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Re: [Groff] [Heirloom] bug in '.if' string comparison tests


From: Tadziu Hoffmann
Subject: Re: [Groff] [Heirloom] bug in '.if' string comparison tests
Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2014 21:19:03 +0200
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15)

> But does anyone know what does this character means, and why
> does it seems to be prefered to other control characters ?

It's the "bell" character.  On output, it rings the terminal
bell, but doesn't have any other side effects.

Try this in bash:

  echo -e '\007'

(octal 007 is ASCII BEL).  Your terminal should beep.





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