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Old 06-10-2011
ASCII Character Set

I thought I would point this out. This has a lot of the non printing characters.

ASCII Character Set
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Old 06-10-2011
You can find a pretty complete set on wikipedia too.
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Old 06-10-2011
On *BSD (and I'm fairly sure on Linux as well, dont' know about the commercial Unices) there's always `man ascii`, which can be useful in a pinch.

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Alister
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Old 06-10-2011
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Originally Posted by alister
On *BSD (and I'm fairly sure on Linux as well, dont' know about the commercial Unices) there's always `man ascii`, which can be useful in a pinch.
No 'man ascii' on my Linux but Neo seems to have it. Man Page for ascii (Linux Section 7) - The UNIX and Linux Forums It may not be common.
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Old 06-10-2011
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Originally Posted by Corona688
No 'man ascii' on my Linux but Neo seems to have it. Man Page for ascii (Linux Section 7) - The UNIX and Linux Forums It may not be common.
I don't know from what distro that came, but my Linux (CentOS 5) has it.

According to the man page on my Mac (which also has it):
Code:
HISTORY
     An ascii manual page appeared in Version 7 AT&T UNIX.

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Old 06-10-2011
The ascii man page is on our version of Sun too. SunOS dw-d 5.8 Generic_117350-33 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-480R
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Old 06-10-2011
In Solaris and HPUX there is also /usr/pub/ascii available. Not sure about other systems.
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