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From: arnold@skeeve.com (arnold@skeeve.com)
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2017 01:08:06 -0700
Subject: [TUHS] Literal character escapes in v7
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Will Senn <will.senn at gmail.com> wrote:

> I wrote a c program to print a string in line with the suggestion to use 
> awk and my code worked, but it's still odd that the above didn't work.

The V7 awk was really primitive. Another idea that occurred to me:

	stty erase #

and then you can enter a literal backspace on the command line.

HTH,

Arnold