From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: ralph@inputplus.co.uk (Ralph Corderoy)
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2017 16:48:22 +0000
Subject: [TUHS] Literal character escapes in v7
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Hi Will,

> I can't seem to make a backspace character

dc(1) is handy for unhexdump.

    $ echo 16i4108666F6F0AP | dc | sed -n l
    A\bfoo$
    $

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