Thanks. This makes a lot of sense.

Bart Schaefer wrote, On 02/02/2006 05:58 PM:

> On Feb 2,  2:41pm, Zvi Har'El wrote:
> }
> } The explanation explains everything, except the percent sign. BTW,
> } In my case, I see a reverse-video percent sign printed. What does it
> } mean?
>
> It means "this was the end of the output before the prompt was printed."
> It's so that you can tell it was the shell that took over at that point,
> rather than that some other process output something it wasn't meant to.
>   

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