From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andre Haupt Subject: Re: shell getting scrambled while printing out ascii 14 Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 15:12:21 +0200 Message-ID: <20071016131221.GA20751@ahaupt-debian-vm.localdomain> References: <1192534028.2728.4.camel@root> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1192534028.2728.4.camel@root> Sender: linux-c-programming-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: vibi Cc: linux-c-programming@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 04:57:08PM +0530, vibi wrote: > hi, > can any one tell me the reason why the command prompt in the terminal > window get scrambled when a character with ascii value 14 is printed > out. Have a look at the Shift Out and Shift In control characters. regards, Andre