| I always liked the 'ascii' command that was in Amdahl UTS (something). | ascii bel nl cr ff c-a m-e c a t How about the Unix "printf" command? ; printf \a\n\r\f\001\205cat | I should write it, just so I can get rid of the | nl=' | ' Actually, that's probably my favorite thing about rc and sh: they don't go insane over innocuous newlines.