> Bash's printf appears to ignore the \c backslash escape: This is, as you noted, as Posix specifies.
> When \c is provided via the %b conversion specifier, it is > interpreted: Again, this is as posix specifies. I'm not inclined to change the current behavior. Chet -- ``The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne.'' - Chaucer Chet Ramey, ITS, CWRU [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://tiswww.tis.case.edu/~chet/
