Hi Pierre-Jean, > I've recently seen the usage of the ^G character as field separator. > That is a good idea, since it should avoid most possible conflicts > with user input. But does anyone know what does this character means, > and why does it seems to be prefered to other control characters ?
See ascii(7), as others have said, and 10.1 in http://troff.org/54.pdf around where it says In addition, STX, ETX, ENQ, ACK, and BEL are accepted, and may be used as delimiters... Cheers, Ralph.
