[7100] in Athena Bugs
file does weird things
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Wed Feb 13 01:16:17 1991
From: kkkken@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
Date: Wed, 13 Feb 91 01:16:06 EST
To: bugs@ATHENA.MIT.EDU
The `file' command (/usr/bin/file) does the following weirdness:
/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/kcll/src podge (79) file obj.o
obj.o: mipsel 407 executable not stripped - version 2. ^H10
^^^
what's that? Why does it output a 2, a dot, space, control-H, and
then the 10? This fails with terminal emulators that don't support
control-H as a backspace (such as emacs terminals.)
-ken
