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This is Hacker News? A file with ^G in it makes the terminal play a sound?
by surteen 4y ago
This is Hacker News? A file with ^G in it makes the terminal play a sound?
- GauntletWizard 4y agoThere's a lot of people in today's lucky 10,000[1]. "Terminal Bell" is a rarely used feature nowadays, because we've grown out of it, and yet - It's commonly supported. Hopefully from this a few young hackers will get the itch to go a little deeper into how our terminals are represented. [1]https://xkcd.com/1053/ https://xkcd.com/1053/
- icedchai 4y agoI remember learning about this in the 80's, when I got my first modem.