filepro menus and Ctrl-S - maybe Anzio setting?

Fairlight fairlite at fairlite.com
Mon Dec 6 15:28:27 PST 2010


Confusious (Bruce Easton) say:
> Using 'vim -b' - I believe it's showing as a control character - It 
> jumps from the ^ to after the F for '^F' at the beginning of a menu file 
> that shows '^F' at the very beginning.

That's a control-S alright.

But, as Ken indicated, it's just used in the format of the menu files.
It's not functionally acting as XOFF.  It's like using ^A as a delimiter
between fields in some programs, or the convention of replacing colons in
processing tables with ^A.  Same thing.  Harmless.

mark->
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