Hi, Quoting Doru Petrescu (pdoruat_private): > 2. Can someone explain to me what is happening ? > is this a bug in the kernel code that handles terminal output ? can we > make it do something else ? (like overwriting memory, etc ...) These are just regular escape characters; the same kind that allow colors in your shell, character movement, more intelligent drawing. Lots of things you can do with that. Most unix tools have safeguards to disallow execution of arbitrary escape sequences; you will probably find this doesn't work in emails as well. 'mutt' and 'pine' for example, will not carelessly echo these. The same kind of sequences are used by some textmode irc clients, and even mpg123, to change xterm titles. Greets, Robert -- Linux Generation encrypted mail preferred. finger rvdmat_private for my GnuPG/PGP key. Insanity is hereditary. You get it from your kids.
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