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From: [e-mail] (Zefram)
Subject: Re: "c" question.
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Date: Thu, 15 Feb 1996 21:54:36 GMT

William Donald Peterson III  <[e-mail]> wrote:
>I have a question.  I was wondering if anybody knows how to display a
>character that is not on the keyboard, but is in the alphabet.  For
>example, if I wanted to "printf" the 129th ascii character.

printf("%c",129);

is the most literal interpretation of your request.  In general,
character 129 can be represented as \201 in string and character
constants, so

printf("\201");

is legal.

-zefram