On Wed, 18 Feb 2004, Patrick Welche wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 12:04:08AM +0000, David Laight wrote:
> > Fot portability use printf(1) - which is a builtin in netbsd /bin/sh.
>
> There I was surpised that printf "%c" 65 gets me 6, not A, but it is
> what it says in the man page.. any idea how to do int <-> char conversion
> in a script?

Well, if you can live with octal, just do

printf "\nnn"

	Johnny

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