In message <Pine.NEB.4.33.0112181759010.22963-100000@chylonia.3miasto.net>, Woj
ciech Puchar writes:
>>
>> Yes, I believe you can:
>>
>> b154$ echo -n '\0\01\0177\0200\0377' | od -c
>> 0000000   \0 001 177 200 377
>>
>
>od is external program
>

I used 'od' to show the output of 'echo -n', to show that I could 
generate binary characters.

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