hi, can any one tell me the reason why the command prompt in the terminal window get scrambled when a character with ascii value 14 is printed out. thanks in advance. regards vibi sreenivasan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html