On Tue, Oct 16, 2007 at 04:57:08PM +0530, vibi wrote: > 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. Have a look at the Shift Out and Shift In control characters. regards, Andre - 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