From: Cookie Rubster <lists@...>
Date: 2012-09-14T08:46:45+09:00
Subject: Re: \b not working?

Thanks for your reply!

I'm on a Mac, running Aptana Studio 3. Does that help?

Cheers

Matthew Kerwin wrote in post #1075924:
> On 14 September 2012 09:24, Cookie Rubster <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
>> end
>> Jeff
> In short: it depends where you're printing it.
>
> The raw bytes streaming from your program's $stdout stream include a
> bunch of digits (value 0x30 to 0x39) and the odd "\b" (0x08).  It's up
> to the terminal/console/etc. that receives them and formats them for
> display to interpret the 0x08-bytes the way you intended.
>
> Where are you running said script? (Which operating system, terminal
> emulator, etc.?)

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