From: Josh Huber <huber+dated+1028732200.6ccc24@...>
Date: 2002-08-02T23:56:44+09:00
Subject: Re: A very basic tail -f implementation

"James F.Hranicky" <jfh@cise.ufl.edu> writes:

> Hmmm...I haven't run across "?\n" before -- what does that do?

It returns the character code for the following character:

irb(main):005:0> ?A
65
irb(main):006:0> ?B
66
irb(main):007:0> ?C
67

-- 
Josh Huber