From: Lyle Johnson Date: 2002-08-03T00:14:23+09:00 Subject: Re: A very basic tail -f implementation James F.Hranicky wrote: > Hmmm...I haven't run across "?\n" before -- what does that do? The "?" operator returns the ASCII code of the following character: ?\n --> 10 ?a --> 97 ?A --> 65 HTH, Lyle