"Lisa Pearlson" <no@spam.plz> wrote in message news:43043869$0$5028$e4fe514c@dreader11.news.xs4all.nl...
> how can I echo the decimal number 0 instead of the ascii "0" ?
> passthru can do it in response to a shell function. Is there another way?
> does echo pack("C", 0) do it?
>
> Lisa