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- ^
-
- This character (called a circumflex accent, or a hat) is used in conjunction
- with a capital letter (A through Z) to display a control character on the
- screen. For example, a control S might be displayed as ^S, or as S^. See the
- CTRL_KEY definition for information about entering control characters from
- the keyboard. See the ASCII 000-031 definition for a list of the control
- characters.
-
- ^ in a command line will causes the next input character to be treated as
- text (in OS/2 only), whatever that character may be. For example, ^> will
- NOT cause redirection to occur, since the ">" after the "^" is treated as
- just another text character, rather than the redirection symbol. Since the
- "^" can be used to escape the normal consequences associated with using
- another character, OS/2 documents call it an "escape" character. It should
- not be confused with ASCII 027, the ESC control character.