[BRLTTY] Appending NUL to cat

[james collins]

Just wondering what I am doing wrong? I want to use cat, but I want to  
append a NUL character to what I type? I tried typing:
echo -e -n '\000' | cat > /dev/cu.usbserial -FTKVMAFF
What I was hoping would happen, is my cursor would drop down a line  
and I would be in the cat command, I would then right some text and  
when I hit return, a NUL character would be appended to the text I had  
written and my synthesizer would speak the words I had written? But  
when I hit return I just get a new shell prompt? I tried typing:
echo -n -e '\000' then hit return
then typed:
cat > /dev/cu.usbserial-FTKVMAFF
but when I enter text my synthesizer doesen't speak? Wondering what I  
am doing wrong?

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On Sep 28, 2009, at 10:14 AM, Dave Mielke <dave at mielke.cc> wrote:

> [quoted lines by james collins on 2009/09/28 at 09:48 -0400]
>
>> $ echo $'\00' | cat
>
> echo -n -e '\000'
>
> -n means don't append a newline.
> -e means recognize special escape sequences.
>
> See the man page for your shell (probably bash).
>
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