Q: pressing of space necessary after "~"?

[Igor Pechtchanski]

On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Heiko Nardmann wrote:

> I am looking for a reason why I have to press space after pressing "~" to get
> the "~" shown.
>
> Any idea?
> - --
> Heiko Nardmann

Heiko,

Are you using ssh?  Read the ssh man page, especially the section on the
escape character.
	Igor
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