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From: SPB109@PSUVM.BITNET
Newsgroups: comp.lang.rexx
Subject: control characters
Message-ID: <89313.160443SPB109@PSUVM.BITNET>
Date: 9 Nov 89 21:04:43 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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Hi. How do you print out controll characters in rexx? C allows you
to use the '\' character. Pascal uses CHR(). What does rexx use?
I've tried backslashes in SAY'' but to no avail. The reason I'm asking
is of purely diabolical interest: If it is possible to print out a backspace
 then when you send a message to a user, you can back up to you're user id
and overwrite it. (pretty neat, huh?) Any Ideas or Suggestions would
absolutely stun me. (Who reads this stuff, much less responds?)
oh, well.                         -They call me SpAcE caSe.
                                   (for reasons somewhat evident)