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From: coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: escape key
Message-ID: <5679@alpha.cam.nist.gov>
Date: 6 Nov 90 20:38:08 GMT
Organization: National Institute of Standards & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
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According to the console man pages, you can issue 
certain escape sequences to do various things to the
screen. Is there a way to issue an escape sequence from
the keyboard or is it soley used for programming such as
termcap?

In the SUNVIEW beginners guide, there are some tty 
escape sequences that you can issue using the echo command.

For instance, it states that to put the present path 
in the header of the window, you type
echo -n "^[]l\!*^[\" pwd.

When I issue the command, I get back the string ^[]l\!*^[\ 
not the pwd in the header.

How do you issue that escape string?


Sean Coleman
NIST
Boulder, CO

coleman@bldrdoc.gov