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From: ellis@motcid.UUCP (John T Ellis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: escape key
Message-ID: <5087@orchid12.UUCP>
Date: 7 Nov 90 13:18:35 GMT
Reply-To: motcid!ellis@chg.mcd.mot.com (John T Ellis)
Organization: Motorola Inc. - Cellular Infrastructure Div., Arlington Heights, IL 60004
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In article <5679@alpha.cam.nist.gov> coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) writes: 

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>When I issue the command, I get back the string ^[]l\!*^[\ 
>not the pwd in the header.
>
>How do you issue that escape string?

Here is what I use in my .cshrc file:

	alias cd 'cd \!* ; set l = `dirs` ; echo -n "^[]l$l^[\"; unset $l;'

It sounds to me as if your system is not interpreting the escape sequence
properly.  When you enter this, either at the command line or in some script
file, do the following:

     1. ctrl V         
     2. escape        esc
     3. right bracket ]
     4. small l       l
     5. dollar l      $l
     6. ctrl V 
     7. backslash     \


This should work.  If it doesn't, let me know and I'll try and work something
else out.

Regards.

John
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