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From: dickmc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Dick McGee )
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Subject: Re: Z-100 question
Message-ID: <10062@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Date: Fri, 19-Apr-85 07:15:49 EST
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Posted: Fri Apr 19 07:15:49 1985
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Reply-To: dickmc@brl-tgr.ARPA (Dick McGee (MMW) <dickmc>)
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>The machine seems unwilling to
>accept escape sequences, particularly the one for enabling auto linewrap
>which is mentioned only in passing in the egredious Z-dos user manual.


I found this technique in REMark, the Heath Users Group Magazine.
The trick is to imbed the escape sequences in a text file and then
do a TYPE filename to invoke the sequence. An undocumented feature
of EDLIN the line editor is that when in the insert mode pressing
the F8 key inserts an ESC ( ^[ is the symbol for ESCape) into the file.

The sequence to invoke wrap is ESCv
The sequence to invoke nowrap is ESCw

A sample EDLIN session is:

A:EDLIN WRAP.<return>       (Note the period after WRAP)
EDLIN Version 1.02 
New File
*I<return>
      1*<F8>v<return>
      2*<CNTRL C>
*E
A:TYPE WRAP<return>
A:                           (line wrapping now on)

Now make a file called NOWRAP substituting w for v

Other sequences are NOCLICK   ESCx2
                      CLICK   ESCy2

This is for ZDOS but I have done similar things on the CPM side.
You can use a screen editor if it has the capability of inserting
(usually called quoting) control characters.

Richard McGee, USA BRL
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