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From: mark@ncsu.UUCP (Mark Lanzo)
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Subject: Re: problem with escape codes to the printer
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Date: Fri, 13-Jun-86 21:51:00 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jun 13 21:51:00 1986
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For that matter, I did not seem to have any success printing escape codes to 
screen either when using BASIC.  Attempts to print the escape character just
put a little square symbol up.  Apparently the writers of AmigaBasic didn't 
seem fit to support the standard console device driver (?).
I believe certain other control characters also printed the box symbol.
Oddly enough, some things were allowed through though.  A ctrl-L caused a 
clear screen, for instance.  

I admit that I haven't used the BASIC much though (I was just playing with
it at the time...I usually do my hacking in C), so maybe I just didn't know
what I was doing.  Still, I should think "PRINT CHR$(27)" should have given
me an escape char, not a box.

Any suggestions?  (polite ones please :-)