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From: jrv@siemens.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: How do you ring bell in DCL file?
Message-ID: <154@siemens.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 29-Apr-87 12:32:37 EDT
Article-I.D.: siemens.154
Posted: Wed Apr 29 12:32:37 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 1-May-87 01:07:04 EDT
Reply-To: jrv@siemens.UUCP (James R Vallino)
Organization: Siemens Research & Technology Laboratory
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I would like to have the terminal bell rung from within a DCL command
file.  Is there a way to specify control characters within a string
used with a 'write sys$output' statement? Can the control character be
entered "raw" into the string or is there a character escape mechanism?

I tried everything I could think of and didn't see anything in the orange
wall of manuals. Right now I 'type' a file which has a single bell character
in it.

Thanks.
Jim Vallino
Siemens Research and Technology Lab.
Princeton, NJ
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