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From: garvey@blic.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: How do you ring bell in DCL file?
Message-ID: <102@blic.BLI.COM>
Date: Thu, 30-Apr-87 13:03:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: blic.102
Posted: Thu Apr 30 13:03:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 2-May-87 01:38:17 EDT
References: <154@siemens.UUCP>
Organization: Britton Lee, Los Gatos, CA
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Summary: binary overlay for assigning a symbol non-printing ASCII chars

In article <154@siemens.UUCP>, jrv@siemens.UUCP (James R Vallino) writes:
> 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?

This is an example of how that could be done:
	$ esc_chr[0,8] == %O033
	$ clear == "WRITE SYS$OUTPUT esc_chr,""[H"",esc_chr,""[2J"""

It was done in this way so that showing the symbol `clear' would not
clear the terminal screen and would display the actual escape sequence.
-- 
Robert Garvey
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