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From: kuo@skatter.UUCP (Dr. Peter Kuo)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: How do you ring bell in DCL file?
Message-ID: <312@skatter.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 9-May-87 19:28:31 EDT
Article-I.D.: skatter.312
Posted: Sat May  9 19:28:31 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 10-May-87 18:45:53 EDT
References: <154@siemens.UUCP>
Organization: Accelerator Lab, Saskatoon, Sask.
Lines: 22
Summary: have you tried...

In article <154@siemens.UUCP>, jrv@siemens.UUCP 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?

Have you tried putting in the ^G using EDT (using the special character insert
mode) when building your DCL command file (8-) ? It works fine.


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