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From: mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: PDP-11 ESCape Problems with RSTS/E
Message-ID: <1158@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 22:01:13 EDT
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1158
Posted: Thu Sep 17 22:01:13 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 19-Sep-87 18:30:19 EDT
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
Lines: 18
Keywords: PDP-11, RSTS/E, BASIC-PLUS


I have been having problems with a BASIC-PLUS program on a PDP-11 running
RSTS/E Version 7.  I have been trying to output an ESC code (ASCII 27) to
the terminal to begin an escape code to place the VT100 into the DEC Spec-
ial Graphics character set.  However, the wonderful RSTS/E operating system
converts all ESC characters (as far as I can tell) to '$', which do me very
little good.  I have tried using PRINT, OPEN/MODE/PRINT#, OPEN/MODE/FIELD/
PUT, and other variations with different values for MODE, but I either could
not get rid of the '$' or I would get unpredictable 'junk'.  Can anyone help?
I would greatly appreciate any help provided.

					Michael Niehaus
					..!bsu-cs!mithomas
					(Ball State U., Muncie, IN)

P.S.  Maybe I could find it myself but the people who I am doing the work
      for won't trust me with a programmer's manual.  And I'm not going to
      pay $80 to get one from DEC.