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From: steve@ondine.uucp (Steve Jenkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: PDP-11 ESCape Problems with RSTS/E
Message-ID: <83@ucla-an.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 10:51:17 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucla-an.83
Posted: Fri Sep 18 10:51:17 1987
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Organization: UCLA Dept of Anesthesiology, Los Angeles, California
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Keywords: PDP-11, RSTS/E, BASIC-PLUS

In article <1158@bsu-cs.UUCP> mithomas@bsu-cs.UUCP (Michael Thomas Niehaus) writes:
>
>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.  [ ... ]
>					Michael Niehaus


I remember getting around the same problem in RT-11 by sending ASCII
code 155 (128 + 27) instead.  Setting the MSB 'escaped' the escape and
prevented the translation.  The bit is stripped off on output.

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