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From: cfchiesa@bsu-cs.UUCP (Christopher F. Chiesa)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: Including <ESC> in an EDT search string. How?
Message-ID: <1426@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 5-Nov-87 20:30:45 EST
Article-I.D.: bsu-cs.1426
Posted: Thu Nov  5 20:30:45 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Nov-87 14:03:10 EST
References: <14rrk@byuvax.bitnet>
Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
Lines: 27
Summary: They work for me...

In article <14rrk@byuvax.bitnet>, rrk@byuvax.bitnet writes:
> The other answers I have seen do not work.  

My job requires that I explain complex VMS VaxCluster and other concepts to a 
community of people with little or no computer knowledge, yet who want to be
able to perform sophisticated operations after five minutes' instruction.  I
deal constantly with communication gaps, and that's what we may have here...

When the posted solutions about substituting the ESC character said 

"... place in a buffer the command string

SUB /<ESC>/whatever/ W       ..."

notational misunderstandings may have been generated.  You are not meant to
type "slash, less-than, E, S, C, greater-than, slash" into the buffer, but 
rather "the ESC key twice, which will insert the ESCape character which is
displayed as <ESC>"

If that was what you did, don't take it badly; zillions of people HERE do
much the same all the time (one fellow had his Mail in a directory called
[.DIRECTORYNAME] "because that's what it said in the HELP file..."). 

If you did it the right way, I'm curious as to what else you did along with
it, to cause the scheme not to work?

Chris Chiesa, Senior, CS Dept., Ball State University, Muncie, IN