Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!DOCKMASTER.ARPA!TMPLee From: TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.ARPA Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: writing ^D in basic Message-ID: <880105045404.684308@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> Date: 5 Jan 88 04:54:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 5 Does anyone know if there is any way in basic (applesoft) under ProDos to get the D$ (chr$(4) or chr$(132)) character written out to a file? I don't have a ProDos basic manual so don't know if there is any trick: neither doubling it nor following it with a carriage return, either of which seems a reasonable escape sequence, works. .