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Subject: WRITEing ^D to a file
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Date: 5 Jan 88 23:33:00 GMT
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 TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.arpa writes...
>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.  .

I've never tried to do that, what happens if you enclose ^D in quotes?
as in:

100 PRINT "^D"  where the ^D is typed from the keyboard (somewhere I've
    got a routine that'll make the ^D appear as an inverse D in response
    to the LIST command.

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