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From: jik@athena.mit.edu (Jonathan Isaiah Kamens)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: WRITEing ^D to a file
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Date: 7 Jan 88 00:46:18 GMT
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In article <8801051833.aa28043@SMOKE.BRL.ARPA> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET writes:
>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.

Won't work.  This accomplishes exactly the same thing as typing "PRINT
CHR$(4);..."  However, I, too, have a listing somehwere which will
make ctrl chars come up in inverse.  It's also built into double-take.
And possibly GPLE, although I'm not sure about that.


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