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From: dr@ski.UUCP (David Robins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: WRITEing ^D to a file
Message-ID: <2417@ski.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jan 88 19:07:46 GMT
Reply-To: dr@unix.UUCP (David Robins)
Organization: Smith-Kettlewell Institute, S.F., CA.
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In article <> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET writes:
>
> 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.

In both DOS 3.3 and ProDOS, inserting a "^D" in a PRINT statement, as
above, will be interpreted as a ^D, and with stop writing to the file.
Any PRINT statement following the goes to the screen rather than to
the file.  That is, both interpreters look for the ^D character, and
take it to be a command intended for them.

As I posted yesterday, I think you have to use a dummy character, and
then go back with a sector editor and replace that character with a
control-D.
-- 
					-dave

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