coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) (11/07/90)
According to the console man pages, you can issue certain escape sequences to do various things to the screen. Is there a way to issue an escape sequence from the keyboard or is it soley used for programming such as termcap? In the SUNVIEW beginners guide, there are some tty escape sequences that you can issue using the echo command. For instance, it states that to put the present path in the header of the window, you type echo -n "^[]l\!*^[\" pwd. When I issue the command, I get back the string ^[]l\!*^[\ not the pwd in the header. How do you issue that escape string? Sean Coleman NIST Boulder, CO coleman@bldrdoc.gov
ellis@motcid.UUCP (John T Ellis) (11/07/90)
In article <5679@alpha.cam.nist.gov> coleman@cam.nist.gov (Sean Sheridan Coleman X5672) writes: [text deleted] > >When I issue the command, I get back the string ^[]l\!*^[\ >not the pwd in the header. > >How do you issue that escape string? Here is what I use in my .cshrc file: alias cd 'cd \!* ; set l = `dirs` ; echo -n "^[]l$l^[\"; unset $l;' It sounds to me as if your system is not interpreting the escape sequence properly. When you enter this, either at the command line or in some script file, do the following: 1. ctrl V 2. escape esc 3. right bracket ] 4. small l l 5. dollar l $l 6. ctrl V 7. backslash \ This should work. If it doesn't, let me know and I'll try and work something else out. Regards. John -- -------------------------------+------------------------------------------------ John T. Ellis 708-632-7857 | Line Printer paper is strongest Motorola Cellular | at the perforations. motcid!ellis@chg.mcd.mot.com |