Quoted from peter theobald: > On the old Apple II, there were escape codes you could embed into > a printable string that would position the cursor, write a command, > and then cause that line on the screen to be executed. > Ie: executable mail! On the old Apple II, it was the only way to execute disk commands. PRINT CHR$(4); "CATALOG" is the directory command (Apple II basic didn't include disk commands as part of the language--it was intercepted by the console print routine).