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ENTERING NON-PRINTABLE CHARACTERS
In quite a few instances while using Telix, the user must
specify a string to be sent out over the modem port. Sometimes
this string must contain characters which can not be printed
on the screen, for example, control characters, and even
pauses. There has to be a way of indicating these special
characters, and it is done through the use of special characters
called translation characters. When these translation
characters are encountered in an output string they are trans-
lated into other characters. The default translation charac-
ters are:
^ - when this character is encountered in an output
string it will make the following character a con-
trol character. For example, ^A will send out the
code for Control-A. A few common control characters
are ^M, which is the Carriage Return character, ^J,
which is the Line Feed character, and ^[, which is
the Esc character. To send out the ^ character it-
self, use two ^'s, as explained above.
~ - when this character is encountered it will make
Telix pause for 1/2 a second. There is no way to
send the actual ~ character out. Two in a row will
be converted to two pauses.
There is one thing to keep in mind. These characters are only
translated on strings sent out to the modem, for example, the
dialing prefix, the hang-up string, a keyboard macro, the mo-
dem initialization string, and a few other cases.
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