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- Date: Friday, 19 April 1985
- From: Dick McGee
- Re: Z-100 question
-
- >The machine seems unwilling to accept escape sequences, particularly
- >the one for enabling auto linewrap which is mentioned only in passing
- >in the egredious Z-dos user manual.
-
- I found this technique in REMark, the Heath Users Group Magazine. The
- trick is to imbed the escape sequences in a text file and then do a
- TYPE filename to invoke the sequence. An undocumented feature of EDLIN
- the line editor is that when in the insert mode pressing the F8 key
- inserts an ESC ( ^[ is the symbol for ESCape) into the file.
-
- The sequence to invoke wrap is ESCv
- The sequence to invoke nowrap is ESCw
-
- A sample EDLIN session is:
-
- A:EDLIN WRAP.<return> (Note the period after WRAP)
- EDLIN Version 1.02
- New File
- *I<return>
- 1*<F8>v<return>
- 2*<CNTRL C>
- *E
- A:TYPE WRAP<return>
- A: (line wrapping now on)
-
- Now make a file called NOWRAP substituting w for v
-
- Other sequences are NOCLICK ESCx2
- CLICK ESCy2
-
- This is for ZDOS but I have done similar things on the CPM side.
- You can use a screen editor if it has the capability of inserting
- (usually called quoting) control characters.
-
- Richard McGee
-