From: Joseph Huber [huber@NIRWANA-mppmu.mpg.de] Sent: Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:26 AM To: Info-VAX@Mvb.Saic.Com Subject: Re: non printable characters In article <4510589a$0$572$b45e6eb0@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu>, "Joe the Aroma" writes: > How would I go about sending the non-printable characters for "down arrow" > and "the gold key" into a VMS command file? I've figured that "^I" seems to > be the "do" character. > As Hoff mentioned, You need some program which returns a single keystroke (which effectively is an ANSI or DEC escape sequence in case of cursor or auxiliary keypad keys) from sys$command: (or TT: or sys$input if not in a command file). One such freeware program is my TASTE utility, find it at http://wwwvms.mppmu.mpg.de/~huber/util/main/ This program uses SMG$ to get the key, and returns it in a DCL symbol. -- Joseph Huber , Muenchen,Germany: http://www.huber-joseph.de/