ok all, thanks for the help... got it working now. It was the \e I needed. I discoverd that my telnet client was seending other charecters to pico so I just disabled that function and it worked.
MvH Nallen On Thu, 4 Apr 2002, Chad Simmons wrote: > > --- Jason Gauthier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just because they are displayed correctly, doesn't make them right. > > Escape characters must be entered into the code itself. > > > > Did you copy and paste these, manually type them or what? > > > > You need to replace the "^[" with the escape sequence. > > And that... will depend on your editor. > > > > since I use an emacs clone I can tell you for emacs-en its: > > `-ESC > > > > backtick, then the escape key. > > Or alternatively you could use the \033 or \x1B escape sequences in the string > which would be easier on your editor. There's also the \e escape sequence if > you are using a more modern compiler. All of these sequences will evaluate by > the compiler into the ESC character. > > ~Kender > > ===== > -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- > Version 3.1 > GCS/L/C/O d-(+) s++:+ a-- C+++$>++++ UBLS++++$ > P+++(--)$ L++>+++ E--- W+>++$ N !o K? w(--) !O > M- !V PS+ PE(++) Y+ PGP->+ t- 5 X+() R(+) tv+@ > b++(+++) !DI+++ D G(-) e>+++$ h---() r+++ y+++ > ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------ > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > -- > ROM mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.rom.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/rom >

