Hi Brian

I can achieve it with Ray's control character or paste it from another
application.  This does not work from TCL, but does work in an execute
command within a program as demonstrated below, allowing a user to get to
operating system commands.

Regards
David Jordan
> 
> If you had a program such as example below
> 
> ED BP TEST.BREAK
> 3 lines long.
> 
> ----: P
> 0001: PRINT "ENTER NAME ":
> 0002: INPUT NAME
> 0003: EXECUTE "LIST VOC ":NAME
> Bottom at line 3.
> 
> 
> >RUN BP TEST.BREAK
> ENTER NAME ctl-^DOS /c DIR
> 
> It will list the VOC then execute the DOS command DIR.   In Unix the SH
> shell command would probably do the same.
> 
> There are security measures that can be taken to mitigate this.  Using the
> voc security routine, Cleaning control characters out of inputted data.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> David Jordan
> 
> Managing Consultant
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