Re: piping escape into dosemu

[Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@sbcglobal.net>]

TW wrote:

[...]

> And yes, now something like
> 
>   dosemu -input 'thedosapp.exe\r\^['
> 
> indeed works, many thanks for pointing me to this!  Unfortunately, for
> some reason this only works with the -input switch, but not when
> piping, like
> 
>   echo "keystroke \^[" > dospipe
> 
> (where ^[ is what results from pressing ESC).  It doesn't work through
> dosctrl or Ruby either.  I wonder why this is supported by the -input
> switch, but not by the keystroke command...

To get back to the use of the echo command...

$ echo -n "\033" | wc
       0       1       4

$ echo -ne "\033" | wc
       0       0       1

This looks like a singe ESC character got sent to the
output, to me.

In fact...

$ echo -ne "\033" | od -x
0000000 001b
0000001

So, od got exactly one character, which was an ESC.

Mike
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