From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!info-vax Newsgroups: fa.info-vax Title: Escape characters in .COM files Article-I.D.: ucbvax.8180 Posted: Mon Aug 2 08:52:18 1982 Received: Tue Aug 3 01:09:36 1982 >From Harvard@CMU-10A Mon Aug 2 08:36:05 1982 Here's one way of getting escape characters into DCL command files: $ esc[0,7]=27 $ cl*ear :== "write sys$output ""''esc'[2J''esc'[1;1H""" Thereafter, typing "cl" to DCL will clear the screen on a VT100 in ANSI mode. R.M. Chavez (rmc@mit-mc)