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From: jdc@naucse.UUCP (John Campbell)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.edu,comp.sys.dec
Subject: DAL (a stupid language on VMS)
Message-ID: <516@naucse.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-Dec-87 21:02:58 EST
Article-I.D.: naucse.516
Posted: Wed Dec  2 21:02:58 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 6-Dec-87 08:06:49 EST
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona
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Keywords: VMS, DAL, Keypad Reading
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We're stuck.  We are trying to use Digital's Authoring Language (DAL)
on VMS and we want to read keypad keystrokes.  There is an example
in the manual that we can not get to work.  All attempts to use
the DAL INPUT facility (a terminal read routine) have failed to
put escape sequences into the proper string descriptor (RESPONSE).

Does anyone out there have a piece of DAL code that uses INPUT or
QUERY and can find keypad or cursor key strings?

Sorry to turn to the net, but what the heck...


John Campbell         ...arizona!naucse!jdc

Unix?  Sure give me a dozen, all different colors.