Date: Friday, 19 April 1985
From: Dick McGee
Re: Z-100 question
>The machine seems unwilling to accept escape sequences, particularly
>the one for enabling auto linewrap which is mentioned only in passing
>in the egredious Z-dos user manual.
I found this technique in REMark, the Heath Users Group Magazine. The
trick is to imbed the escape sequences in a text file and then do a
TYPE filename to invoke the sequence. An undocumented feature of EDLIN
the line editor is that when in the insert mode pressing the F8 key
inserts an ESC ( ^[ is the symbol for ESCape) into the file.
The sequence to invoke wrap is ESCv
The sequence to invoke nowrap is ESCw
A sample EDLIN session is:
A:EDLIN WRAP.<return> (Note the period after WRAP)
EDLIN Version 1.02
New File
*I<return>
1*<F8>v<return>
2*<CNTRL C>
*E
A:TYPE WRAP<return>
A: (line wrapping now on)
Now make a file called NOWRAP substituting w for v
Other sequences are NOCLICK ESCx2
CLICK ESCy2
This is for ZDOS but I have done similar things on the CPM side.
You can use a screen editor if it has the capability of inserting
(usually called quoting) control characters.
