Hi Mike, > From: Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > $ man echo > > [...] > > -e enable interpretation of the backslash-escaped > characters > listed below > sorry if I totally misinterpret your post, but I think I do *not* want to enable the escaped characters because the keystroke command obviously expects to read the escape sequence, not the ascii value that results from it. Otherwise you would for example not be able to send a carriage return, i.e. echo "keystroke \r" > dospipe results in a carriage return in dosemu while echo -e "keystroke \r" > dospipe does not. I'm just using echo here because it's easily reproducible by everyone. I'm successfully using Ruby to remote control dosemu, but I can't pipe the escape key for the named reasons, neither through echo nor Ruby or whatever I may chose. Maybe there is a syntax that allows me to pipe ASCII codes (e.g. 27 or hex 1B or octal 033 for the escape key) into Dosemu, but I can't find it anywhere. The readme says something about \^[: \^x <Ctrl>x, where X is one of the usual C,M,L,[ ... (e.g.: \^[ == <Ctrl>[ == ESC ) but I don't have luck with this. I tried several escape sequences that could possibly be used, like \0x1B, \x1B, \033, \0033, still nothing. What am I missing?? Thomas W. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html