One P.S.: 2010/3/6 TW <zupftom@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > [...] 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, That's of course not really correct, as echo -e "keystroke \\\r" > dospipe does the job, but I hope you understand what I'm trying to say. As I want to pipe the sequences, not the ASCII values, there is no need to use the -e switch, is there? -- 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