TW wrote:
2010/3/9 Mike McCarty <Mike.McCarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
TW wrote:
[...] I start dosemu like
dosemu -input 'thedosapp.exe\r\^['
because in the readme[1] I'm told that "\^[" is the syntax for the
escape key. At least that's how I interpret the "\^x" section.
[...] I suspect
that you are typing three characters '\', '^', and '['. That
is not the intended action. What is intended is that you type
a BACKSLASH ('\'), and an ESC. The shell displays on your
screen two characters when you type ESC, but that is a single keystroke.
O.K., I'm beginning to understand what you're talking about. Up to
now I didn't really use anything but bash. At least for me, pressing
the escape key (however often) does not display anything, but when
trying sh and dash, I see that pressing ESC "visually" resuts in ^[.
$ set | grep SHELL
SHELL=/bin/bash
SHELLOPTS=braceexpand:emacs:hashall:histexpand:history:interactive-comments:monitor
$ /bin/bash --version
GNU bash, version 2.05b.0(1)-release (i386-redhat-linux-gnu)
Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Perhaps something in SHELLOPTS is different, and modifies that behavior.
And yes, now something like
dosemu -input 'thedosapp.exe\r\^['
indeed works, many thanks for pointing me to this! Unfortunately, for
some reason this only works with the -input switch, but not when
piping, like
echo "keystroke \^[" > dospipe
Please note that "some string" and 'some string' are NOT the same.
However, in this case, I don't see what difference it would make.
(where ^[ is what results from pressing ESC). It doesn't work through
dosctrl or Ruby either. I wonder why this is supported by the -input
switch, but not by the keystroke command...
I may try to find out more, but I believe fixing it (i.e. making the
string representing a piped keystroke sequence is parsed in the same
manner that a keystroke string passed on the command line is) will be
beyond my possibilities.
I'm not ready to throw in the towel. If we keep plugging at it,
I think we can get there.
Thanks for your help!
What do you get when you do this:
$ echo -n "^[" | wc
0 0 1
Do you get the " 0 0 1" output I do? If so, then we can get there.
Or try
$ echo -n '^[' | wc
0 0 1
Mike
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