Thanks all for your effort to help me! I accidentally didn't reply to the list, so here it is again: 2010/3/11 Alain Mouette <alainm@xxxxxxxxx>: > > > To make sure that it works allways the same, use explicit external: > > $ /bin/echo -ne "\033" | od -x > 0000000 001b > 0000001 > It does. So back to my original problem: I want to achieve the same effect that I can with dosemu -input 'thedosapp.exe\r\^[' The actual byte sequence that sh passes to dosemu as argument after -input is 74 68 65 64 6f 73 61 70 70 2e 65 78 65 5c 72 5c 1b I can get the exact same byte sequence with /bin/echo -n 'thedosapp.exe\r\[' For the keystroke command that's piped I need a newline at the end, so I omit -n and use /bin/echo 'keystroke thedosapp.exe\r\^[' > dospipe Everything gets through except for the ESC. I guess this is the end of the song. Alain suggested later: 2010/3/11 Alain Mouette <alainm@xxxxxxxxx>: > > Have you tried using 2 ESCs ? maybe you get one at the other ent... this > happens so many linux programas... > > Unfortunately still no success. I suspect the string that's piped is parsed somewhat differently from the string that's passed on the command line, and this can only be fixed in the source code. Thomas Weber -- 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
