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Re: Control the cygwin terminal with escape sequences
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Philippe Verdret <philippe dot verdret at xps-pro dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com, <cygwin-xfree at cygwin dot com>
- Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 10:51:31 -0500 (EST)
- Subject: Re: Control the cygwin terminal with escape sequences
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On Mon, 3 Mar 2003, Philippe Verdret wrote:
> Hi,
>
> i want to control the cygwin terminal with escape sequences generated
> by a Perl program.
>
> I can clear the screen with the echo command:
> % echo -e "\033[H\033[J"
>
> but if i write a small inline perl program, i can't:
>
> % perl -e 'print "\033[H\033[J"'
>
> This doesn't work even if i put the screen in 'raw mode' without echo
> (with system('stty -echo raw') in the perl program).
>
> Can you help me?
>
> Philippe
And answering:
Philippe,
Works for me (using cygwin-1.3.20, bash-2.05b-8 and perl-5.6.1)... You
might want to report your problem properly, as described in
<http://cygwin.com/bugs.html>. Also, check that your perl one-liner
outputs exactly the right sequence (by piping it to "od -c", for example).
Igor
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