Re: ALERT.ACC

[Xav <MBGE4MDC@fs1.ee.man.ac.uk>]

Does anyone know if it's possible to send a message to ALERT, for it 
to appear as an alert within MTOS, and if so, how would I do it? I 
want to be able to do it from a shell command - I've tried echo'ing 
to /pipe/alert in several different formats, but to no avail.

Whilst I'm on the subject of echo'ing, can someone tell me how I'm 
supposed to echo a character, based on it's ASCII value. I tried the 
method mentioned in my Unix reference book, but it just echo'd the 
control string itself. I tried with and without quotes. Essentially I 
want to send a string to clear the screen (or TOSWIN pty).

Cheers,

Xav

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