Re: ALERT.ACC

[Wolfgang Lux <lux@heidelbg.ibm.com>]

> 
> 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.

Just use the system call Salert to send a message to /pipe/alert. If
no process is reading /pipe/alert the string will be written to the
standard output of MiNT.

> 
> 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).

Some echo's require an additional flag (I think its -e) to recognize
and process escape sequences.

Wolfgang

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