I kind of lost the thread of your code, so pardon my starting from scratch.

To generate a string containing control or other
not-easy-to-specify-in-Transact characters:
1)      define an I(4,0,2), or similar, item with two X(1) children
2)      stuff your special value into the I item as a numeric value
3)      extract the *second* child field as a character

For example
define(item)   ctrl   I(4,0,2):
               cc2    X(1)=ctrl(2);
<<other definitions/declarations left as an exercise for the reader>>
let (ctrl) = 27;
move (string) = (cc2) + "&dC" + "This is blinking";
display string,nohead;

The ASCII value for the double quote character is 34 (decimal).


Steve

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