Wirt Atmar wrote:

> >  > I am trying for a method to display some job variables on the
> >  > screen when the job is streamed. I can use TELL command but I
> >  > dont want this string  " FROM J1218/" preceeding my displays
> >  > and messages
>
> Another way to do this is would be to put an [esc]G[esc]K (move
> cursor to left margin, clear remainder of line from that point) at
> the beginning of everyone of your TELL messages. [...]
> Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to work. Although on-line help says
> that the message may be "consisting of any string of ASCII
> characters", the escape character is being translated into a simple
> space by some process along the line, before it gets to the
> terminal/console.

The display enhancement sequence <esc>&d[enhancement-code] is allowed
but that's the only one that I know of.

Jeff Kell <[log in to unmask]>