Thus it was written in the epistle of Wirt Atmar,
>
> 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. In that manner, the "FROM J1218/" would
> appear and then instantly be erased from your screen before the remainder of
> the text message is written on the line.
>
> 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.

I had thought of doing the same thing (conceptually) using ascii 8's (^H's).
I'm no CI expert, but I believe it's possible to set a variable to hold the
^H's and then include the value of that variable at the beginning of your
:TELL.  That should work despite the Esc ban, I think.

Ted
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Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Serv, Southern Adventist University
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