Wirt writes after Jeff:

>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 researched this many years ago & found that only display enhancements were
allowed ("ESC&dC" etc.)  Turns out this was done to prevent malicious message
being sent to the system console followed by ESC+"d" which emulates hitting the
ENTER key which would transmit the line as if typed in at the console.

I guess they were guys like Art (hehe) around back then too ;-) (sorry Art,
couldn't' resist...)

RAT

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