[MacPerl] Mac Control characters

[miku <miku@tgsh.de>]

Title: [MacPerl] Mac Control characters

>Can somebody point me to a list with Macintosh printed control characters
>for MacPerl, e.g. \b for backspace, \a for alarm... ? In particular, I'm
>looking for the control characters for moving the text cursor one place to
>the right, left, up and down without altering the character written on the
>screen underneath the cursor.

There are none.  The MacPerl window is not a terminal.  It is just a window
of text.

Thanks for the reply. But - if there are no control characters and the MacPerl window is not a terminal emulation, then why do "\b" (backspace) and "\a" work properly (as under Unix) when printed? Now I am really curious: are "\b" and "\a" the only control characters that work in the mere text window of MacPerl?

Michael