Re: [MacPerl] Mac Control characters

["Jefferson R. Lowrey" <lowrey@mailbag.com>]

At 9:25 AM -0500 3/13/00, Chris Nandor wrote:
>At 14.32 +0200 2000.03.12, miku wrote:
>>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.

On the other hand, if one were to be *really* sick, one could use Mac::Glue
to build a terminal window in the Finder using folders with empty icons and
single character names...

-Jeff Lowrey
I couldn't help it. It just came to me.



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