Re: Xterm OSC not working inside screen

[Michael Schroeder]

On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 03:00:19PM +1000, Dennis McGregor wrote:
> $ echo -n "\eP\e]4;1;?\007\e\\" 
> works for me.
> 
> from the manual: Virtual Terminal->Control Sequences:
>      ESC P  (A)     Device Control String
>                     Outputs a string directly to the host
>                     terminal without interpretation.
> 
> and I'm not sure why, but while in xterm this works when ending the string 
> with 
> either BEL ( \007 ) *or* ST ( \e\ ), in screen it seems to require both...

The \e\\ ends the ESC P sequence you send to screen, the \007 ends
the sequence for the xterm.

Cheers,
  Michael.

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