How do you work with control characters

[dhazer]

I'm wondering how you pro's deal control characters. Often I do a RAW screen capture of the characters coming in from procomm, and I'm trying to figure out what they mean, what they purpose is (often, certain control characters are for formatting the screen, at least on my WYSE 55 I believe so). For example, I have the captured text file, and I'd like to find out what ASCII value they represent, what Carret symbol (i.e. ^M) they translate to, and lastly, what aspect function I can use to take an ascii value, and feed it to the system. (I know 'transmit' can take carret symbols, but how about ascii?)

Thanks in advance,
Daniel

 

[knob]

If you choose the Help | Script Reference menu item within Procomm, you can click on the Index tab, search for ASCII, and view the ASCII table topic. It's a bit techy, but will get you a start and you can likely do a little research via Google to find additional resources.

However, I'm not sure that control characters are what you are interested in since usually formatting in terminal emulations is done using escape sequences. It's possibly Wyse 55 might be different though. I guess it depends on just how much you need to know about the formatting.

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