RS> Far simpler to just use the integer form, PUT 27, note the lack
 RS> of quote marks.

Hi Rod,
        I didn't know you could do that! I thought you had to say:

  Are you *sure* that PUT 27 is the same as PUT "^["?

  I think you're wrong, Rod. The first is hex 32 37 and the second is 
hex 1B.

 RS> Even the manual page on the PUT command spells all this stuff
 RS> out in full detail except that a more detailed coverage of that
 RS> particular use would have been handy.

  There is no mention of PUTting without quotation marks, except for
variables. Does PRINT work the same way? If I use PRINT 27 will it
print a ? I'll try it.

... [later...] It didn't! It just printed the numbers 27.

  I'm so confused that I've been writing test scripts, compiling them, 
and investigating them with a hex editor, but the compiled Telemate 
script makes no sense. If I ask Telix to cputc(27) I can find a hex 1B 
in the code, but not with Telemate. What a bummer!

Regards,
Bob
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