I've been trying to print out an escape sequence from Report Writer.
It indicated that it is possible (look at Q0 on page 4-54).  But, it
did not say how.  I've tried it with the following test:

$ REPORT CUTLER -ISYS$INPUT: -FTEST.OUT

.NAME   TEST

.FORMFEEDS                                      /* init report */
.PAGELENGTH 37
.PAGEWIDTH 132
.LM 45
.RM 132

.DECLARE string  = c255                         /* declare variables */
.DECLARE initstr = c10
.LET     initstr = '?&16D?&l1O'                 /* printer init string */

/* The ? in above initstr is actually an embedded escape, ascii value 27 */
/* It's been changed so not to mess up someone's news reader. :-) */
/* I would also like to know how I can do something cleaner like:

    .LET esc     = CHR(27)
    .LET initstr = esc + '&16D' + esc + '&l1O'
*/

.DATA   TEST

.HEADER report
        .PRINTLN $initstr (q0)

.DETAIL
        .PRINTLN test
$!

First line of output is:

<FF>                                              &16D &l1O

The <FF> is form feed, modified here to make displayable.  Notice that it
prints spaces rather than the actual escape characters in the above line.
I know that spaces are not escape characters (I can tell with my special
editor, it shows <ESC> whenever there's one.)  Anyone know a fix for it?

VAX/VMS 5.5-1, INGRES VAX Version 6.4/03 (vax.vms/00)

Regards,

John E. Babbitt, Jr.        {UUCP: ...access1!cutler!john}

Cutler & Company, Inc.      {Phone: 503/770-9000 (voice) 503/770-9014 (tt)}
Medford, Oregon  97504      {Disclaimer: What I say is my personal opinion}

I haven't seen a response, so I thought I would post again:

I've been trying to print out an escape sequence from Report Writer.
It indicated that it is possible (look at Q0 on page 4-54).  But, it
did not say how.  I've tried it with the following test:

$ REPORT CUTLER -ISYS$INPUT: -FTEST.OUT

.NAME   TEST

.FORMFEEDS                                      /* init report */
.PAGELENGTH 37
.PAGEWIDTH 132
.LM 45
.RM 132

.DECLARE string  = c255                         /* declare variables */
.DECLARE initstr = c10
.LET     initstr = '?&16D?&l1O'                 /* printer init string */

/* The ? in above initstr is actually an embedded escape, ascii value 27 */
/* It's been changed so not to mess up someone's news reader. :-) */
/* I would also like to know how I can do something cleaner like:

    .LET esc     = CHR(27)
    .LET initstr = esc + '&16D' + esc + '&l1O'
*/

.DATA   TEST

.HEADER report
        .PRINTLN $initstr (q0)

.DETAIL
        .PRINTLN test
$!

First line of output is:

<FF>                                              &16D &l1O

The <FF> is form feed, modified here to make displayable.  Notice that it
prints spaces rather than the actual escape characters in the above line.
I know that spaces are not escape characters (I can tell with my special
editor, it shows <ESC> whenever there's one.)  Anyone know a fix for it?

VAX/VMS 5.5-1, INGRES VAX Version 6.4/03 (vax.vms/00)

Regards,

John E. Babbitt, Jr.        {UUCP: ...access1!cutler!john}

Cutler & Company, Inc.      {Phone: 503/770-9000 (voice) 503/770-9014 (tt)}
Medford, Oregon  97504      {Disclaimer: What I say is my personal opinion}

I had success in the past sending escape sequences to an LN03 for bolding      
by just embedding the escape character in a .PRINT string with DEC's EDT        
editor:                                                                        

.PRINT "<ESC>[1mBold Header<ESC>[m"                                            

In EDT the escape character is created with <GOLD>27<GOLD>3                    

The 27 is typed on the typewriter keys and the 3 is on the keypad.              

Good Luck!                                                                      

Golly, you're right.  Looks like I can't store escape sequences in strings
and expect Ingres to print them.  Any idea why?  A bug?  Feature? :-)

Regards,

John E. Babbitt, Jr.        {UUCP: ...access1!cutler!john}

Cutler & Company, Inc.      {Phone: 503/770-9000 (voice) 503/770-9014 (tt)}
Medford, Oregon  97504      {Disclaimer: What I say is my personal opinion}