Re: encapsulating directory operations

On 2025-05-26, James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu> wrote:

On 5/25/25 21:29, Janis Papanagnou wrote:

On 26.05.2025 00:40, Paul Edwards wrote:

...

But not what I want. For reasons which are difficult for me
to elaborate - "aesthetic", or "self-contained" may or may
not be apt words - I want to include the ESCAPE in the
C code, just like the "hello, world\n" bit.

 
Doesn't '\e' work for you?
 
    char * str = "\e";
    puts (str);
 
    printf ("\e\n");
 
    putchar ('\e');
    putchar ('\n');
 
Works for me. - Is that non-standard?

>
Yes. It's a common extension.

If that's not available in compilers for IBM mainframes in such a way
that it produces the EBCDIC escape, then it doesn't solve Paul's
"problem" anyway.

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