How can I de-escape my strings at run time?

[Peter Jeffe 512.823.4091/500000]

In article <1990Jun11.092136.7800 at gdr.bath.ac.uk> P.Smee at bristol.ac.uk (Paul Smee) writes:
>>Whether EBCDIC has codes for these characters is one question (to which the
>>answer is, yes it has); whether you can easily use those characters in an
>>IBM environment (under VM/CMS for example) is another question, to which
>>the answer is again, _yes_.  
>
>Or, sometimes, _no_.  This depends heavily on precisely what
>make/model, and even submodel of terminal you have (some but not all
>3270's work, for example) and on the precise details of how they are
>connected to the machine.  And, possibly, even on how your MAINT has
>configured things.

On VM, I think that the only trick is in doing the appropriate CP command to
translate the incoming/outgoing codes; unfortunately (for you; fortunately
for me) it has been too long for me to remember the exact command, but it
was something like "CP TERM [IN | OUT] CHAR1 CHAR2"; I had it in my
profile.exec and it did the trick.  I successfully worked with Whitesmith C
on a 9370 and CP did the terminal-bracket-to-Whitesmith-bracket conversion
just fine (there were occeasional glitches, but nothing compared to having
to use the trigraph abominations).  Sorry I can't provide more info, but I've
happily blocked out the whole miserable experience.
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