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From: cgf AT cygnus DOT com (Christopher G. Faylor)
Subject: Re: Escape sequences
6 Jun 1998 17:16:10 GMT :
Message-ID: <6lbtgq$7a7$1@cronkite.cygnus.com>
References: <6EE807C60AFCD111995100805F57E9C001750A DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT CSC_MS_01>
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In article <6EE807C60AFCD111995100805F57E9C001750A DOT cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT CSC_MS_01>,
Daniel Tessier <dtessier AT cambriansys DOT com> wrote:
>In the Readme.txt file that comes with B19, I found the following
>excerpt:
>"Additional terminal escape sequences recognized: scroll region setting
>via <ESC>[n1;n2r and setting the console title using xterm escape
>sequence: <ESC>[2;new title^G ."
>
>Does this work only for xterms, or can I use it to set the window title
>of
>the console in which I run bash. If it is possible, how do I do it? I
>tried
>echoing that escape sequence to no avail. I am using Windows NT4
>w/SP3, and B19.1.
>
>Thanks for the help.

That's my fault.  It's a bug in the documentation.  The character following
the <ESC> should be a ] not a [.
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