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Henk-Jan van Tuyl | 21 Dec 2008 16:06

putStr "\BEL" and putStr "\ESC[2J" do not behave correctly


The following problems occurred in WinHugs (version: Sep 2006, on Windows  
XP):

Printing the BELL character does not result in a beep:
Hugs> putStr "\BEL"


Trying to clear the screen:
Hugs> putStr "\ESC[2J"
[2J

In Hugs (version: 20051031), the BELL character results in a beep, but the  
CLS escape code had the same effect as in WinHugs.

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Neil Mitchell | 23 Dec 2008 14:22

Re: putStr "\BEL" and putStr "\ESC[2J" do not behave correctly

Hi Henk-Jan,

> The following problems occurred in WinHugs (version: Sep 2006, on Windows
> XP):
>
> Printing the BELL character does not result in a beep:
> Hugs> putStr "\BEL"
>
> Trying to clear the screen:
> Hugs> putStr "\ESC[2J"
> [2J

I guess these escape codes just never got on to the implemented list.
The bell is trivial, and clearing the screen probably isn't too hard
either. At the moment I don't have any machines set up that can
compile WinHugs, but I've reported it as a bug:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hugs/ticket/88

Thanks

Neil