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Date:Mon Jul 3 08:42:22 1993 
Subject:Representing ESCAPE in strings in Pop-11 
From:"A.Sloman" 
Volume-ID:930703.02 

I wonder how many people have discovered what I've only noticed for
the first time: i.e. you can now (V14.2) represent the escape character
in strings using \e, instead of having to use \^[

E.g.
	datalist('\e\^[') =>
    ** [27 27]

I found this in REF ITEMISE.
Aaron
PS
Note to Poplog developers: HELP ASCII should probably be merged
with REF ITEMISE so that it is kept up to date. REF STRINGS should have
a line saying something like

	For information regarding the external representation of strings,
    including non-printing characters, see REF * ITEMISE/'A string'

Users might be well advised to ask their local Poplog manager to edit
current versions of REF STRINGS (and perhaps HELP STRINGS) to include
this cross reference.