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Switching between RAW: and CON:, Best way?

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From: Rev. Ben A. Mesander
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 1990 16:32
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Thanks to some help from the net, I used a RAW: console rather than a
CON: console for an application where I did not want input characters
echoed to the screen. I send an ACTION_SCREEN_MODE packet to the CLI
console to switch the CLI to RAW: mode upon startup, and CON: mode
before I exit. Everything works great.

The thing is, that it turns out that all this stuff to do with sending
packets seems a little complex to me. Is there perhaps a simpler way to
do this? Is there a magic escape sequence I can send a CON: window that
will switch it to a RAW: window and vice versa?

Also where is the ACTION_SCREEN_MODE packet documented in the RKMs? All
I could find was the reference to it in libraries/dosextens.h, which was
not particularly informative... (I got the info I have on it from a fish
disk.)

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From: ben@epmooch.UUCP (Rev. Ben A. Mesander)
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Subject: Switching between RAW: and CON:, Best way?
Keywords: RAW:, CON:, Sending Packets to handlers
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Date: 26 Dec 90 16:32:55 GMT
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