There are a few special character sequences, which all begin
with the '~' character. All other characters pass through
unchanged. The special control sequences in data lines are:
- ~~
- replaced by a single '~' character
- ~n
- replaced with a newline character
- ~c
- replaced by the user's callsign
- ~e
- replaced by the Error variable
- ~b
- replaced with a bell character
- ~h
- replaced by the name of the host computer
- ~d
- replaced by the current date
- ~t
- replaced by the current time
- ~u
- un-terminate the current line; remove ending newline
character
- ~l
- replaced by the elapsed time of this script, in seconds
- ~p
- replaced with the file position of the current data file
- ~0 .. ~9
- replaced by variable string 0 .. 9
- ~i0 .. ~i9
- replaced by value of index 0 .. 9