Kimtron terminals and oraterm (help)

I am trying to hook up a kimtron dumb terminal to oracle through the oraterm facility. The kimtron monitor has a problem with the cursor positioning in that it does not take the regular numeric arguments to the 'tput cup' command. This monitor remapps the numeric argument to a corresponding ascii value. I have a list of these conversions and I have entered the octal value into the X & Y tables of the coordinate style option of 'table'. When I go into sqlforms30 the process core dumps.

What I would like to know is how to have the sqlforms30 program convert the numeric arguments to the converted values before sending them to the terminal. For example...

1 = [space]     in octal \040
2 = !           in octal \041
3 = "           in octal \042
4 = $           in octal \043

if I pass the value "ESC=$#"
the cursor will go to the 4th row and the 3rd column.

Oracle should be able to handle this capability through the oraterm facility.

I would appreciate any help.

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