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From: eos!jbm@eos.arc.nasa.gov (Jeffrey Mulligan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Re: reverse video
Keywords: SunOS
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masterm@ucrmath.ucr.edu writes:

||AKONSTAM%TRINITY@icsa.rice.edu (AARON KONSTAM) writes:
||
||In communicating with our IBM mainframe tip under particular conditions
||accepts a control signal from the mainframe comunication hardware that
||puts the sun terminal into reverse video mode. This happens on 3.x and 4
||machines and under SUNOS 3.x and 4.x.  The problem is we can't find any
||way short of rebooting to change out of reverse video. (I should mention
||suntools does not appear in reverse video only the basic console screen.)
||What character string takes one back to regular video display? 

|Try typing "reset".

Also, what about "sunbow" (sun black-on-white) and "sunwob" (sun
white-on-black)???

	Jeff Mulligan (jbm@aurora.arc.nasa.gov)
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