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From: job00542@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-F (?)
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Date: 8 May 90 16:37:00 GMT
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> millernw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Neal W. Miller)
>
> Here's a poser:
> 
>         On the Zenith-248 (at least, that's what I tried it on), I found
> by sheer accident that Ctrl-Alt-F does very nasty things to the video mode
> while text is on the screen.  Does anyone have any idea what the combination
> of keys is actually doing?  The letter "F" brings several not-so-technical
> phrases to mind, but I doubt that this was Zenith's intention.

   Pressing Ctrl-Alt-F on my Heath-148 in text mode seems to vibrate the 
characters up and down very rapidly; if it weren't for the terrible flicker,
this would effectively fill in the thin lines between pixel rows.  My guess
is that F means 'fill'.  (Incidently, Ctrl-Alt-N changes the video mode back
to normal.)