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From: danielce@gondwana4.ecr.mu.oz (Daniel Ake CAROSONE)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.zenith
Subject: Re: Ctrl-Alt-F (?)
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Date: 9 May 90 05:05:27 GMT
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In article <1990May7.233504.23622@sun.soe.clarkson.edu>, millernw@clutx.clarkson.edu (Neal W. Miller) writes:
> 	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.

Well, a little while ago we were discussing such things.
There are three such combinations that appear to do things to the screen.

On some machines ctl-atl-i throws the display into interlaced mode, on my
SupersPort it simply blanks the LCD (I haven't tried it with an external 
CRT)
ctl-atl-f and ctl-alt-n both return my LCD to normal operation, they appear
to do similar things on other Zeniths.

i = Interlaced, n = normal, f = ???