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From: alan@mq.UUCP (Alan H. Mintz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: 1) Mulitscreen switching 2) event driver, 3) Kernel hacking
Summary: Maybe ANSI...
Message-ID: <48@mq.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 90 20:55:49 GMT
References: <1990Aug21.080230.607@bbt.se>
Organization: Micro-Quick Systems, Inc.
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In article <1990Aug21.080230.607@bbt.se>, pgd@bbt.se (P.Garbha) writes:
> 1) How do i switch console multiscreen from a program?
> 
>    If you wonder why, it is that i put the keyboard into "RAW" (scancode)
>    mode, and then the console multiscreen keys don't work any more.

Not an answer, but some empirical evidence. It seems to be possible to 
cause the console to switch multiscreens by "cat"ing (accidentally) an
executable file while logged in on the console. It would seem that the
binary may have contained an escape sequence that caused the switch ?
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