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From: evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: term w/ Ext US keyboard & shoelace
Message-ID: <1990Nov6.040740.14758@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU>
Date: 6 Nov 90 04:07:40 GMT
References: <35424@nigel.ee.udel.edu>
Organization: CSIRO Division of Info Tech, Sydney, Australia
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In article <35424@nigel.ee.udel.edu> mike.irons@lynx.northeastern.edu writes:
>	I have been having a slight problem using term with the extended US
>keyboard while booting with shoelace. I tell shoelace to use scancode 22
>(lowercase u I believe). I can check into term, but I can't check out! by
>that I mean, when I press the 5 to get out, it won't. In  fact any key you

This is a problem. It also appears on many portables, because there is no
proper numeric keypad. You are supposed to modify the sequence in term.c:

char endseq[] = "\033[G";	/* sequence to leave simulator */

It would be better if term.c checked more than one sequence.

>press won't get you out of term, you simple can't stop it (without a reboot)

Almost anything can be stopped without a reboot, by Ctrl-F9 on the PC. This
sends SIGKILL. term is better stopped using Ctrl-F8. This sends SIGINT. In
fact, this works perfectly when term is run from the console but not when
it is run from another terminal (the magic sequence works from another
Minix-PC system used as a terminal).

>Also it might be nice to have a way to send the break character. We use port

It looks like this will have to wait for a POSIX-conformant tty interface.
-- 
Bruce Evans		evans@syd.dit.csiro.au