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From: anderson@dogie.macc.wisc.edu (Jess Anderson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.next
Subject: Re: Where is Control-/?
Message-ID: <1991Mar3.021037.28815@macc.wisc.edu>
Date: 3 Mar 91 02:10:37 GMT
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In article <1991Mar3.002740.406@solo.csci.unt.edu> gene@ponder.csci.unt.edu (Gene De Lisa) writes:

>I had the same problem with kermit; the esc char by default is control \
>I solved this by putting the following lines in .kermrc

>[...]
>set esc 9

>This last line sets the esc char to be control-I which == 9
>(control-a is 1 control-b is 2 etc).

Depending on what you're connecting to, you may find it useful
to keep your tab key (normally ^I) working.  Many kermits
use ^] as the escape key, which seem to conflict with a minimum
number of other applications.  So I chose set esc 28 (control-])
to solve the control-\ (29) problem.

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