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From: gwyn@smoke.brl.mil (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: ctrl-P
Message-ID: <15849@smoke.brl.mil>
Date: 16 Apr 91 02:10:57 GMT
References: <26522@adm.brl.mil> <14594@ulysses.att.com>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <14594@ulysses.att.com> andys@ulysses.att.com (Andy Sherman) writes:
>Admin:  "Dave, does your password happen to have a control-P in it?
>	That's the halt character for a Vax console."

Yeah, this happens every once in a while here, where we use a video terminal
and somebody tries to do some EMACS-style editing.  The really sick thing
is that the inverse operation seems to be to type:
	SET TERM CONSOLE
which is hardly intuitive!