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From: gam@tektronix.UUCP (Gregory Muth)
Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: a NASTY joke (offensive to 4105's)
Message-ID: <2459@tektronix.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 2-May-84 08:52:26 EDT
Article-I.D.: tektroni.2459
Posted: Wed May  2 08:52:26 1984
Date-Received: Fri, 4-May-84 04:50:16 EDT
Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR
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Do you know of someone who uses a TEK 4105 terminal that you don't
like very well or that you are indebted to as far as practical jokes
go?  I have found the following to be quite amusing to the
perpetrator and QUITE annoying to the perpatratee...

The following set of commands tells the terminal to set the screen,
character cell, and character color to black (DAINDEX 0 0 0); set
the cursor to black (ACURSOR 0 0); clear the dialog area; and save
these new settings as defaults (NVSAVE).  This renders the terminal
useless until these settings are changed, which must be done blind
if done manually...

NOTE: I have expanded the EC character (ESCAPE: ASCII code 27) to ^[
in this example...

^[%!0
^[LI000
^[TD00
^[LZ
^[KU
^[%!1

I have put these commands in a file and periodically "cat" them to
"/dev/tty<someone I want to get>".  It really makes me feel good!