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From: jdg@elmgate.uucp (Jeff Gortatowsky)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: re:flash on the amiga screen .....
Message-ID: <424@elmgate.uucp>
Date: Mon, 12-May-86 13:13:23 EDT
Article-I.D.: elmgate.424
Posted: Mon May 12 13:13:23 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 14-May-86 20:22:41 EDT
Organization: Eastman Kodak Company, Rochester, NY
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>        Sometimes when using a term emulator on the amiga (notably online!),
>and say using something like vi which has the habit of throwing a flash-bell
>at you when you do something that it does not like, results quite a few times
>in turning the entire screen into horrible looking yellow (yuuck) color with
>dim white chracters on it, (the poor characters seem like finding their path
>in some desert storm :-)). So far the only solution I have found is to simply
>reset the poor amiga and then reconnect to vax or whatever. Does anybody have
>some more elegant solution to this?
>thanx....

How about using the vi ':set errorbells' to send a beep instead of a
'visable' bell?

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Jeff Gortatowsky       {allegra,seismo}!rochester!kodak!elmgate!jdg
Eastman Kodak Company  

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