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From: whh@pbhya.UUCP (Wilson Heydt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: IBM????
Message-ID: <11129@pbhya.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 88 21:03:08 GMT
References: <2405@utah-gr.UUCP>
Organization: Pacific * Bell, San Ramon, CA
Lines: 19
Keywords: humorous editor

In article <2405@utah-gr.UUCP>, mjb%hoosier.utah.edu.uucp@utah-gr.UUCP (Mark J. Bradakis) writes:
> When I worked for an IBM facility for a while, I was quite amused by the
> "screen editor" I used.  I won't comment here on the whole command/input mode
> difference.  I will say that when you moved the cursor to a particular column
> and hit ANY key (other than the one moving the cursor out of the column) there
> was no recourse but cycling power on terminal.  Now THAT is good, user friendly
> programming!  The lightning bolt and little man icons were neat, too!
> 

Try 'reset', or in extreme cases 'device cancel'.  Every protocol converter
I've dealt with had keyed equivalents. (One that comes to mind uses esc-Z).

     --Hal

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