Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!cmcl2!nrl-cmf!ames!ncar!tank!oddjob!uxc!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr
From: leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: where is the 'break' key on Mac
Message-ID: <46100207@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu>
Date: 23 Aug 88 23:08:00 GMT
References: <30@sdacs.ucsd.EDU>
Lines: 41
Nf-ID: #R:sdacs.ucsd.EDU:30:uxe.cso.uiuc.edu:46100207:000:2139
Nf-From: uxe.cso.uiuc.edu!leonardr    Aug 23 18:08:00 1988


wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU(Wade Blomgren) writes in comp.sys.mac

>In article <2260@alliant.Alliant.COM>, doherty@Alliant.COM (Dave Doherty) sez:
>> 
>> Can anyone tell me how to transmit a 'break' from the Mac II extended
>> keyboard? I need to send one to my data switch while in kermit...
>> 
>
>This is a common question, so here is some info - feel free to correct 
>any errors:
>
>There is no "break" key on any Macintosh keyboard.  This is in some
>sense because break is not really a character, ie there is no ascii
>value for "break".  Break is sort of a "condition" of a connection, yes?
>
>OK, so there is no "break" key.  Macintosh telecommunications programs must
>determine what key or key combination will be used to indicate that the
>user wishes to assert the "break" condition on the connection.
>..... List of programs and their break keys .....
>
	I would also like to add in that MicroPhone II supports a BREAK key in one
of two ways.  We have a built-in equivalent for it which is the Command-UpArrow
and our scripting language contains a command called Signal. The Signal command
can be used to send either a Short Break or a Long Break (it can also Drop
Assert and Flash DTR, but that's another story).  You could therefore create a
script whose only command was the Signal Long Break (assuming this is what you
need) and then assign any commandKey or FKEY (on the extended keyboard) to
that script.


+---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+
+                                 +  Any thing I say may be taken as  +
+   Leonard Rosenthol             +  fact, then again you might decide+
+   President, LazerWare, inc.    +  that it really isn't, so you     +
+                                 +  never know, do you??             +
+   leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu     +                                   +
+   GEnie:  MACgician             +  MacNET: MACgician                +
+   Delphi: MACgician             +                                   +
+                                 +                                   +
+---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+