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From: brant@uf.msc.umn.edu (Gary Brant)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fast fonts...  (AkA, FF )
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Date: 18 Jan 89 23:49:11 GMT
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In article <85848@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
>In article <8901180336.AA01749@jade.berkeley.edu> (Jonathan Crone) writes:
>

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>In article <10865@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> brant@uf.msc.umn.edu (Gary Brant) writes:
>->Again, if you are in the shell, you have to exit the shell to get out of
>->the alternate character set.  You can then startup a new shell & everything
>->will be hunky.
>
>Well can't you just type ^O and get the regular characters back ? I don't
>use the dillon/drew shell so I don't know if this is trapped but I don't
>think it would be. Oh, and ^N will put your back into funky character mode.
>(ASCII codes for SI == Shift In, SO == Shift Out)


Alas, this does not work; I have tried this to no avail.  Perhaps this 
has something to do with Steve Drew's RAW console code; I don't know.  At
any rate, just exiting the shell seems to clear things up without needing
to type ^O or anything else.


>--Chuck McManis


-Gary Brant	ARPA:	brant@uf.msc.umn.edu


My employer knows nothing about my ravings.