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From: ejkst@cisunx.UUCP (Eric J. Kennedy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Fast fonts...  (AkA, FF )
Message-ID: <15089@cisunx.UUCP>
Date: 19 Jan 89 04:52:12 GMT
References: <8901180336.AA01749@jade.berkeley.edu> <10865@umn-cs.CS.UMN.EDU> <85848@sun.uucp>
Reply-To: ejkst@unix.cis.pittsburgh.edu (Eric J. Kennedy)
Organization: Univ. of Pittsburgh, Comp & Info Sys
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In article <85848@sun.uucp> cmcmanis@sun.UUCP (Chuck McManis) writes:
<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)

The Dillon/Drew shell traps the ^O.  You can get it to output the ^O
with the command 'echo ^O'.  That's carat-o not control-o.  You could
make it part of your prompt if you find this happening to you often.
E.g. 'set _prompt ^o$'

-- 
Eric Kennedy
ejkst@cisunx.UUCP