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From: folta@tove.umd.edu (Wayne Folta)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Problems with Red Ryder
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Date: 31 Jan 89 21:16:21 GMT
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"In article <7118@spool.cs.wisc.edu> drew@cat45.CS.WISC.EDU (Shawn Drew) writes:
""I had considered buying Red Ryder, but have noticed something quite strange
""going on.  If I ever hit Shift-Delete (happens quite often when typing in  
""anything in all caps) I will be pulled out of my account and placed back
""in the CLI (command-line interpreter; allows me to telnet to my account).
"
"Typing Shift-Delete is how you send the BREAK signal in Red Ryder.
"I'm sure this is documented in the manual (I don't remember having to
"hunt for it, so I must have read it).  Apparently, your terminal
"concentrator uses BREAK as the signal to return to the CLI.
"
"I don't remember whether there's a way to disable this feature,
"though.  Look in the customization menus to see.
"
"Barry Margolin
"Thinking Machines Corp.


Yes, this is correct.  The Customize menu selection "Keyboard Mapping
Preferences" has an item "Modem BREAK signal keys supported", which
turns this feature on and off.  I like being able to pop back into
our switch, as I can have two sessions running on two different machines,
toggling between them as easily as between jobs in cshell.


Wayne Folta          (folta@tove.umd.edu  128.8.128.42)