Toggling in PDP-11 Bootstraps...

From: John Wilson <wilson_at_dbit.dbit.com>
Date: Tue Mar 21 23:53:55 2000

On Wed, Mar 22, 2000 at 01:08:48AM +0000, Tony Duell wrote:
> > TAB?!
> >
> > Well, maybe this is too obvious, but you've tried CTRL/J right?
>
> Unless this is a _very_ strange terminal, ctrl-J is linefeed. Tab would
> be ctrl-I.

Sure, I wasn't saying TAB is ^J, I was expressing disbelief that the Wyse
terminal has a setting to make the RETURN key generate TAB. That's twisted!
 
> Most terminals will send Esc if you type ctrl-[, which is useful on some
> VT series units without a real escape key...

Yeah, ^[ comes in handy, since on current PC keyboards the real Esc key is
a long way from the home keys. I wish there were a similar easy way to get
the \ character, since it seems no two keyboards have that in the same place.

John Wilson
D Bit
Received on Tue Mar 21 2000 - 23:53:55 GMT