ctrl-P

Doug Gwyn gwyn at smoke.brl.mil
Tue Apr 16 12:10:57 AEST 1991


In article <14594 at ulysses.att.com> andys at ulysses.att.com (Andy Sherman) writes:
>Admin:  "Dave, does your password happen to have a control-P in it?
>	That's the halt character for a Vax console."

Yeah, this happens every once in a while here, where we use a video terminal
and somebody tries to do some EMACS-style editing.  The really sick thing
is that the inverse operation seems to be to type:
	SET TERM CONSOLE
which is hardly intuitive!



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