leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu (08/24/88)
wade@sdacs.ucsd.EDU(Wade Blomgren) writes in comp.sys.mac >In article <2260@alliant.Alliant.COM>, doherty@Alliant.COM (Dave Doherty) sez: >> >> Can anyone tell me how to transmit a 'break' from the Mac II extended >> keyboard? I need to send one to my data switch while in kermit... >> > >This is a common question, so here is some info - feel free to correct >any errors: > >There is no "break" key on any Macintosh keyboard. This is in some >sense because break is not really a character, ie there is no ascii >value for "break". Break is sort of a "condition" of a connection, yes? > >OK, so there is no "break" key. Macintosh telecommunications programs must >determine what key or key combination will be used to indicate that the >user wishes to assert the "break" condition on the connection. >..... List of programs and their break keys ..... > I would also like to add in that MicroPhone II supports a BREAK key in one of two ways. We have a built-in equivalent for it which is the Command-UpArrow and our scripting language contains a command called Signal. The Signal command can be used to send either a Short Break or a Long Break (it can also Drop Assert and Flash DTR, but that's another story). You could therefore create a script whose only command was the Signal Long Break (assuming this is what you need) and then assign any commandKey or FKEY (on the extended keyboard) to that script. +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+ + + Any thing I say may be taken as + + Leonard Rosenthol + fact, then again you might decide+ + President, LazerWare, inc. + that it really isn't, so you + + + never know, do you?? + + leonardr@uxe.cso.uiuc.edu + + + GEnie: MACgician + MacNET: MACgician + + Delphi: MACgician + + + + + +---------------------------------+-----------------------------------+