mike.irons@lynx.northeastern.edu (11/05/90)
I have been having a slight problem using term with the extended US keyboard while booting with shoelace. I tell shoelace to use scancode 22 (lowercase u I believe). I can check into term, but I can't check out! by that I mean, when I press the 5 to get out, it won't. In fact any key you press won't get you out of term, you simple can't stop it (without a reboot) Also it might be nice to have a way to send the break character. We use port selectors, and some of our machines a to dumb to disconnect from the login: prompt. You have to send it break, get the port selector prompt again, and tell it to disconnect. ie no break, your stuck. mike.irons
cgs@umd5.umd.edu (Chris G. Sylvain) (11/06/90)
In article <35424@nigel.ee.udel.edu> mike.irons@lynx.northeastern.edu writes: > [.. ..] I can check into term, but I can't check out! by that I mean, > when I press the 5 to get out, it won't. [.. ..] > mike.irons The "5" key above the "R" and "T" is not the key to press to exit term: the key to press is the "5" on the separate numeric keypad (yup, the one in the middle). Too bad term doesn't announce this everytime you use it in order to remind the unwary. -- --==---==---==-- Wabe: A grass-plot round a sundial -- ARPA: cgs@umd5.UMD.EDU BITNET: cgs%umd5@umd2 -- -- UUCP: ..!uunet!umd5.umd.edu!cgs --
evans@syd.dit.CSIRO.AU (Bruce.Evans) (11/06/90)
In article <35424@nigel.ee.udel.edu> mike.irons@lynx.northeastern.edu writes: > I have been having a slight problem using term with the extended US >keyboard while booting with shoelace. I tell shoelace to use scancode 22 >(lowercase u I believe). I can check into term, but I can't check out! by >that I mean, when I press the 5 to get out, it won't. In fact any key you This is a problem. It also appears on many portables, because there is no proper numeric keypad. You are supposed to modify the sequence in term.c: char endseq[] = "\033[G"; /* sequence to leave simulator */ It would be better if term.c checked more than one sequence. >press won't get you out of term, you simple can't stop it (without a reboot) Almost anything can be stopped without a reboot, by Ctrl-F9 on the PC. This sends SIGKILL. term is better stopped using Ctrl-F8. This sends SIGINT. In fact, this works perfectly when term is run from the console but not when it is run from another terminal (the magic sequence works from another Minix-PC system used as a terminal). >Also it might be nice to have a way to send the break character. We use port It looks like this will have to wait for a POSIX-conformant tty interface. -- Bruce Evans evans@syd.dit.csiro.au
papo@svax.cs.cornell.edu (Luis R. Anaya) (11/06/90)
Howdy: This is a message that Dave sent to me mistakenly. I'm making the posting for him. Luis --------Message begins --------- I don't quite know how to use this network to submit a message, so I composed a reply. Sorry, no owner's manual for usenet. Does anyone know if problems exist with the readclock command for IBM minix? I am running a 386, with 1.5.10, and the program returns "-q" due to a port input failure. Any patches out there? Dave Smith Luis R. Anaya | Everything said here is mine. Luj^s R. Anaja | Tutan la ioj^n mi skribis c^i tie estas mian. papo@cs.cornell.edu