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Re: Can someone explain this?



Alex Shnitman <alexsh@usa.net> wrote:
|On Sun, 4 May 1997, Eli Algranti wrote:
|
|> Yesterday I was reading mail and news, and suddenly remembered I had
|> something to do, so I left my computer as it was and went out.
|> 
|> Meanwhile my cat must've walked over my keyboard (something he likes to do
|> :) ) and when I got back pine was in reply mode with a lot of garbage in
|> the reply to field and *stuck*.
|
|Most probably the cat pressed Ctrl-S or Scroll Lock. It completely locks
|the console, but you can unlock it easily by pressing the Caps Lock key
|again.

I'm not very familiar with the console driver, but the standard way to
restart screen output after a ^S is ^Q.

Cheers,

--Amos

--Amos Shapira                    | "Of course Australia was marked for
133 Shlomo Ben-Yosef st.          |  glory, for its people had been chosen
Jerusalem 93 805                  |  by the finest judges in England."
ISRAEL             amos@dsi.co.il |                     -- Anonymous


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