From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Feb 14 02:05:11 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id CAA05913 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 02:05:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id CAA05903 for ; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 02:05:08 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id UAA16829; Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:37:15 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199602141007.UAA16829@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: kbdcontrol change To: angio@aros.net (Dave Andersen) Date: Wed, 14 Feb 1996 20:37:14 +1030 (CST) Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: <199602140812.BAA04009@terra.aros.net> from "Dave Andersen" at Feb 14, 96 01:12:21 am MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Dave Andersen stands accused of saying: > > I got annoyed with kbdcontrol's inability to put returns or tabs in > macros (makes it difficult to do multi-line commands. :), so I patched it > to handle \ notation.. Not necessarily a bad thing... > kbdcontrol -f 1 "cd /\nls\ncd\n" > works admirably to create a sequence of: > cd / > ls > cd But what's wrong with "cd /;nls;ncd" ?? -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] Collector of old Unix hardware. "I seek PEZ!" - The Tick [[