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Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 16:35:15 -0700
To: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
From: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@primelogic.com>
Subject: Re: ThinkPad X20 keyboard mapping problems
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	"Scott D. Yelich" <scott@scottyelich.com>
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Kevin Oberman writes:

>  > Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 15:50:33 -0700
>>  From: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@eugene.net>
>>  >
>>  >sigh... in the time that it too you to exaplin how to fix the
>>  >corruption that is going to happen from this style of coding,
>>  >you could have presented a cut'n'paste-able code:
>>  >
>>  >#!/usr/bin/perl
>>  >
>>  >$cntrlo=pack("c",15);
>>  >print "$cntrlo";
>>  >
>>  >Scott
>>
>>  Kevin and Scott,
>>
>>  Please excuse my obtuseness, but if the console is in the alternate
>>  char set mode, how would one execute the Perl script that restores it
>>  to normal?  Perhaps I'm missing the point.
>
>You miss the point. It's not the key-map that's broken. It's the
>presentation of characters on the screen that is messed up. (Of
>course, it's still possible that I have simply mis-diagnosed the
>problem.)
>
>Create the file in a directory in the execution path, chmod the file
>to 755 and rehash. When the screen goes nuts, carefully type the name
>of the script. If you give the script an all upper-case name
>(e.g. FIX-FONT), the command should even echo back correctly.
>
>Of course, if you are running a program, you will need to suspend the
>program (CTRL-Z), run the fix, and continue the program (fg).
>
>R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer
>Energy Sciences Network (ESnet)
>Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab)
>E-mail: oberman@es.net			Phone: +1 510 486-8634


Makes sense.  In that case, I guess I'm still confused about why you 
wouldn't simply type a CTRL-O from the command line instead of 
executing the script.

.\\ichelle
---------------------
Michelle Brownsworth
System Administrator
PrimeLogic Communications
http://www.primelogic.com

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