Date: Sun, 05 Aug 2001 16:52:33 -0700 From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net> To: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@primelogic.com> Cc: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org, "Scott D. Yelich" <scott@scottyelich.com> Subject: Re: ThinkPad X20 keyboard mapping problems Message-ID: <200108052352.f75NqXm20023@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 05 Aug 2001 16:35:15 PDT." <a0500190fb793879559aa@[192.168.1.1]>
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> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 16:35:15 -0700 > From: Michelle Brownsworth <michelle@primelogic.com> > > 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. Because most control characters are NOT echoed when typed. Many have special meaning to the shell (e.g. CTRL-C, CTRL-Z, CTRL-J, CTRL...). So the shell typically does not echo them as typed. That's why you need a program that does so. You could really type in the command directly, but the possibility of a typo when you can't read the echo make that impractical for all but the best typists. (The Perl script can easily be compacted into single line, but I see no reason to make it less easily understood.) 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message
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