ctrl-c
Fairlight
fairlite at fairlite.com
Fri Mar 3 01:34:32 PST 2006
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> On Wed, Mar 01, 2006, Steven Waters wrote:
> >Good day,
> >On the windows version of Filepro. The ctrl-c is used to cancel.
> >Can this be changed to the del key. I have the del on my UNIX system
> >I like it better. I am getting a blister in my pinkie :)
>
> Sounds like you have an SCO Unix system. Linux and most other
> *nix flavours use ctrl-C.
>
> To make this work on your Unix system add this to your .profile,
> or perhaps in the FilePro startup script.
>
> stty intr '^c'
Actually, sounds like he's -used- to SCO systems and wants Windows to
behave the same way. To my knowledge, it can't. filePro works off a
signal rather than a keystroke, and the only two ways to generate that
signal in Windows are ^C or the Break key--both of which require shift.
>From playing electric bass on and off for 20 years, I can tell you with
authority that after about a week or two, your blister will change to a
callous. Relax and wait for it, the pain goes away. :)
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