filepro keys

[Kenneth Brody]

On 3/27/2013 6:02 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
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> Personally I liked the way Scripsit did things with mnemonic key
> codes <ctrl-I> == insert, <ctrl-d> == delete, etc.  The Radio
> Shack Model I2/16/6000 keyboards put function keys around the
> keypad to make these easy for one hand input.  This was a nice
> idea, but as usual had unintended consequences as Scripsit for
> the Model II and programs like WordStar used <ctrl-S> for
> something or other -- the XOFF character that caused serial
> connections to stop waiting for an XON <ctrl-Q> to resume.  I
> don't know how many calls I got shortly after people started
> using Scripsit on Xenix whose terminals stopped working.

We had a support call once from someone whose reports would stop in the 
middle, every time, at the same place.  It turned out that that particular 
printer used Ctrl-S (XOFF) for something like "underline on".  You can guess 
what happens when the printer is attached to a Unix box via a serial port.

-- 
Kenneth Brody