Tips and Tricks: Mass Update

[Kenneth Brody]

On 6/3/2016 4:39 PM, Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 03, 2016, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list wrote:
> ...
>> Takes me back to the days when "word star" was my editor of choice to
>> write code (Clipper, DBIII, DBIV); one had to know all the shortcuts or
>> key combinations to be truly productive.  I never did learn the keys for
>> `vi` except for those most commonly used.
>
> Didn't Word Star use the ctrl-s key for something?
>
> This wouldn't work well on a serial connection where that's XOFF
> and tells the computer to stop sending.
>
> As I remember, the TRS-Model 12/16 keyboard had function keys
> around the numeric keypad, one of which sent ctrl-s (probably
> something from Scripsit).

There was some printer that used XOFF for some print code (such as 
"underscore on").  Worked fine most of the time, except when hooked up as a 
local printer on a serial terminal.  (I remember many years ago when sCC 
tech support got a call wondering why filePro would hang at the same point 
in a report.)

-- 
Kenneth Brody