[Info-vax] Ctrl-Ecf

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In article <h89am9$2fa$1 at news-01.bur.connect.com.au>, "Richard Maher" <maher_rj at hotspamnotmail.com> writes:
>Hi Brian,
>
><VAXman- @SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote in message
>news:00A914CA.3F5BAA92 at SendSpamHere.ORG...
>> WTF?
>>
>> [Read only - use Ctrl-Ecf for console write access.]
>>
>> Ctrl-E and [c] and [f]?
>
>Thanks for bringing that up; I also had no idea what it was talking about.
>
>FWIW, I only see this happen when I reboot my PC/Term-emulator when the
>console was previously logged on (into SYSTEM as it happens). If I Ctrl-B
>back to the menu, then log in to the server via a normal Telnet session, and
>then CO again from the console session, it goes away.
>
>I'm sure I've also tried the Ctrl-E+c+f combo with no success (I had thought
>"Ecf" was some character(s) that KIA term was munging :-)

I am telnetting.  Only Hopelessly Pathetic could have dreamt up something 
as utterly anal as this combination.  Anything else to make that ugly I64
console more hostile?  Don't make it user friendly; make it user fugly.


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