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- From: vancleef@netcom.com (Henry van Cleef)
- Subject: Re: Problem with multi-screens
- Message-ID: <1992Dec30.023608.17772@netcom.com>
- Organization: Netcom--posted from Andover, Mass.
- References: <517@yonder.UUCP>
- Date: Wed, 30 Dec 1992 02:36:08 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <517@yonder.UUCP> michael@yonder.UUCP (Michael E. Haws) writes:
- >I have a customer who is running SCO XENIX 2.3.1 and has been running
- >it for years now. Within the last 2 weeks she has had a problem with
- >multi-screens behaving erratically. She has four Screens enabled,
- >tty01 thru tty04. She uses Alt-F1 thru ALT-F4 to switch to these
- >screens. What has started happening recently is that sometimes these
- >keys work correctly to switch screens for her and sometimes they do not.
- >
- >When they do not switch screens for her she is sometimes left looking
- >at her original screen and she gets the message
- >
- > If your terminal supports lower case letters, please
- > use them. Login again, using lower case if possible
- >
- >She is sometimes left with strange characters on the original screen
- >when she hits the ALT-F keys as if not all the characters generated
- >by they ALT-F? keys are being sent correctly.
- >
- >Has anyone seen this? Is it a hardware or software problem most likely?
- >
- This was the first symptom of the death of a Northgate keyboard on my
- system. Try another keyboard.
- --
- Hank van Cleef vancleef@netcom.com vancleef@tmn.com Andover, Mass.
- Unix systems consultant---kernel, device drivers, networking, X11
- SysV, BSD, Sun, Ultrix, AIX, SCO. Porting a specialty.
- The Union Institute History of Science
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