Jerry Yeager <jerry at browseryshop.com> wrote: > Oh boy, hmmm, well here goes, Actually what you do is hold down the control > key and hit the 'x' or 'o' or whichever key. (in the same vein as cmd-s in a > word processor will save the file)...
I have been pressing combinations of keys on Macs for ten years, but holding Control while pressing o did not do anything for me while I was in Terminal. Holding Cntrl while hitting o only made an o appear on the Terminal screen. Now, the list of key commands at the bottom of the Terminal screen all had a carrot in front of them. The command to "WriteOut" had an upward pointing arrow followed by an o. My keyboard has < and > but not one that points upward. So I figured that for Cntrl-O, what literal-minded Unix really wanted was Control plus dash plus o. And it got things moving again. Emboldened by that success, I treated Cntrl-X the same way. Allan Atherton Unix whiz The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will be November 26 For more information, see <http://www.aye.net/~lcs>. A calendar of activities is at <http://www.calsnet.net/macusers>.
