Something must be intercepting your control key (do you have any kind
of 'hotkey' programs running?).
In Unix land you will often see things like ^T, ^o, ^x, etc.
This usually means use the control key and that character together. In
situations where the control key is not working correctly, there is an
alternative hit the escape key twice then the character key.
Note: On some systems, the ^ symbol means type the escape key, but this
is not widely used anymore.
Jerry
On Friday, November 22, 2002, at 03:04 PM, Allan Atherton wrote:
> 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
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>
>
>
>
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>.
