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- Date: Sat, 7 Nov 92 22:02:39 EST
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- From: "Jerome T. Walsh" <walshj@SJUVM.STJOHNS.EDU>
- Subject: Is this a fug or a beature?
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- I have heard the knowledgeable speak of Ctrl-Alt-Esc as if it performed some
- wonderful (undocumented?) function in NB3.x. Quite honestly, I didn't pay
- much attention since it sounded a bit too arcane for me. But this evening,
- in Lingua, aiming for an ayin, I hit Esc by accident. My, oh, my! My
- colors turned to bright lavender on black, with chartreuse fn call nos, neon
- blue underlining and bright red orange italics. Where are my sunglasses??
- After much pondering and playing, I noticed that the on-screen characters
- had changed too. The video font set was no longer the Lingua set but the
- slightly larger ASCII set. (And I couldn't get on-screen exotic
- diacriticals, Hebrew, Greek, etc., though this was not true every time I
- tried the experiment...) After much more playing, I finally discovered that
- Ctrl-Esc would return me to Lingua colors and screen fonts. In ASCII,
- Ctrl-Alt-Esc changes the screen colors but leaves the screen font alone. I
- have no idea what this is supposed to be good for, or if it is doing other
- things I'm not aware of, but it was startling, to say the least. Can
- anybody enlighten me on it?
- Jerome T. Walsh walshj@sjuvm.stjohns.edu.internet
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