ok, in that case, what the hell do you do when your keyboard won't responde to anything. I had this happen the other night and the only way I could get out of it was the reset button. ctrl+alt+del wouldn't even work. oh well, it's probably bound to happen once in a blue moon right? Shaun.. Cat, n.: Lapwarmer with built-in buzzer. Email: shauno at goanna.net.au On 11 Sep 2001, Kirk Reiser wrote: > This is the windows mentality personified. You almost never have to > reboot your computer. If you are in telnet and it crashes you can > usually get out of it by doing a control-] which will give you a > telnet> prompt. Once there you can type quit to exit. If for some > reason you cannot get the telnet prompt, you can change to another > console and type killall telnet, or whatever the program is named that > you are running. > > If your console gets into a fucked up state, that is garbage > characters for your prompt. You can type reset to reset the console > and then stty sane to get your standard options back. > > Kirk > > -- > > Kirk Reiser The Computer Braille Facility > e-mail: kirk at braille.uwo.ca University of Western Ontario > phone: (519) 661-3061 > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
