Control key, mouse cursor, floppy boot, ksh window.
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mark at jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV
Wed Feb 20 13:29:33 AEST 1991
* First, the canonical (but accurate) header:
* I'm new to the net.
* I'm sure what I'm asking has been answered before, but I
couldn't find anything in comp.sources.3b1
* I'm looking for information on the following:
* How can you (short of cutting and jumpering the pc board)
interchange the functions of the (left)control and caps-lock
keys? I believe it can be done in software, and suspect it
involves /etc/ioctl.syscon, which is tersely documented in
init.1m. The ioctl.syscon on my system contains the single
line:
d26:1805:bd:2b:0:7f:1c:8:40:4:0:0:0
(uname on my system responds: 3.5).
* How can you change the shape (icon) of the mouse cursor? I
have experimented with the WIOCSETMOUSE ioctl, using MSICON
in the um_flags field of struct umdata. (Doc. in window.7,
font.4, /usr/include/sys/window.h, /usr/include/sys/font.h).
I can't get it to work.
* Is there any way to modify hard disk files when booting with
the diagnostic (or some other type of) floppy disk? If you
mess up something (e.g. /unix, /etc/rc, /etc/ioctl.syscon),
is there any way to recover, boot from an alternate kernel,
etc., short of formatting the disk and re-loading all the
software?
* If anyone's interested (although I assume this is yesterday's news
in this group), I have code that pops up an arbitrary-sized window
with ksh running in it. I do not use TAM: My /etc/passwd shell is
just ksh, because I want a full-size 80x24 window. But it's nice
to be able to suspend and go to the other window to kill a hung
process.
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