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  • Subject: Re: Here's a fix for the sysreq problem
  • From: pcunnane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Paul Cunnane)
  • Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 08:55:18 -0700

>As far as I know, you should be able to set up your keyboard map to use 
>Shift-Esc for SysReq...  I know that I currently have mine mapped so that 
>Shift-PrintScreen (which actually says "SysRq" on it) is SysReq.

Yup.
     
>The reason I don't feel that the little SysReq command line is important 
>is that all the functionality of SysReq is available without it.  My shop 
>is different than yours in that I don't like my users hitting SysReq-1 to 
>switch sessions.  Its much safer for a variety of reasons to simply have 
>them run two tn5250 sessions (or whatever software they're running) in 
>seperate windows, than to use SysReq-1.

Normally, yes.  Unfortunately, as a JDE shop, most of our users are 
restricted to a single session, else they would devour interactive 
licenses.  SysReq-1 gives them two sessions for the price (literally!) of 
one.
     
>I agree that having the SysReq command line would be a convienience.  But 
>I'd rather see them fix the bugs in the emulator rather than add something 
>like this :)

Fair enough!
     
>By the way, how are you coming on that RPG Emacs mode? :)

Someday, the gods will grant me time to work on it...!

-- 
Paul
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