Get Out Of Jail Free!

[Janina Sajka]

You can redirect out to your print spool with the greater than
symbol as follows:

tail myfile > /dev/lp

Notice that redirection is more useful than hotkeys because you
can also redirect output to a file or another
process/application.

On Mon, 20 May 2002, Octavian Rasnita wrote:

> Hi, thank you.
> I've seen  the other message and I've asked this question.
> 
> ... and of course, I've tried with alt+function keys but nothing happend. I
> will try with control+alt now.
> 
> Regarding hotkeys, is it possible to define some hotkeys, like
> control+shift+ a letter or number  and assign a command line to this hotkey?
> It would be nice to press Control+shift+e for printing the last few lines of
> a log file using the tail command.
> 
> Thsnks.
> Teddy,
> orasnita at home.ro
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Janina Sajka" <janina at afb.net>
> To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 4:06 AM
> Subject: Re: Get Out Of Jail Free!
> 
> 
> My last message assumed something that should probably not be
> assumed.
> 
> You need to know how to change consoles.
> 
> By default, you have six that you can have different identities
> in. For example, you can be your ordinary username in consoles 1,
> 3, 4, 5, and 6, but be root in console 2.
> 
> Use Ctrl-Alt plus the first six function keys to switch consoles.
> In other words, Ctrl-Alt-F1 (meaning the function key labeled f1
> to the right of Esc) will take you to console 1, Ctrl-Alt-F2 will
> take you to the second console, etc.
> 
> PS: I give these instructions with Ctrl, because that's what we
> should start getting used to. People who've been doing this with
> just Alt should know that they'll have to add the Ctrl in order
> to get out of X, and Gnopernicus is coming, so it's time to get
> ready.
> 
> 
> --
> 
> Janina Sajka, Director
> Technology Research and Development
> Governmental Relations Group
> American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)
> 
> Email: janina at afb.net Phone: (202) 408-8175
> 
> Chair, Accessibility SIG
> Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
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				Janina Sajka, Director
				Technology Research and Development
				Governmental Relations Group
				American Foundation for the Blind (AFB)

Email: janina at afb.net		Phone: (202) 408-8175

Chair, Accessibility SIG
Open Electronic Book Forum (OEBF)
http://www.openebook.org