Get Out Of Jail Free!

[Janina Sajka]

Toby:

My understanding is that he has two machines. Sometimes he uses
his Linux box natively. I don't believe it's all telnet sessions.

On Wed, 22 May 2002, Toby Fisher wrote:

> On Mon, 20 May 2002, Janina Sajka wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Do you know how to tell without speech whether or not you're at a
> > command line prompt? If you press back space and the speaker
> > beeps, you're there. If not, you aren't.
> 
> Hmmm, this is true, but once again, this may not work in a telnet session
> if your terminal isn't set right, quite likely under Winblows, but at
> least there you'll have your Winblows speech to help you.
> 
>  > Of course, if you've typed something on the command line,
> you'll > have to press back space that many times to erase what you've
> > typed first. But, once you've erased the command line, you will
> > get a beep from the speaker when you press backspace.
> Again, if the telnet client's terminal is broken, this functionality could
> also be absent.
> 
> <snip>
> 
> 

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				Janina Sajka, Director
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