From: "bdeck" <bdeck AT lycos DOT co DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: sys/ioctl.h turned off?
Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2003 18:20:24 +0200
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"Richard Dawe" <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote in message
news:3F2D8B2B DOT FF88A4C6 AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk...
> Hello.
>
> Hans-Bernhard Broeker wrote:
> >
> > Richard Dawe <rich AT phekda DOT freeserve DOT co DOT uk> wrote:
> >
> > > * It crashes if you do Ctrl+P. I have no idea why.
> >
> > Did you keep in mind that Ctrl-P is a special hotkey in DOS, to turn
> > on hardcopy to printer of all following screen output that goes
> > through DOS calls?  For a modern PC, this kills the program more often
> > than not, because there's no printer attached to the parallel port.

It might be possible to compile tclsh with termcap-based readline support.
This remaps CTRL-P to be the "up-arrow" key for PythonD. But I am not sure
it's right. Just a thought.


Ben