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Re: BREAK in freevt3k
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"James B. Byrne" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 19 Apr 2021 14:29:37 -0400
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On Mon, April 19, 2021 12:57, Craig Lalley wrote:
> Is this documented?  How on earth did you figure it out?
> -Craig
>

As usual, somebody on the list had the answer.  In this case Frank McConnell
provided the answer:

> Default “break character” would I think be NUL (^@).  Seems to work
> that way on my macosx build.  Pressing it three times quickly makes
> freevt3k prompt me for a command ("Please enter FREEVT3K command
> (Exit or Continue) :”) which accepts ‘c’ or ‘e’ in a case-insensitive
> way.  If I choose to continue I find a break has been sent.


The rest I poked and prodded to see what would work after looking at 'freevt3k
-h'.


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