Re: [TCLUG:774] key strokes

["JoshB [JellyD]" <joshb@techie.com>]

Sometime around the 31st of July in 1998, the wannabe 3|173 h4ck3r Bob Tanner sed:

> Quoting Scot Jenkins (swjenkins@ibm.net):
> > ctrl+alt+num plus	next resolution under X
> > ctrl+alt+num minus	prior resolution under X
> > ctrl+alt+backspace	kill X server
> 
> What does the shift-scroll lock do? Does nothing for me.


joshb@jellyd:~:$ Mem-info:
Free pages:       58292kB
 ( 7*4kB 5*8kB 1*16kB 1*32kB 1*64kB 454*128kB = 58292kB)
Swap cache: add 0/0, delete 143748/0, find 0/0
Free swap:       130748kB
22528 pages of RAM
14613 free pages
838 reserved pages
4530 pages shared
Buffer memory:     2084kB
Buffer heads:      2146
Buffer blocks:     2116
   CLEAN: 1598 buffers, 40 used (last=813), 0 locked, 0 protected, 0 dirty
  LOCKED: 504 buffers, 41 used (last=495), 0 locked, 0 protected, 0 dirty
   DIRTY: 6 buffers, 0 used (last=0), 0 locked, 0 protected, 6 dirty


.. That's what <shift><scroll-lock> does on my machine.

I can't get <shift><pgup/dn> to do anything noticeable; same goes for
<ctrl><sysrq>.

I do know, however, that if (at a normal bash prompt) you hit <shift>-#,
then a character, it'll print that character # number of times.

I don't know that it's useful, but it's always fun watching a bash process
take up all your memory and swap by doing (hold shift)<shift>-1234567890
and then hitting a letter and waiting <g>

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