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Re: DECstation 3100 info.

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From: Richard Wood
Date: Thu, 26 Jan 1989 01:40
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In article <617@blake.acs.washington.edu> lgy@blake.acs.washington.edu (Laurence Yaffe) writes:
>On an unrelated note, does someone know if the keyboard of the DECstation 3100
>has a reasonably-placed escape key?

Unfortunately no, the DEC keyboards were designed for an office
environment where the Escape key is meaningless.  There are actually
three escape keys:

Always <esc>:	Control-3 and Control-[
Sometimes:	F11 (Function key 11)
		(depending on a settable mode of the terminal)
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Does it need saying that I'm not speaking as an official representative of DEC?
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Richard Wood  !  U. S. Worksystems, Palo Alto  !  Digital Equipment Corporation
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From: richard@vajra.uucp (Richard Wood)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
Subject: Re: DECstation 3100 info.
Summary: location of <esc> on DEC keyboard
Message-ID: <358@granite.dec.com>
Date: 26 Jan 89 01:40:38 GMT
References: <420@laic.UUCP> <2051@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <617@blake.acs.washington.edu>
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