This article was posted to the Usenet group alt.hackers in
1995; any technical information is probably outdated.
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Re: Simple Hack
Article: 7510 of alt.hackers Newsgroups: alt.hackers From: clgonsal@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (Carl Laurence Gonsalves) Subject: Re: Simple Hack Message-ID: D5Awo5.Au1@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: lhopital.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo Date: Sun, 12 Mar 1995 00:14:28 GMT Approved: Fred P. Friendly. Lines: 44 Status: RO
In article <3jskq2$qpn@mloeff01.elec.mid.gmeds.com>, Paul Smith <wz40ft@elec.mid.gmeds.com> wrote: [...] >As it turns out, ^[:wq is still only one character more than ^[:ZZ. Here's the >keystrokes to illustrate: > >ESC : w q RETURN (5 keys) >ESC SHIFT Z Z (4 keys) > >Phew. I can finally sleep nights now. Actually, on most keyboards I've seen, ":" == "SHIFT ;", so it should be: ESC SHIFT ; w q RETURN vs ESC SHIFT z z Personally, I always use "ESC SHIFT ; x RETURN"... ObHack: One of my computers is an Amiga 2000 with the original graphics chip. One of the GIF viewers I use on it is much better at all the others I have, except that it would always crash on certain images. I eventually figured out that it was images of certain sizes that would kill it. I think it was something like, if the width was >= 800 or the height was >= 600 then it would become toast. I had already written a little screen promotion utility for the Amiga, so I dug out the source and modified it to just give me stats on every attempt to open a screen. It looked like the GIF viewer was trying to open a screen with a really weird display ID. I looked through the Autodocs, and sure enough, the viewer was trying to open a VGA screen, and dying miserably when my poor OCS chipset couldn't take it. So I then scanned through it with a hex-editor, and modified it so that large images would still work. (I think I'd just looked for the VGA display key, which only existed in the file once, and then I changed it to a display key my machine could handle) -- Carl Laurence Gonsalves - clgonsal@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/u/clgonsal/ Computer Science, University of Waterloo
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