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From: torda@igc.ethz.ch (Andrew Torda)
Subject: pccons.c swallows a null character [NetBSD 0.9]
Message-ID: <CCrrFz.8Hz@bernina.ethz.ch>
Keywords: pccons.c null character sputc sgetc
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Organization: Computational Chemistry, ETH, Zuerich
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 1993 08:26:22 GMT
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I want to be able to generate a null \000 character from my
keyboard, but NetBSD doesn't seem to want to let me.
Emacs, for example, really wants a null character.
In usr/src/sys/arch/i386/isa/pccons.c there is a table
called
static Scan_def scan_codes[] =
and this seems to have a line
ASCII, "2", "@", "\000", /* 3 2 */
which wants to insert a null for ctrl-2.
I also inserted a null character in the table for ctrl-space
(which I think is where god meant it to be), but, after
recompiling the kernel, that didn't help either.
My kernel is compiled without XSERVER defined.
Who is swallowing up my null characters ?
sgetc(), sputc() ?
This is with NetBSD 0.9 and with the following version of
pccons.c
* from: @(#)pccons.c 5.11 (Berkeley) 5/21/91
* pccons.c,v 1.28 1993/07/12 11:37:17 mycroft Exp
I would be grateful for any suggestions (but please don't
tell me to rebind set-mark-command in emacs).
Thanks
-Andrew
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Andrew Torda, Computational Chemistry, ETH, Zurich, torda@igc.ethz.ch