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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to make alt=meta?
Date: 2 Oct 1995 00:34:18 +0100
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Darrel Herbst <dherbst@gradient.cis.upenn.edu> wrote:
>I looked at kcon & keycap, but kcon terminates with an ioctl() related
>error.  Would someone be willing to explain what has to be done to map
>the left-alt key to function as the meta key at the tcsh prompt & in
>emacs?

Which console driver, syscons [default], or pcvt?
-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)