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At some time during operation under the Hand s hake
protocol , the Keybo a rd m ay become locked. That is , ch arac-
ter s typed into it will be ignored. If this occurs, the K bd Locked
indicator will revert to true. If you wish to e nter characters into
the MacTerminal document and the keyboard is locked,
unl ock th e keyboard by selec ting Un lock Key board from the
Commands menu .
The indicator s L I thru L4 are used wh en the Mac is
emulating the popular Digital Equipment Corporation (DECM)
VTlOO
terminal type. They indicate information concerning
th e sta tus of the terminal.
R et urn to the Terminal Settings window at this tim e so
th at we may re view the rest of the items within. Normally ,
when typing onto the doc ument for any M ac application, the
Mac will repeat characters if a key is pressed and held. With the
Ma cTe rminal docum e nt , thi s feature is controll ed by th e Auto
Repeat item. When it is turned off, chara cters will not repeat if
a key is held
down .
One import a nt f ea ture with the M ac Writ e document was
the Wr a paround fun ct ion . When a line extended to the rig ht
margin of the document , th e characters were wrapp ed a round
to th e n ex t line. Although th e MacWrit e Wraparound function
pl aced an e ntir e wo rd on the next line, the MacTerminal
document will Wraparound the characters individually when
th e Auto Wraparound item is selected. When un selecte d, th e
char
ac ters pa st the right m arg in of th e document will overwrite
th e last character in the line.
When the New Line item is selected, the cursor will line
feed
to the next line in th e document wh en th e Re turn key is
pr essed. In other words , with New Line selected, pressing the
Return key will generate both a Return and a Line Feed
cha racter. Otherwise, the curso r will r et urn to th e fir st column
of th e same line it was on.