From: Ed Carp (erc@apple.com)
Date: 08/09/93


From: erc@apple.com (Ed Carp)
Subject: Re: How to turn NUM LOCK off at boot?  How to slow character repeat?
Date: Mon, 9 Aug 1993 22:47:02 GMT

Mark Eichin (eichin@tweedledumber.cyGNUs.com) wrote:

: or, there's been a simple program posted to the KERNEL channel in
: response to this discussion there... you don't need to build a kernel
: to "fix" NUM_LOCK, just build and run this:

The problem with this is (1) You gotta run it on every console, and (2)
you gotta hack your /etc/rc. I'd rather build it into the kernel, and be
done with it. I've got a small patch file that I apply to every new kernel
that makes my cursor a block cursor and turns num lock off.

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