IBM 243X Network Card User Manual


 
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Learning About the Terminal
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To enable Caps Lock
1. Press . The Modifier Key status icon turns on.
2. Press . The Caps Lock icon turns on and the Modifier Key icon turns off.
3. Type an alphabetic character. The letter appears as an uppercase character on the
terminals screen. The Caps Lock feature remains on until you disable it.
To type a lowercase letter with Caps Lock enabled
Press and an alphabetic character.
To disable Caps Lock
1. Press . The Modifier Key status icon turns on.
2. Press . The Caps Lock and Modifier Key status icons turn off.
3. Type an alphabetic character. The letter appears as a lowercase letter on the
terminals screen.
Using the International Keypads
You can order the 243X with an International keypad overlay that supports French,
German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. Like the U.S. English keypads, you use the
international keypad to enter all the characters printed on or above the keys. For help,
see Typing the Characters Printed on the Keypad on page 1-13. You can also use the
international keypad to type characters with diacritical marks.
To type characters with a diacritical mark
1.
(39-key keypad) Press . The Caps Lock status icon turns on.
2.
Press . The Modifier Key status icon turns on.
3.
Press the key that the diacritical mark appears above.
To Type 39-Key 57-Key
ˆ (circumflex)
` (grave)
¨ (umlaut)
´ (acute)
~ (tilde)
To flush the accent mark from the keypad buffer without entering any key, press
twice. The Modifier Key status icon turns off.