ec,

No offence taken nor intended.  We are all here to
share, and give and take what we can.

Marshall
--- ec <eculbert@yahoo.com> wrote:

> Being probably MORE of a newbie than you. I have no
> clue what hex number it creates. 
> 
> Somewhere in the back of my mind, from way too long
> ago, I think I remember something about both control
> and alt being sorta similiar to the shift key in
> that
> they alter whatever the following keystoke sends as
> a
> number. I too was surprised that crlt-alt-del was/is
> coded as crtlaltdel in linux on that line. Oh, well,
> just a newboo here 'opening foot inserting mouth'.
> 
> Please don't be offended by what I wrote, I didn't
> have a clue as to how 'puter savvy you are. That is
> what I wrote and tried not to offend anyone. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> --- Marshall Paul <mbpaulsr@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > ec,
> > 
> > I realize that control, alt, and delete are NOT
> > commands.  I didn't know that crtlaltdel was not a
> > command. My real goal was to break down each
> element
> > of this command string and understand it. 
> > ca::ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t5 -h -a now  I
> fully
> > understand the shutdown command but do not
> > understand
> > the ca::ctrlaltdel: portion and could not find
> > documentation on it.  I can only assume out of my
> > ignorance that ca captures keyboard strokes and ::
> > if
> > equal to ctrlaltdel executes what follows the :. 
> If
> > that is so what number represents ctrlaltdel and
> how
> > is it derived?  Can the the raw (HEX code)number
> be
> > substituted for ctrlaltdel?
> > 
> > Inquiring minds would like to know.
> > 
> > 
> > Marshall
> > 
> > 
> > 
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