On Mon, 20 Jan 2003, Andrew Brown wrote:

> >I have a newly installed i386 (Celeron) box. Just after the kernel has
> >loaded (when the text on the screen turns from green to white) the system
> >types "B: not found" on the screen. At system shutdown serveral lines with
> >the same text are printed. Does anyone know what's wrong?

You need to install a second floppy drive. :-)

> a stray B can occur by accident if
> you're using vi to edit something and the escape character portion of
> the down arrow key arrives some interval before the other two
> characters.  i don't really know why this happens (all the characters
> should arrive at the same time afaict), but it does.  and it annoys
> me.

Slow serial line? No, more likely a laggy network connection. Anyway, in
your .exrc you can :set escapetime to something higher than 1/10 of a
second if you like, to fix that problem. Try a value between 3 and 6.

cjs
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