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    1 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
    2 <!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
    3                    "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd">
    4 <refentry id='showkey.1'>
    5 <refmeta>
    6 <refentrytitle>showkey</refentrytitle>
    7 <manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
    8 <refmiscinfo class='date'>October 25, 1994</refmiscinfo>
    9 <refmiscinfo class='productname'>showkey</refmiscinfo>
   10 <refmiscinfo class='source'>showkey</refmiscinfo>
   11 <refmiscinfo class='manual'>Development Tools</refmiscinfo>
   12 </refmeta>
   13 <refnamediv id='name'>
   14 <refname>showkey </refname>
   15 <refpurpose>echo raw keystrokes back at you in a printable form</refpurpose>
   16 </refnamediv>
   17 <refsynopsisdiv id='synopsis'>
   18 
   19 <cmdsynopsis>
   20   <!--  showkey -->
   21   <command>showkey</command>
   22 </cmdsynopsis>
   23 
   24 </refsynopsisdiv>
   25 
   26 <refsect1 id='description'><title>DESCRIPTION</title>
   27 
   28 <para>This program puts your terminal in raw mode, eats keystrokes,
   29 and prints them back it you in a recognizable printed form. It will be
   30 useful if you're not certain what various keyboard keys are
   31 sending.</para>
   32 
   33 <para>Non-printables (and whitespace) are displayed as cookies
   34 surrounded by &lt; &gt;. The cookie will always contain an ASCII
   35 mnemonic (NUL, SOH, STX, ETX, EOT, ENQ, ACK, BEL, BS, HT, LF, VT, FF,
   36 CR, SO, SI, DLE, DC1, DC2, DC3, DC4, NAK, SYN, ETB, CAN, EM, SUB, ESC,
   37 FS, GS, RS, US, SP) and may also contain a control-key formula.</para>
   38 
   39 <para>Characters with the high bit set are shown as &lt;ALT-xxx&gt;,
   40 where xxx is generated as previously described. You terminate the
   41 program with your shell interrupt or quit characters.</para>
   42 </refsect1>
   43 
   44 <refsect1 id='bugs'><title>BUGS</title>
   45 <para>Under some (but not all) window managers you may see the
   46 following message: "Couldn't get a file descriptor referring to the
   47 console".  If this happens, go root and try again.</para>
   48 </refsect1>
   49 
   50 <refsect1 id='author'><title>AUTHOR</title>
   51 <para>Eric S. Raymond <email>esr@thyrsus.com</email></para>
   52 </refsect1>
   53 </refentry>
   54