I believe that this can also be turned on in the BIOS settings of most
machines. I know all of my machines have this capability.
-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Bogdan Taru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, April 23, 1999 12:04 AM
Subject: Re: Num Lock
>Hey! Did you see what Bogdan Taru wrote on Apr 22 ?
>
>BT>
>BT> Hi,
>BT> What can I do so that I would get the Num Lock on every time I boot?
>
>Put the following in in one of your boot-up scripts (rc.local)...
>
>echo "Turning on the NumLock for all consoles..."
>for t in 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
>do
>setleds +num < /dev/tty$t > /dev/null
>done
>
>
>Regards, Steve Youngs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ICQ: 34307457
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