Re: Curious behavior of two shifting keys

[Carl Distefano CLDistefano@xxxxxxxx]

Reply to note from Robert Hemenway  Fri, 25 Sep 1998
18:10:22

Interesting, Robert. I've been experiencing the same thing, but I
put it down to a failing keyboard. I never associated it with
FixPak 6, but it may well be the cause. I applied FP6 in March, but
seem to recall the keys first acting up more recently; I could be
wrong about that. I haven't applied FP 7 or 8, so if any FP is
causing the problem, it's 6. Like you, I've just been living with
it.

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Carl Distefano
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-> The left Alt (56) and right Ctrl (99) keys have been acting a
-> little strangely ever since I upgraded to XyW 4.017 last April
-> and added FixPak 6 to OS/2 Warp 4.
->
-> When I hit left Alt together with left Shift, or when I hit
-> right Ctrl together with right Shift or with right Shift plus
-> right Alt, the combination doesn't "take". That is, I get the
-> Shift table key assignment, or the Shift+Alt table key
-> assignment and nopt what I want. BUT if I hit the keys arpeggio
-> style, so that the misbehaving key has a moment to respond, all
-> is well. Otherwise, the performance of those two keys is
-> erratic . Only those two keys, and erratic only in these
-> combinations--left AS, right CS or CSA.