FW: More tedium

[rachel rpowers@xxxxxxxx]

Below is the text from two messages that I sent out yesterday. I received a
few gracious responses, but it seems that my husband guessed the problem:

VirtualPC came loaded with DOS 2000. We scrapped it and loaded up an old
copy of DOS 6.22. Voila! All problems solved.

I am now trying out xy4 for the first time; can't say I like it as much as
xy3+, though. Time will tell.

Thx







------ Forwarded Message
> From: rachel 
> Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2001 22:34:18 -0800
> To: 
> Subject: More tedium
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> I am having an odd III+ problem:
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> I just installed xyIII+ and now my caps lock key is acting buggy. If I hit
> it, the "C" indicator will flicker on and off, along with the capitals.
> Invariably, I end up stuck in a state where the light on the key is off,
> indicating that I should be typing in a normal mode, but the "C" indicator is
> on and I only get capitals when I type.
>
> This sets a number of keyboard oddities in motion. My up and down arrows will
> work, but the right and left arrows do nothing. All of my function keys--with
> the exception of F5--stop working as they are supposed to and instead
> reactivate the caps lock button (if I do manage to get it turned off).
>
> The only way to fix this is to quite xy and restart. If I stay away from the
> caps lock key then I am ok. But the moment I press it, I'm screwed.
>
> Btw, I've tried disabling the key; doesn't seem to work.
>
> This problem doesn't occur in any other program. Perhaps I need a more
> up-to-date keyboard file?
>
> Thanks for your help...

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I just installed VirtualPC, and I have xy III+ up and running. It's great.

Unfortunately, when I try to install xy4 I get a "critical dos error"
message.

Any ideas about what this is or how to get around it?