Jordan wrote:And once upon a time, the Ctrl key was next to the "a" key and the Function keys next to them. How IBM put over the current mess is beyond me.Once upon a time, the key scancodes were pretty standardized and unchanging -- at least for most desktop systems. The vast menagerie of laptops changed all that (or so it seems to me), and by this point it's anyone's guess.Excuse the rant, I'm over-caffeineated from my trip to Starbucks. Harry Binswanger hb@xxxxxxxx