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Re: F5--and everything went black...



Wolfgang Bechstein wrote:

I think you're on the right track. On my rather old HP Omnibook XE3, 
the Fn-F5 key combination through some weird feat of unintended black
magic, pressing F5 in Xy
sends a scan code that is interpreted by the
laptop as Fn-F5.

That's by no means impossible. I once had a laptop that invoked the
number pad over the keys i,k,comma, etc. with an Fn key. Attempts to enter ASCII values using ALT-numpad (this was back in XyIII days, IIRC) yielded nothing. Then, by mere chance, I discovered that ALT+ the numbers in the ordinary top row of the keyboard would work.
 
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Patricia M. Godfrey
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