Re: Getting Pause to work in Xy3.55 under Win95

[Wolfgang Bechstein wolfie@xxxxxxxx]

Robert Holmgren  advised:

> CAll your current KBD file. Comment out, in each table, the "90=" line
> Put a new line in that reads as follows:
>
> 90=BC,9,0
> >
> >Put that line in EACH of your tables -- even if there is no spec for key
> #90 in a table.

And Bob Zimmerman  wrote:

> Done. What happens now when I hit the pause key: first, absolutely nothing.
> Then, if I hit ANY other key, the cursor jumps to the command line where 90
> is now displayed. From you have written, this would indicate that Pause is
> usable in Xywrite, but maybe not in an unshifted state?

I saw the most recent installment of this saga only minutes after I
had sent off my earlier message. Just to make sure, I followed
Robert's suggestion once more, this time to the letter, namely
putting the "BC,9,0 stuff" really in *every* table in the keyboard
file (whereas earlier I just had tried some isolated tables by
themselves). And I'll be durned: "90" now appears on the command line
whenever I press the Pause key, whether shifted or not (but unlike in
Bob Zimmerman's experience, here it even appears immediately, without
having to press another key). So this indeed suggests two things: the
Pause key *can* be made to work in Xy under Win95 (although SCANCODE
still comes up blank), and Robert Holmgren *is* a genius (if
sometimes a slightly disgruntled one).

Wolfgang Bechstein
wolfie@xxxxxxxx