Re: Sporadic problems with *.KBD defs under OS/2

[Leslie Bialler lb136@xxxxxxxx]

> Dropping in the NI *throughout* was not a good idea. Unshift 51 wouldn't
> produce a comma when it read *51=ni,,* I haven't taken the time to go back
> to see what others keys were thrown askew or why the ALT keys were acting
> up. Just went back to the earlier KBD and changed the shift-key names on
> that.
>
No, it wouldn't. It reads the first comma as a separator and doesn't
know what to do with the second one. 51=ni,co might have worked. But so
long as you're content . . .

>
> That's the difference between XyWrite, which was designed to be a tool, and
> the products that dominate the market--which are meant to be machines. The
> managers who buy the products *want* machines. They're simpler to control.
> Or so they think.
>

Quite so. If I ever locate the nitwit at Microsoft who thought keyboards
should have those extra "windows" keys between the ctrl and the alt keys
that I (and I suppose many fellow XyWriters) hit by accident and find
ourselves back at the desktop I will . . . I will . . . throw a pie at
him. Yes. A pie!

--Leslie--

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Leslie Bialler
Columbia University Press
lb136@xxxxxxxx