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

["R Tennenbaum" raphaelt@xxxxxxxx]

On Sat, 12 Dec 1998 14:01:58 EST, Robert Holmgren wrote:

>> cursor instead of executing the program mapped to the key combination,
>> and SHIFT-ALT+T likewise sometimes just produces a "T" at the cursor.
>> This happens both in windowed and full-screen sessions.
>
>Sometimes, but not always? Have you tried, as a less drastic solution than backing
>out of the FP, putting NI on the malfunctioning keys, i.e. "nn=NI..." so that it
>doesn't leak through to DOS? I would not be so sure that it's IBMKBD.SYS that's
>offending here -- I do believe that XyWrite's keyboard controller has pretty full
>authority. But what does your "DEVINFO=KBD..." spec say? What are the dates on
>IBMKBD.SYS and KEYBOARD.DCP?


It does seem as though the NI fix alleviates the problem -- under
Xywrite -- and RH's suggestion is great.

However, my experience is that backleveling IBMKBD.SYS fixes OS/2
keyboard problems with other applications & there seems to be a sort of
usenet concensus about this. So, do both.

-RT