Re: SWEEP WORKS! searching subdirectories

[Judith Davidsen jdavidsen@xxxxxxxx]

Robert--

Still no joy. I even assigned NIBK to ctrl 21 (Y) and got
nowhere.

I'm on a Dell Inspiron 3200 with Win98SE. Maybe that's got
something to do with the problem.

But thanks for thinking of me, and, as I've said before, I'd
way rather use an unbreakable SWEEP than Explorer's Find.

Judith

Robert Holmgren wrote:
>
> ** Reply to message from Robert Holmgren  on Wed, 31 Jul
> 2002 09:47:07 -0400
>
> Judith, a brief followup to our discussion of the BreaK key:
>
> > Laptops have strange keyboard handlers, in my experience. First thing you need
> > to do is set up a benign test environment. Open a file. Command:
> > "defto$". The program will wait for you to input a keystroke. Test
> > various key combinations to try to BreaK out of it (success=PRompt "Stop
> > program? (Y/N)"). You may need Function-Alt-Break, or Function-Ctrl-Break. On
> > my present laptop (a Thinkpad T23) it's just Alt-Break (no Fn key; Win2K
> > pre-SP3).
>
> I should have added one more piece of information -- and some subsequent
> experimentation and off-list discussion indicates that it is important:
>
> Func BK, BreaK, usually assigned to many permutations of the Pause/Break key
> (key #90 in the KBD TABLEs), does seem flaky running under modern OSes.
> Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. The problem is that modern OSes assign
> a high priority to key 90, so they take control of that key away from XyWrite
> and other applications (cf. Ctrl-Escape). The cure for this behavior is --
> guess what! -- func NI (No_Interrupt), used thus:
>  Change
> 90=BK
>  to
> 90=NI,BK
>  or just (save a byte of KBD memory)
> 90=NIBK
>
> That will confine your keystroke to XyWrite, and activate a *XyWrite* BreaK in
> almost all situations. Tested under OS/2 MCP2 (=v4.52) and Win2K SP3. Anyone
> who's ever had trouble with BreaKing out of anything should change every
> instance of 90=BK to 90=NIBK.
>
> -----------------------------
> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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