Re: a XyWrite-on-Mac question

[Paul Williams paulwilliams5@xxxxxxxx]

The answer lies in your keyboard table. That is the great joy (OK, one of
the great joys) of XyWrite. You have a totally soft keyboard. You can make
any key you want caps lock. The first entries after all the commented out
description of keyboards sets your shift, alt, caps lock keys. Just put the
number of the key you wish to be caps lock there instead of the existing
number (58 on my keyboard.)

PS: as we are talking about keyboards is anybody out there using WRITER,
the Atex version of XyWrite, under Windows 95? I have an Atex keyboard -
with all the extra keys - that I would love to be able to use.

Come to that, does anyone know of a utility to allow you to customise
keyboards generally - not just for XyWrite?

Paul Williams

At 05:47 PM 10-05-99 -0400, you wrote:
>Dear all, I have to buy a new laptop (the days when
>computer magazine journalists got long-term loaners
>are alas quite over!), and would prefer, for many
>reasons, to get a Mac rather than a Wintel, though I am
>equally comfortable with both systems.
>
>The problem is XyWrite 4, without which I cannot live. It is
>more than possible to run XyWrite acceptably under the
>MacOS using an Intel PC emulator that lets you run DOS,
>Windows 95/98, or Windows NT.
>
>My problem is the CAPS LOCK KEY.
>
>On Mac keyboards, this is located directly to the right of the A key.
>On a Toshiba laptop, you can switch caps lock and Control. With
>Windows 95 (and I *think* 98 and NT) you can accomplish the
>same thing with any keyboard. And there are similar utilities that
>run under straight DOS.
>
>HOWEVER, to the best of my knowledge, this cannot be done when running
>DOS or Windows on a Mac -- desktop or laptop. Does anyone know
>for certain of a way to accomplish this? If it could be done, I would
>be very happy.