Re: NB 4.2: Cry for help with erratic keyboard

[Leslie Bialler <lb136>]

"Schlabach, Gerald W." wrote:
> 
> Dear friends:
> 
> Anyone who is obsessive-compulsive about following this list may recall that
> over the last couple of months I have been helping my father, a veteran NB
> user, migrate to a new XP system.  His preference is still to use NB 4, and
> what he owns is 4.2 not 4.5.  New York's policy is that it can no longer
> provide technical support for DOS versions, and although I vaguely remember
> a discussion about "sticky keys" that may relate to our problem, the Hamline
> search engine is not currently allowing me to search the archives for this
> list.  So we turn to this list and hope to jog someone's memory.
> 

Yep. This is a problem that plagues all DOS versions of XyWrite and so I
suppose NB as well. One solution is to edit your keyboard file, changing
the spelling of the names CAPS, CONTROL, and SHIFT at the top of the
file.

CTRL=29,99
ALT=56,98
SHIFT=42,54
CAPS=58,T:C

to (e.g.):

KTRL=29,99
ALTT=56,98
SHIFF=42,54
KAPS=58,T:C

That should do it. Hopefully Carl DeStefano will jump in to explain why
this all happens, but I can tell you this is the most ancient of bugs. I
first discovered it running XyWrite 3.54 in 1989. And since the DOS
versions of NB have apparently been abandoned, and the Tech Group is no
more, nobody ever well fix it. Assuming anyone even knows how.





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