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Re: Keyboard problems

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From: rworne
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 23:53
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In <3kcn92$4un@uhost1.servtech.com>, deb@karma.roc.servtech.com  (Debbie Brown) writes:
>In <3k3m97$8je@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU>, s9312643@minyos.xx.rmit.EDU.AU (George Vlahoulis) writes:
>>Hi I use epm for writing c code for os2 and for the last few weeks epm
>>has somehow disabled the keyboard completly. I mean no CTRL-ALT-Del no
>>nothing works. its like if the keyboard does not exist. Twice I had the
>>keyboard back again just like nothing had happened and I dont have a clue
>>as to what is causing it.
>
>I've had this problem in a Win-OS/2 session.  Just typing, then nothing.  Once in
>a while, my shift key acts like it's being held down, sometimes it's my control
>key.  Usually, I just lose all access to the keyboard and have to shut down the
>windows session and start it up again (once, I had to reboot!).
>

I noticed a similar problem with my KB.  In fact, after I replaced it, it didn't
go away (but it is gone now).  While working in the System Editor, or in Turbo
Pascal 7.0 (A dos program) I would get odd characters when using the arrow keys,
these usually show up as brackets or capital letters & the keyboard would not
respond until
I learned that tapping on the right or left shift key will undo the problem.

>>I noticed though the the lock outs have been when the cursor was next a
>>right bracket. Now I never had problems with epm before, and btw I
>>installed the os2 with win-os2 that comes with the DAP 6 cds.
>

Windows I don't know about, I don't use it.

As I said, the problem is gone now, and I haven't the slightest idea why.

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From: rworne@primenet.com
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Subject: Re: Keyboard problems
Date: 20 Mar 1995 23:53:01 GMT
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