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Article #6862Re: Keyboard problems
From: rworne
Date: Mon, 20 Mar 1995 23:53
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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Microsoft Network is prohibited from redistributing this work in any form, in whole or in part. Copyright, Robert Worne, 1995. License to distribute this post is available to Microsoft for $1000. Posting without permission constitutes an agreement to these terms. Please send notices of violation to Postmaster@microsoft.com ///////////////////---------------------------------------------------------- // Robert Worne // E-mail: rworne@primenet.com // -=Team OS/2=- // IP Address: 192.83.199.156 ///////////////////----------------------------------------------------------
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1044c2,731d11d982a2981c X-Google-Attributes: gid1044c2,public X-Google-Thread: 10a752,731d11d982a2981c X-Google-Attributes: gid10a752,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1995-03-20 15:53:01 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp.gmd.de!dearn!blekul11!ccsdec1.ufsia.ac.be!reks.uia.ac.be!idefix.CS.kuleuven.ac.be! Belgium.EU.net!EU.net!howland.reston.ans.net!news.sprintlink.net!news.primenet.com!usenet From: rworne@primenet.com Newsgroups: aus.computers.os2,comp.os.os2.misc Subject: Re: Keyboard problems Date: 20 Mar 1995 23:53:01 GMT Organization: -=Team OS/2=- Lines: 42 Message-ID: <3kl4gu$mbs@news.primenet.com> References: <3k3m97$8je@aggedor.rmit.EDU.AU> <3kcn92$4un@uhost1.servtech.com> Reply-To: rworne@primenet.com (Robert Worne) NNTP-Posting-Host: rworne.lax.primenet.com X-Newsreader: IBM NewsReader/2 v1.09