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In article <Bz7xDE.A9u@optimla.aimla.com> walter@optimla.aimla.com (Walter Hunt) writes:
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>	I posted a while ago about wierd problems with my keyboard under
>DEMACS.  Well, I found a way to make those problems go away, but I'll be
>damned if I understand why. If I take \WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS out of my
>CONFIG.SYS, the keyboard then acts normally!! I'm assuming that what is
>happening is that DEMACS wants a flat address space, and some kind of DOS
>brain-damaged "page everything into and out of a 16K spot in "high memory"
>stuff" is hosing DEMACS.

Demacs works fine on my machine with \WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS loaded.  No keyboard
problems whatsoever.

>If there is another explanation that makes sense, feel free to let me know.
>(Actually, since the application that I'm working on is showing some kind of
>conflict also, PLEASE feel free to let me know what might be happening here.)

Since you did not post a complete copy of your CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT
files, it is difficult to determine in your configuration what might be your
problem.

>	Now, however, I have a new problem. My <ALT> key no longer functions
>as a Meta key. Before removing HIMEM.SYS, I could get <ALT> to set a Meta
>bit, just like it's supposed to. Now no way. I'm afraid I've been using Emacs
>on real keyboards/machines way too long to go back to using <ESC><key>. Does
>anyone know how I can get my Meta key back?

Do you have some other memory manager loaded?  Sounds like you have something
else loaded that interferes with HIMEM.SYS and Demacs.  Or you have a keyboard
bios that isn't truly compatible.

>(And while I'm at it, does anyone have a TSR or something to swap the
>&^%$%#(* CAPS LOCK key and the <CTRL> key to the spaces God meant for them to
>occupy?)

There is a TSR packaged as keyfix.zip (or something like that) which should be
available just about everywhere.  It does what you want.

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