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In article <1992Dec14.182943.10499@digi.lonestar.org>, kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher) writes:
|> In article <Bz7xDE.A9u@optimla.aimla.com> walter@optimla.aimla.com (Walter Hunt) writes:
|> >
|> >	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.
|> 


	Well, after getting rid of HIMEM.SYS and using QEMM386.SYS, all of my
wierd keyboard troubles disappeared. I do believe I may have a PC-incompatible,
rather than a PC-compatible, but it seems close enough for QEMM386. Now if I
could just get that Desqview/X stuff working over the net . . .



|> >	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?


	Oops! I feel stoopid. I didn't add the appropriate (setq pc-type . . .)
thingy to my _emacs. (Or rather, didn't set USER and HOME so that demacs would
FIND my _emacs.) Once I fixed that, I had Alt keys again.


|> >(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.

	Great! Soon as I get this and copy over my .emacs (for key-bindings,
don't-you-know), I'll be in hog heaven.

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