Delinquent Right Alt key

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From: Patrick U. Hsieh x3145
Date: Mon, 25 Feb 1991 16:05

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Hi! Hopefully someone out there can help with this. I have a Gateway 386
system with (I believe) the Phoenix BIOS. The problem is that nothing seems
to recognize the right Alt key, which is really a pain when trying to use
anything like emacs. The key appears to be spitting out the correct codes
when depressed, so this sounds like a BIOS problem to me.

What's the best way to solve this? Should I write a TSR that intercepts the
keyboard interrupt and fiddles with the keyboard status flags
appropriately? Oh, I would also be interested in swapping some other keys,
namely the Caps Lock and the left Control key.

Thanks much!

Patrick Hsieh                                   puh@sarnoff.com
David Sarnoff Research Center

So many adventures couldn't happen today,       Alphaville
So many songs we forgot to play,                "Forever Young"
So many dreams swinging out of the blue,
We'll let them come true.

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From: puh@pecan.sarnoff.com (Patrick U. Hsieh   x3145)
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Subject: Delinquent Right Alt key
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Date: 25 Feb 91 16:05:06 GMT
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