Re: Keymap description files

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From: Marco Papa
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 1988 19:10

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In article <594@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu| vkr@osupyr.mast.ohio-state.edu (Vidhyanath K. Rao) writes:
|The 500 and the 2000 have a few extra keys in the numeric keypad. The way
|to include them in the keymap seems not to be easily available. (May be
|they are in the 500/2000 tech. manual, but I don't have that.) The above
|must be related to this. 

Not so. They are easily available as keycodes 5A through 5E as follows:

(	5A
)	5B
/	5C
*	5D
+	5E

|I got interested in this because I want the keymap but with the extra
|keys recognised (for mg). I would like anyhelp you can give.

IF you have the A500/A2000 Workbench disk it should have a keymap named usa1.

Setmap usa1

should do the trick.

-- Marco Papa 'Doc'
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