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If you hold down the shift key and type a couple of letters fast
e.g. L and P, sometimes you will get a phantom null (^@) keypress
between the letters.  Has anyone else encountered this?  The easiest
(and safest) way of doing this is to get into a command line interpreter
and try it; you should get a line like:

{d} LPLPLPLPL^@PLPLPL^@P

if you type fast enough.  (I tried it with Mark Williams shell)

I first met it while typing HLP in me3.7 using the shift key instead of
caps lock.  What happened was the help screen would get called up! I
suppose this was because the help function was bound to some function
key, and the phantom keypress had the upper 8 bits of the word set to some
garbage.  Actually sometimes the computer crashed, and I lost about
fifteen minutes typing the first time; most irritating. 

I assume the driver software could not keep up with my typing and the
extra processing involved with the shift key press (see, even 68000s can't
keep up with my typing:- has anyone had this sort of problem on a Cray? 8^).
Any comments?  Atari?


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