Re: Scotty gets out his flame thrower over ADB

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From: andrew
Date: Mon, 26 Oct 1992 22:19

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In article <1992Oct24.184745.19341@prim> dave@prim (Dave Griffiths) writes:
>Just to lob the ball back into NeXT's court: there must have been something
>lacking either in the documentation or the interface to make developers
>_want_ to interpret raw scan codes.

No.  NeXT provides a way to get what the user types without going down
to the metal.  While there are often reasons for breaking the rules,
this was not one of them.  It sounds like a case of one more thing
that is buried just a bit too deep in
/NextLibrary/Documentation/NextDev (there is a lot of stuff in there...).

andrew
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Subject: Re: Scotty gets out his flame thrower over ADB
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