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From: jaltman@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Jeffrey Altman)
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Subject: Re: Keyboard problems with K-95
Date: 1 Oct 1998 12:21:08 GMT
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In article <361198E0.829BAABD@aik.tec.sc.us>,
Ray Timmons <lists@aik.tec.sc.us> wrote:
: Jeffrey Altman wrote:
: >
: > One of the bugs (features) in Windows 95/98 is that Microsoft chose not
: > to implement support for multiple keyboard layouts in Console applications.
: > Therefore, we had to do it ourselves within Kermit 95.
: >
: > If you have installed multiple keyboard layouts in Windows 95/98, then
: > K95 when it is started will begin with the default layout. After that
: > point the Alt-Left Shift and Ctrl-Left Shift combinations are used to
: > cycle through all of the available layouts.
: >
: oUCH! (Oops there goes that CAP-LOCK again.) The Alt-Left Shift
: explains
: some of the problems I've seen. My usual way to scroll back a screen
: is
: to hold down Alt-Left Shift and then press PgUp how many times I need.
Just make sure that when you press Alt-Left_Shift that you press
PgUp, PgDn, or End at least once. Then it won't happen.
: I also have another problem. When the focus goes back to a K95
: window,
: it transmits the Gold or PF1 Key (Numlock on PC). Unfortunately many
: years
: ago we mapped that on the VAX to launch a program for all our users,
: so I
: have to wait for it to launch and then exit.
This is the same bug as CapsLock in Win95/98. When you change focus it
attempts to synchronize the state of the keys and generates an input
key event which is transmitted to K95. K95 has no way of knowing whether
the event is user generated or system generated. Therefore, it must
process it. If you have PF1 assigned to NumLock, then PF1 will be
sent to the host.
You can do what you are doing now, unmap the NumLock key, switch to
Windows NT, or (I hate to say it) don't use Kermit.
It will be interesting to see what Microsoft does over the next six
months. Last month Microsoft's NT group started shipping a Beta
product called NT Services for Unix Add-On. This provides a Telnet
daemon for NT and a console based telnet client that uses NT Lan
Manager authentication and a new NT specific virtual terminal type
to communicate with their Telnetd. However, because it is a console
client they are going to start to see all of the problems that K95
has with Win95/98. Maybe they will finally start fix things.
(or maybe not.)
Jeffrey Altman * Sr.Software Designer * Kermit-95 for Win32 and OS/2
The Kermit Project * Columbia University
612 West 115th St #716 * New York, NY * 10025
http://www.kermit-project.org/k95.html * kermit-support@kermit-project.org