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Anyone with ADB keyboard based NeXT(s) out there?
Dear Folks,
1.3 is on temporary hold again. It turns out that somewhere along
the way, we broke support for ADB keyboards again. It's not clear to
me whether we did something, or whether NS 3.1 behaves slightly
differently than NS 3.0 did. If you have an ADB keyboard based NeXT
and can pick up Executor "1.3" as it currently exists on
ftp.cs.unm.edu, can you do so and test it with Microsoft word and let
me know what you find?
Even if you can't do the above, if you have an ADB keyboard based
NeXT, can you drop me a line? I'm tempted to send what we have to
the duplicators and just add to the README saying that ADB keyboards
don't currently work, but we'll release a 1.3.1 soon that does
support them, but I won't do that if there are a bunch of ADB
keyboard users out there.
In case you missed the great ADB keyboard flamewar, let me just
mention that although there is a portable way to get the
key-character under NEXTSTEP, there is *not* a portable way to get
the key-CODE under NEXTSTEP, which is why emulation software is very
sensitive to whatever NeXT does. In this case I suspect that the
problem is indeed ours, but without an ADB-based NeXT, it's very hard
for us to test this.
Thanks for your patience
--Cliff