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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Upper/lower case swapping ????
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.004459.26926@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Jul22.162624.16664@msuinfo.cl.msu.edu> <1992Jul22.213327.15028@scott.skidmore.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 00:44:59 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul22.213327.15028@scott.skidmore.edu> pvonk@scott.skidmore.edu (Pierre VonKaenel) writes:
- >Using my comm program (Xtalk for Win), if I type too fast, the case
- >switches. Without caps lock, I get upper case, with it I get lower
- >case. The trouble starts when I try non alpha symbols ( . or 4 for
- >example). What I get is > and $. I can't get . or 4 in either caps
- >lock mode. When I get out of the emacs (UNIX) editor and back in to
- >edit, sometimes things get straightened out (I call our UNIX box from
- >my OS/2 home machine). I haven't had this happen with other software,
- >and it never happened in Windows. I suspect Xtalk, but maybe it's the
- >combination with OS/2. Anyone experience the same thing?
-
- I haven't, but here's a guess on how to fix the problem.
-
- In the settings for your Win-OS/2 session try switching
- KBD_BUFFER_EXTEND off and KBD_RATE_LOCK on. Or vice versa --
- experiment with these settings (in all four permutations).
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