NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/comp/emacs/3778

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From: [e-mail] (Walter Hunt)
Subject: [DEMACS] More keyboard problems with DEMACS
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Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 22:05:37 GMT
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    I posted a while ago about wierd problems with my keyboard under DEMACS.
Well, I found a way to make those problems go away, but I'll be damned if I
understand why. If I take \WINDOWS\HIMEM.SYS out of my CONFIG.SYS, the keyboard
then acts normally!! I'm assuming that what is happening is that DEMACS wants a
flat address space, and some kind of DOS brain-damaged "page everything into and
out of a 16K spot in "high memory" stuff" is hosing DEMACS. If there is another
explanation that makes sense, feel free to let me know. (Actually, since the
application that I'm working on is showing some kind of conflict also, PLEASE
feel free to let me know what might be happening here.)

    Now, however, I have a new problem. My <ALT> key no longer functions as
a Meta key. Before removing HIMEM.SYS, I could get <ALT> to set a Meta bit, just
like it's supposed to. Now no way. I'm afraid I've been using Emacs on real
keyboards/machines way too long to go back to using <ESC><key>. Does anyone know
how I can get my Meta key back? (And while I'm at it, does anyone have a TSR or
something to swap the &^%$%#(* CAPS LOCK key and the <CTRL> key to the spaces
God meant for them to occupy?)

    Thanks.

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Walter Hunt                    [e-mail]
OptImage Interactive Services Company, L.P.    [e-mail]
11040 Santa Monica Blvd., Suite #300        netcom!optimla!walter
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