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- From: eric@tantalus.nrl.navy.mil (Eric Youngdale)
- Subject: Re: KBDFLAGS=0x80 doesn't seem to work in 0.99pl2 (possible bug)
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- Organization: Naval Research Laboratory
- References: <1993Jan4.082618.24831@blaze.cs.jhu.edu>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 13:23:25 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan4.082618.24831@blaze.cs.jhu.edu> bogstad@gauss.cs.jhu.edu (Bill Bogstad) writes:
- > I've been looking at the keyboard drivers thinking about some
- >enhancements and trying to figure out what is going on. The root directory
- >Makefile for 0.99pl2 has comments in it about how you can set KBDFLAGS to
- >certain values in order to cause various things to happen. I was interested
- >in the 0x80 value to change the action of the Alt key. However from
- >examining the code, I couldn't figure how this was supposeed to work. I
- >decided to try building a kernel and see what would happen. Well, it didn't
- >work for me. I'ld like to find out if anyone else has tried this with a
- >recent version and can verify that it works for them.
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-
- I (used) to use it quite a bit, and I noticed that it broke about 0.99.
- My current guess is that the bit got renumbered, and the correct flag is 0x200
- instead of 0x80 (based upon a reading of keyboard.h. I have not tried this
- yet).
-
- -Eric
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- Eric Youngdale
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