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- From: josh@viewlogic.com (Josh Marantz)
- Subject: Re: PC-Xview Remote for Windows and DOS
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.192552.26093@viewlogic.com>
- Sender: news@viewlogic.com
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- Organization: Viewlogic Systems, Inc.
- Date: Fri, 8 Jan 1993 19:25:52 GMT
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- Kevin Thompson writes:
- > Thank you *very* much for your summary, it was very useful -- I'm toying with
- > buying this product (well, and a PC :) Real Soon. I'm encouraged by your
- > note about speed -- is that with V.42bis compression, or just straight 9600?
- > I had one question from your post:
-
- I turned the modem compression off, as per NCD's recommendation.
-
- > > although I've had a great deal of frustration with the keyboard, especially
- > > with respect to the modifier keys, auto-repeat, etc. I can go into more
- > > detail if you like.
- >
- > Doesn't sound like a minor point at all to me -- one of my main concerns (I
- > use a Sun at work) in having a PC or Mac is the different keyboard. Does
- > your post mean that you have problems getting the equivalent of a "meta" key
- > to work? One of the main things (I use GNU Emacs) that's important to me is
- > being able to use Meta as a toggle, unlike Escape as a prefix key (if that
- > makes sense). Are you unable to do that?
-
- Yes, I can do that. Alt means Meta. The problem is that the Sun
- keyboard has Control to the left of the 'a' key, and Alt below the
- shift key, where newer PC keyboards have caps-lock to the left of the
- 'a' key, and Control and Alt below the shift key. This confusion
- would be certain to give me Carpal Tunnel Syndrome, but I can fix them
- in DOS via a TSR someone here wrote, and I can fix it under Windows
- via a KEYBOARD.DRV file I got off the net, and I can fix it in DOS
- PC-Xview via an xmodmap file. The problem is that whatever method I
- choose, PC-XView gets a little confused, and does things like
- auto-repeat the alt and control keys (DOS), or gets confused about the
- caps-lock state, making it impossible to type small letters (Windows)
- until you unconfuse it via the magic shift-caps-lock sequence that I
- found accidentally.
-
- But for the DOS-based product now, things work OK, except for the
- caps-lock key, which I never use anyway, and the auto-repeating alt
- and ctrl keys, which don't affect Emacs.
-
- By the way, the PC-Xview that I'm currently using is an "Evaluation
- Copy", and I don't know if they've released it yet. Buy no version
- prior to 4.1. Stock XRemote/PC-Xview for Windows V3.0 was essentially
- unusable.
-
- If you're buying your PC for the purpose of running PC XView, make
- sure you get a fast hi-res graphics card! Mine is a Tseng-4000 based,
- and it could be a bit better, especially on Emacs scrolls.
- --
- Joshua Marantz You make my life and times
- Viewlogic Systems, a book of bluesy Saturdays
- josh@viewlogic.com And I have to choose...
-