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- From: schuster@panix.com (Michael Schuster)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Subject: Re: Keyboard probs -- Old BIOS?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug19.131219.13779@panix.com>
- Date: 19 Aug 92 13:12:19 GMT
- Article-I.D.: panix.1992Aug19.131219.13779
- References: <1992Aug19.021304.28713@clark.edu>
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- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix & Internet, NYC
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- In article <1992Aug19.021304.28713@clark.edu> cis501@clark.edu (Charles Boling) writes:
- >
- >Many of Microsoft's editors allow you to highlight text by holding down the
- >SHIFT key and pressing the direction keys (arrows or otherwise).
- >
- >-At least it allows you to do it on all computers EXCEPT mine!
- >
- >I have an old '286 with a 1986 Award BIOS. Is it more probable that the BIOS
- >doesn't support whatever feature is required to pull this off, or is the
- >problem probably somewhere else?
- >
- >Note: This is the only problem I've had with the 101-key keyboard. I suspect
- >that it is a replacement keyboard, and the original may have been an
- >84-key model?
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- Most MS development packages come with a program called FIXSHIFT which
- is supposed to correct this.
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