NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #19/NN_1992_19.iso/spool/comp/os/msdos/misc/4975

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From: [e-mail] (Peter L. Hurd)
Subject: Re: sticky shift key, err
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Organization: Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., Canada
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Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 23:03:07 GMT
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[e-mail] writes:

>  If you're using QEMM, try putting IA on the QEMM load line.  If
>  you use DOS 5's HIMEM.SYS, try the /a20control:off switch.

 I tried this, after getting the shiftfix (I forgot the propper name
of the file) off oak.oakland.edu.  IA didn't quite fix the problem,
(which usually occurred in WP 5.1, but remained once I exited WP),
If you use WP (which has a history of sticking shift keys), you can
load it with /nc or /nk switches, one of which interferes with the ALT
activation of the pull down menus, the other has worked fine for me.

Question though: Can the use of the alt key in WP5.1 be turned into
an f11 or f12 key, I run under Desqview, and hitting ALT in WP5.1
to activate the pull down menus simulataneously pops me out of the WP
window.  Having the pull downs around is nice, seeing as it's the only
way to save a document if the shift key sticks.
--
-- Pete Hurd, [e-mail]          |"So I've got this 22Meg output file..." |
Behavioural Ecology Research Group |"Yeah, well delete it."                 |
Dept.Biol.Sci., Simon Fraser Univ. |"But how will I know what it says"      |
Burnaby B.C. V5A 1S6 Canada        |"Well, how will you know what it means?"|