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  2. From: djbpitt+@pitt.edu (David J Birnbaum)
  3. Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.misc
  4. Subject: "Stuck" keys in OS/2
  5. Message-ID: <5316@blue.cis.pitt.edu.UUCP>
  6. Date: 31 Aug 92 11:37:04 GMT
  7. References: <BALDWIN.92Aug28121209@csservera.scs.usna.navy.mil> <1992Aug28.182301.24635@scott.skidmore.edu> <1992Aug31.054353.23356@njitgw.njit.edu>
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  9. Organization: University of Pittsburgh
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  12. In article <1992Aug31.054353.23356@njitgw.njit.edu> 
  13. dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
  14.  
  15. >>Does anyone else have a "stuck" key problem in OS/2?  I've seen this happen
  16. >>in PM, OS/2 full screen, DOS full screen and various apps.  The system
  17. >>suddenly behaves as if one or more of Alt, Shift and/or Ctrl are being held
  18. >>down. The keyboard is not sticking physically, and I am certainly not holding
  19. >>these keys down at the time.
  20. >
  21. >Not that this cures anything, but I've always been able to undo a
  22. >stuck-shift condition by pressing CTRL-SHIFT a few times.
  23.  
  24. Not that this helps, but the problem isn't unique to OS/2; I encounter
  25. it frequently in DOS on a machine that doesn't have OS/2. I spent a few
  26. days juggling TSRs and finally decided it was easier using the
  27. CTRL-SHIFT treatment than trying to trace the culprit. Annoying,
  28. though.
  29.  
  30. --David
  31.  
  32. -- 
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