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- From: sip1@ellis.uchicago.edu (Timothy F. Sipples)
- Subject: Re: Help needed for Omnikey in OS/2
- Message-ID: <1992Sep12.015050.17728@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- Organization: Dept. of Econ., Univ. of Chicago
- References: <1992Sep9.162756.17155@starbase.trincoll.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Sep 1992 01:50:50 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep9.162756.17155@starbase.trincoll.edu> nmiller@starbase.trincoll.edu (norman miller) writes:
- >I have a Northgate Omnikey/Ultra keyboard with a
- >programmable extra row of function keys. Very
- >handy. Trouble is that the Dos command in my
- >autoexec.bat (obviously) doesn't work under OS/2
- >nor does it work even when I try to invoke it
- >in a Dos window.
- >Does anyone know of a possible fix?
-
- Doubtful. OS/2 virtualizes the keyboard so that such utilities are
- not likely to work.
-
- Best bet is to harp on Northgate to update the utility for use under
- OS/2 2.0.
-
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