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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware
- Path: sparky!uunet!dcatlas!joet
- From: joet@dcatlas.dot.gov (Joe Trott)
- Subject: Re: Packard Bell and NUMLOCK from Hell
- Message-ID: <1992Sep11.193411.4864@dcatlas.dot.gov>
- Organization: U.S Dept. of Transportation
- References: <1992Sep7.193526.1@ulkyvx.louisville.edu>
- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 19:34:11 GMT
- Lines: 14
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- cksvih01@ulkyvx.louisville.edu writes:
-
- >My brother has a Packard-Bell 386SX with an enhanced keyboard, and he's found
- >that he runs into problems if he has the NumLock key on when using
- >certain programs (spreadsheets, etc.) - his input gets scrambled, and
- >all hell breaks loose. If he shuts off the NumLock key, it works fine.
- >He'd like to use the numeric keypad, and has tried a couple of different
- >keyboards with no success. Any pointers?
-
- Use a utility such as PC Mag's NUMOFF.COM, which turns NumLock off, in a batch
- file that is used to start the desired application.
-
- -JTT
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