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- From: "Rainer Riedl" <Rainer.Riedl@edi.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jul 1994 14:15:39 MET-1
- Subject: Re: Gem Listing
- Priority: normal
- Message-Id: <28B2A2A22D9@edi.ngate.uni-regensburg.de>
- Precedence: bulk
-
- > > Now it's MagiC
- >
- > Still unavailable in USA, still doesn't work on anything but german TOS, and
- > doesn't even work on Falcon030 ?!?! I don't see much of a future in this
-
- They are working on a Falcon-version v3.0. (I hope it's coming soon:-)
-
- > > For shortcuts with single purpose keys (A-Z,DEL,HELP,DEL,...) we always
- > > use uppercase; 'Shift-(Cntrl)- A' is 'UParrow-(^)-A' and 'Cntrl-A' is
- > > '^A' as on the keys the letters are always uppercase.
- > > So if you want to press 'A' you are pressing the key 'A' (and not 'a')
- > > and for 'Shift-A' the shift-key + the key 'A' as 'UParrow-A' shows.
- > >
- > > For all other shortcuts with non-single purpose keys (%&>...) we use no
- > > UP-arrow. The user just has to press the combination (with or without
- > > shift) > that the national keyboard need.
- >
- > Yes that is what I had assumed would be used.
- >
- > > Characters that need more than the shift key have to be excluded or the
- > > Cntrl-Alt-Shift combination that is needed shouldn't be allowed.
- >
- > Which characters are they?
-
- I wish I could remember (because I have no Atari-keyboard anymore). I think
- it was {} for example on a German keyboard. To get them you have to press
- 'Cntrl Alt Umlaut-O/A' (?!). Here on my PC-like keyboard I have another ALT-
- key named 'Alt Gr' to get the third level of multipurpose keys.
-
-
- Vincent Lefevre:
-
- > Do MagiC and Geneva run on Falcon ?
-
- see above
-