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From: brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Speed the keys
Message-ID: <2247@astroatc.UUCP>
Date: 10 Jul 89 17:39:01 GMT
References: <1184@marlin.NOSC.MIL> <2225@astroatc.UUCP> <54346@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu>
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In article <54346@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> Malcolm Thomas <thomas-m@cis.ohio-state.edu> writes:
<In article <2225@astroatc.UUCP> brown@astroatc.UUCP (Vidiot) writes:
<>In article <1184@marlin.NOSC.MIL> jbjones@marlin.nosc.mil.UUCP (John B. Jones) writes:
<><
<><I have to use a TSR, QUICKEYS, to speed up my keyboard.  Does anyone
<><know of a way to tweak my system to speed the keyboard up without a TSR?
<><Is it something in commmand.com?  Help is appreciated.
<>
<>Huh?  You can type on your pc's keyboard faster than the pc can place it
<>into the buffer?
<
<Ever tried holding down the key for repeat?
<
<>I'm lost.  My keyboard has always been able to keep up with me. :-)
<
<Ever tried scrolling around in Lotus with the keyboard, and then with a
<mouse? Just going from the top left area to the bottom right area on the 
<same screen (44 x 132) takes forever with the keyboard.  Holding down a 
<key for repeat is awfully time consuming  (You notice this when you have 
<a mouse) but then not all of us have mice, and not all software use mice.
<
<I say a keyboard speedup is in order.  (Even if you are NOT a hunt-and-peck
<typist)

Correct.  I missed the repeat key issue because that wasn't the way the
original posting was worded.  He just wanted to speed up the keyboard.
Because it wasn't mentioned, I forgot about the repeat key function.  This
whole thing has been resolved (actually discussed) via e-mail.
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