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From: jimm@amiga.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Caps Lock Position
Message-ID: <4500@amiga.UUCP>
Date: 1 Sep 89 18:27:47 GMT
References: <3101@spudge.UUCP> <5660056@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM> <220@estinc.UUCP>
Reply-To: jimm@cloyd.UUCP (Jim Mackraz)
Organization: Commodore-Amiga Inc, Los Gatos CA
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In article <220@estinc.UUCP> fnf@estinc.UUCP (Fred Fish) writes:
)I agree that the positions of the caps-lock and control keys on most 
)"modern" keyboards are highly unsatisfactory (or less politely, they suck!).
)The control key belongs immediately to the left of the 'A' key on any
)self-respecting keyboard.  The caps-lock key can go just about anywhere
)that it won't be hit by mistake.
)
)>Since then I have bought an Amiga 2000.  I have not yet performed this
)>surgery on its keyboard, but I plan to.
)
)It probably won't work since the keys are different sizes, unlike the A1000
)where they were the same size.
)
)-Fred

Unless you do your surgery in software.

On some Fish Disk and on the disks handed to developers at DevCon, there
is a Commodity named NoCapsLock.  Guess what it does?  The version handed
out at DevCon also converts middle mouse to shift-left.

Source is provided: it would be easy to hack it to track capslock
down/up and have it simulate "control."

There is a little TSR that fixes PC AT keyboards (where control is out
of reach).  I can't imaging living without it, when dealing with one of
those things.

	jimm

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