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From: charles@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM (Charles Brown)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Caps Lock Position
Message-ID: <5660058@hpcvca.CV.HP.COM>
Date: 5 Sep 89 17:57:22 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard Co., Corvallis, Oregon
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>)> 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

I can still do it.  I just have to stick labels on the keys because I
cannot switch the keytops anymore.

> 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."
>	Jim Mackraz

I looked at this shortly after I bought my Amiga1000 years ago.  It
looked impossible.  All keys on the keyboard report up/down events to
the Amiga EXCEPT the CapsLock key which only reported down events.
It still would be easy to ignore the CapsLock, but that is not good
enuf.

It has been a long time since I looked at this, and the documentation
is several miles and several hours from here.  So correct me if I am
wrong, but I think it won't work in software and that a hardware fix
is the only way to do it.
--
	Charles Brown	charles@cv.hp.com or charles%hpcvca@hplabs.hp.com
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