Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucsd!nprdc!malloy
From: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: HP48sx Power thingos, ROM revisions and keyboard probs.
Keywords: ROM, power, HP48sx, keyboards
Message-ID: <7813@skinner.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 7 Jun 90 14:01:15 GMT
References: <1990Jun4.012755.28078@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Reply-To: malloy@nprdc.arpa (Sean Malloy)
Organization: Navy Personnel R&D Center, San Diego
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In article <1990Jun4.012755.28078@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au> edp148l@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (Andrew Moore) writes:
|Okay now another problem...

|the row of keys on the keyboard 7 8 9
|they should produce responses as per the following table...
|(for alpha, left and alpha right shift)

|key           left-shift          right-shift
| 7                `                    '
| 8                ^                    ~
| 9               ..                   etc.

|(according to the back page of the quick reference manual, and also a
|page in the user manual I dont have in front of me.)

|instead they all produce a non-destructive backspace (and no character !) 

These keys don't produce characters; they are diacritical marks. They
act by changing the previous character that was entered.

Try entering each of the characters you list above after entering an
'O'; you'll get an 'O' with each of the diacritical marks above it
when you do.


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