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From: roseal@sequent.UUCP (Rose Alford)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.x
Subject: keycodes
Keywords: uniqueness of
Message-ID: <36306@sequent.UUCP>
Date: 7 Jun 90 00:16:51 GMT
Reply-To: roseal@sequent.UUCP (Rose Alford)
Distribution: usa
Organization: Sequent Computer Systems, Inc
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Is there a convention that each key on a keyboard has a unique keycode?  Can
one assume this is true?  Is there any advantage for two different keys (such
as the right and left shift keys and the right and left Alt keys) to have the
same keycode?  What if you wanted to use the right Alt key for a different
purpose than the left one?  It seems to be a limitation.  I am using a
keyboard that has this problem now, after the server was upgraded.  What is
the current thinking (if any) on this?  

--roseal