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From: jrh@mustang.dell.com (James Howard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.sysv386
Subject: Re: Are these ISC X11 problems fixed?
Keywords: keyboard
Message-ID: <9329@uudell.dell.com>
Date: 5 Sep 90 21:06:21 GMT
References: <3388@syma.sussex.ac.uk> <21681@grebyn.com>
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In article <3388@syma.sussex.ac.uk>, jonm@syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jonathan
Meyer) writes:
 > ckp@grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
 > > keyboard is not uniquely identifiable.  For instance, I'd like to bind
 > > the numeric keypad ENTER key differently than the main keyboard ENTER
 > > key.  This does not appear to be possible.
 > 
 > In fact, the two keys are hardwired to send the same scancode, so as
 > far as the PC is concerned they are identical. Sad, but true (I've
 > often wanted to distinguish them).

I don't believe that this last statement is true.  The V.4 sysadm can
and does distinguish between the two, as the two keys perform completely
different functions under the interface. 


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