Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!rex!uflorida!mephisto!purdue!mentor.cc.purdue.edu!dls From: dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (David L Stevens) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: Swapping Caps Lock and Ctrl Message-ID: <14258@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> Date: 21 Sep 90 22:57:12 GMT References: <1990Sep20.000534.12354@chinet.chi.il.us> <1990Sep21.195630.17715@sj.ate.slb.com> Distribution: comp Organization: PUCC UNIX Group Lines: 28 In article <1990Sep21.195630.17715@sj.ate.slb.com>, poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russell Poffenberger) writes: > [my stuff deleted] > This is entirely incorrect. Well, I wouldn't go that far. It is good to know that there is a software solution, and I did say "pretty sure" which isn't "positive." But the rest of your opinions are nonsense in that "entirely" in your mind applies to everything beyond my belief that the keys couldn't be remapped. > In short, there ARE software solutions available to swap keys. Wonderful. As I pointed out, there's a simple hardware solution too. It has the advantage that it always does what I want, no matter who's software I'm running. And it took me half an hour to do it. Big deal. All I was pointing out is that it's easy to modify the hardware, if that's the way you want to go. > Sounds like someone hacked up their keyboard for nothing. Well, you're entitled to your opinion, but I don't call it "hacked" or "nothing." I have exactly what I want, permanently, with no worries about it being remapped (ie, unmapped) the wrong way by bad software. I'd probably spend more time than that just acquiring key remap software and then, of course, it could be undone by any other programs that might diddle with it. Even knowing about the software solution, I still prefer the way I did it-- hardware is permanent, and that's how I want it. :-) -- +-DLS (dls@mentor.cc.purdue.edu)