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From: ram@tellabs.com (Bob Martin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.handhelds
Subject: Re: How do you lock lower case permanently, and more memory confusion
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Date: 1 Nov 90 00:52:53 GMT
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In article <15874@mentor.cc.purdue.edu> ags@seaman.cc.purdue.edu (Dave Seaman) writes:
>In article <4385@tellab5.tellabs.com> ram@tellabs.com (Bob Martin) writes:
>>In article <27290254-3db.1comp.sys.handhelds-1@hpcvbbs.UUCP> akcs.michaelv@hpcvbbs.UUCP (Michael VanLoon) writes:
>>>Bob,
>>>I believe what you want to do is alpha alpha <-| alpha.  The first two to
>>>lock in alpha mode, and the shift alpha to lock in lower case.
>>
>>
>>No.  It still only locks lower case for the current alpha "session", not
>>permanently.
>
>It locks lower case for the current command line, not for the current alpha
>session.  As proof, note that you can use alpha <-| alpha to lock lower case
>WITHOUT locking alpha.  You can then press some non-alpha keys, and later in
>the same command line press alpha <something>, and <something> will come out
>lower case.

Yes, but now if I hit enter, do some other things, and then do alpha
<something>,  <something> will be UPPER case.  You can only lock lower case
for the NEXT time you select alpha.  After that is completed, the next alpha
after that will be upper case.  

Some ways around this are a USR key which assigns alpha <- alpha to some key,
or using vectored enter to accomplish it,  so it is possible to permanently
lock lower case, but only in a slightly (more or less) roundabout way.

Anyway, the whole reason why I was going to be using lower case all the time
has disappeared, so it really isn't too important to me any more.

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