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From: pww@bnr.ca (Peter Whittaker)
Subject: Re: Disabling System Keys under PM
Message-ID: <1991Jan28.204625.23527@bwdls61.bnr.ca>
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Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ltd., Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
References: <5618@newton.praxis.co.uk> <1991Jan12.024029.26232@vpnet.chi.il.us>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 91 20:46:25 GMT

In article <1991Jan12.024029.26232@vpnet.chi.il.us> hb@vpnet.chi.il.us (hank barta) writes:
>In article <5618@newton.praxis.co.uk> jon@praxis.co.uk (Jon Pearson) writes:
>>
>>We are interested in disabling the System Keys Alt-Tab, Alt-Esc,
>>Ctrl-Esc and Ctrl-Alt-Del while running a PM application.  Does
>>anybody have any experience of this?
>
>   I have need to do this also. IBM never answered and Microsoft said
>   it can't be done.

Okay, I know it's not worth much, but *yes*, it can be done.  
I used to work for IBM and had (internally developed and internally used)
software for my PS/2 Mod 80 that would trap (though I'm not sure this is 
what you want to do) all keystrokes - it was a PM screen locker.

The only technical detail I can give you (knowledge restriction, not
security restriction) is that the application existed 'below' all process
threads - it was a window manager, so it had to have access to everything.

Please, no flames to me (or email at all, thank you) about IBM's inane
and idiotic idea to not market all the nifty toys it develops internally.
I know the reasons, and they aren't good ones.

And for Pete's sake (so to speak), don't assume that BNR would ever pay me
to speak for them........




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