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From: davison@menudo.uh.edu (Dan Davison)
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Subject: Re: Those Damn Keyboards
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Date: 8 Feb 91 05:06:47 GMT
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   One of the key requirements was that the return key had to be "L"
   shaped.  To accomplish this, one of the keys had to be removed and the
   key codes remapped.  In lengthy discussions with our engineers and our
   European and Asian teams, the new key layout was approved.

   During this transition period, you may recommend to the UNIX folk that
   they remap their keyboard.  In the developer directory, there is an
   application called Keyboard which allows anyone to remap the keyboard.

Anyone tried this? It doesn't work. (2.0)

This "explanation" has the same qualities of truth and honesty as
NeXT's "explanation" of taking your money on October 5 and never
officially talking to you again.

And, if you use the puked-up excuse for a network database called
NetInfo you will spend a lot of time playing with that far-off "|"
key to fix things NetInfoMangler throughly damages.

I am *not* pleased with the new machines in any way, shape, or form
and (at least now) wish I had never seen one.  And I bought one for
home!  (At least NetNonInfo can't screw up...too much...on a single
non-networked machine.  Maybe.)

dan


--
dr. dan davison/dept. of biochemical and biophysical sciences/univ. of
Houston/4800 Calhoun/Houston,TX 77054-5500/davison@uh.edu/DAVISON@UHOU
Disclaimer: As always, I speak only for myself, and, usually, only to
myself.