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From: pegram@kira.UUCP (Robert B. Pegram)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: Phantom typist
Message-ID: <1991Apr26.174005.16520@uvm.edu>
Date: 26 Apr 91 17:40:05 GMT
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From article <2737@prles2.prl.philips.nl>, by johnj@knor.prl.philips.nl (John Janssen):
> 
> As I stated in a previous message I finally run into the
> phantom typist, which I always thought did not exist.

	[most of post omitted]
> 
> After having it rather often in the last weeks, I think I found a
> cause of the problem. Although I'm not 100% certain, I try to
> believe that the symptom always started after typing a character very
> fast after pressing the backspace key!!!!

Yes! Yes!  Thats my experience exactly!

> This rang a bell in me!
> 
> In first word plus (and probably other texteditors aswell)
> all keys are queued, to allow fast typing.
> However, the delete and backspace key (as I noted) are not
> queued (not visibly anyway). This is done to provide you from
> deleting too much characters.
> 
> This inconsequent keyhandling mechanism may be the cause of the
> problem.
> 
> Although the above still does not explain, why I never saw the
> phantom typist for all those years I used TOS 1.0, it finally
> may give a(nother) start point for some investigation in this
> matter.

I believe I *did* see this when I was running Tos 1.0, but things are
rather fuzzy now - it's been a while since I got 1.4.  It would bomb
if I got really fast with the backspace key.

> --
> John Janssen        Check the email address in the header, as this
> J.v.Deventerstr.1   may have been filled in wrong by the system.
> Venlo Holland
> +31 77 513177       Reply to: johnj@idms.prl.philips.nl

Keep up the good work!  

Bob Pegram

pegram@griffin.uvm.edu
	or
...!uvm-gen!pegram

P.S. (and you thought I had a .sig!)  Hi Tracy, can you email or post
to the net at all?  I'd like to hear from you on the net
occaisionally.  Bye,
			Bob