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From: johnj@knor.prl.philips.nl (John Janssen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Phantom Typist Sighting!  (Only Elvis has more...)
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Date: 14 May 91 10:03:28 GMT
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We had a small discussion of the phantom typist in c.s.a.st.tech
recently.

A more or less conclusion was that it occured after typing normal
text immediately after one or more backspace.

It seemed to be caused by inconsequent keyhandling procedures
within the application programs. However more investigation
is needed to say this for sure.

The background idea was that standard text characters were queued
when typed in while other keys like delete and backspace were not
queued within the program to help you not to delete too much.



..opions of course..
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