Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!caen!hellgate.utah.edu!dog.ee.lbl.gov!ucsd!sdcc6!sdcc6.ucsd.edu!cg108dbd From: cg108dbd@icogsci1.ucsd.edu (Steve -Social Hacker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: "MACRO" key on ubiquitous BTC-53 keyboards. Message-ID: Date: 31 May 91 01:50:43 GMT Sender: news@sdcc6.ucsd.edu Organization: University of California, San Diego -- Cognitive A. I. Lines: 23 Originator: cg108dbd@icogsci1 I haven't seen this discussed before and just *have* to ask.. Has anyone found a use or way of using that key labeled MACRO? It's that dormant key in the lower-left corner of almost all BTC AT keyboards.. (which seem pretty common). The (skimpy) docs that came with the keyboard claim that a program by BTC can use this key for macros of some sort, so it has to be reachable from DOS somehow... It doesn't seem to generate a scan-code or anything, so how would one detect it? In 386-Unix, the X11 xterm port uses it for scrolling back one page, so it has to be documented/known by someone! Just the thought of a wasted key on the board... :) -Steve -- }>> Steve Haehnichen <<{ shaehnichen@ucsd.edu Disclaimer: UCSD and I do not share any opinions.