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From: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: VersaTerm and UK keyboard, problem!
Message-ID: <470@mcvax.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-Feb-85 21:51:58 EST
Article-I.D.: mcvax.470
Posted: Wed Feb 20 21:51:58 1985
Date-Received: Sun, 24-Feb-85 04:48:49 EST
References: <267@sara70.UUCP> <710@aluxe.UUCP>
Reply-To: jaap@mcvax.UUCP (Jaap Akkerhuis)
Organization: CWI, Amsterdam
Lines: 12
Summary: 

In article <710@aluxe.UUCP> lra@aluxe.UUCP (Lonnie R. Abelbeck, AT&T Bell Labs) writes:
	>... US keyboard, the result is that the spacebar generates a BREAK.
	>The moral is not to reference keys directly, but rather look for the
	>characters that they generate, if you want foreign compatability.

H'm, sorry to disturb this interesting discussion, but as far as I
know BREAK is not a character but a state of the transmit line of an
RS-232 interface (a MARK or SPACE, not sure about which state), longer
then the character time, so it will cause an overrun error in the
UART.

	Jaap.