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From: KFL@MC.LCS.MIT.EDU ("Keith F. Lynch")
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Subject: Keyboards
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Date: Sat, 22-Feb-86 15:24:38 EST
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    From: GKN%OAK.SAINET.MFENET@LLL-MFE.ARPA

    ...  Under the monitor I'm field testing, there is a
    command to remap any key into the <ESC> key.  I usually map the ` character
    to <ESC>...

 Then how do you send a ` character?

    ...  Somehow I doubt that DEC gives you the option of changing
    what the keyboard sends.  ^space isn't a null??

 Control-space should not be a null.  Control-@ should be a null.
Pressing a character key while holding down control should subtract 64
from that character code, or should leave it alone.  On the H19
control-space is a space, since 32-64 is not in the ASCII set.
  The IBM-PC keyboard (despite its strange key placements) does this
right, as it allows user software complete control.
								...Keith