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From: barmar@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU (Barry Margolin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.mac
Subject: Re: Help with Red Ryder
Message-ID: <1797@mit-eddie.MIT.EDU>
Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 23:12:10 EDT
Article-I.D.: mit-eddi.1797
Posted: Tue Apr 29 23:12:10 1986
Date-Received: Sat, 3-May-86 01:28:02 EDT
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Reply-To: barmar@mit-eddie.UUCP (Barry Margolin)
Organization: MIT, EE/CS Computer Facilities, Cambridge, MA
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Keywords: control key(s)

In article <384@druhi.UUCP> cosmos@druhi.UUCP (GuestRA) writes:
>I just downloaded Red Ryder 8.0 to try it out.  One problem I am having is
>that using the Option keys as the control key doesn't seem to work right for
>some control keys.  For example, ^E must be typed twice to be sent to the
>host.

Macintosh Kermit has the same problem.  The problem is that they use a
keyboard-reading routine that interprets diacritical prefixes.  It
thinks that Option-e is the acute accent, so it waits for the next
character so that it can translate it to the accented version.
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    Barry Margolin
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