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From: njd@ihlpm.ATT.COM (DiMasi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Alternate keypads
Message-ID: <1841@ihlpm.ATT.COM>
Date: 18 Apr 88 22:55:07 GMT
References: <bsu-cs!cfchiesa@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> <19880417184118.1.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories - Naperville, Illinois
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Summary: Use of <CTRL><SHIFT> key combinations

In article <19880417184118.1.JRD@MOA.SCRC.Symbolics.COM>, jrd@STONY-BROOK.SCRC.SYMBOLICS.COM (John R. Dunning) writes:
> 
> ....
> True, but it's worse than just holes.  As I recall, you lose Tab thru
> 'R', and 'H' thru '|', ie there are two substantial horizontal chunks
> ....
Hmmm... "Tab thru 'R'" implies that W and R don't work with <CTRL><SHIFT>.
Yet, the ACTION! editor uses these along with other <CTRL><SHIFT> combinations.
(It has used such combinations since ACTION! first appeared, as far as I know.)
How does it work, if the key combo's don't generate any codes?

Nick DiMasi
Uni'q Digital Technologies (Fox Valley Software subsidiary;
   ^          working as a contractor at AT&T Bell Labs in Naperville, IL)
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