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From: jxh@cup.portal.com (Jim - Hickstein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Software to swap ctrl and capslock on *enhanced* keybd?
Message-ID: <10200@cup.portal.com>
Date: 19 Oct 88 21:45:37 GMT
Organization: The Portal System (TM)
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Is there software out there somewhere that will effectively swap the
functions of the caps-lock and ctrl keys on my "enhanced" 101-key
keyboard?  This should be possible if one can usurp the INT 08H vector
(hardware keyboard interrupt) and get there before the BIOS does; or
perhaps replace parts of the BIOS entirely.  I would do this myself (I'm
sure I could: I've done worse things down there...) but I'm convinced that
someone else has already solved this problem, since I was hardly the first
kid on my block to have to wrestle with this new layout.
Does Superkey do this at a less-ancient version than the one I am running?
(Mine doesn't even handle EGA screen blank or Compaq keyboards correctly,
let alone VGA or PS/2.)

I am proficient at editing with my 84-key layout, and the 101-key layout
has cost me dearly in accuracy; I can't go back (old machine reassigned,
and too slow; no money for a replacement keyboard) so I want to do this
in software.  The physical location of the function keys is harder to
change (especially in software :-) but they don't bother me as much as the
bizarre location for (left-)control.

Email answers, and I will summarize to the net.  Thanks very much.

P.S.  I already have a program that turns OFF numlock at boot time.

-Jim Hickstein
jxh@cup.portal.com
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