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From: hudson@dalcsug.UUCP (Bruce A. Hudson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms,comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: PCFS on HP Vectra - Goodbye Keyboard mapping
Keywords: DECnet-DOS, PSCA
Message-ID: <336@dalcsug.UUCP>
Date: 15 Mar 89 17:06:29 GMT
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Reply-To: hudson@dalcsug.UUCP (Bruce A. Hudson)
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Organization: Math, Stats & CS, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
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     I am not sure if it is appropriate but this sounds a lot like a
problem that I get running the SETHOST utility from DECnet-DOS. What
seems to happen is that the keyboard gets caught in a shift-lock state
where all the arrow keys enter as numerics. It only seems to happen
during periods of keyboard inactivity -- never while I am actually
typing.

    If this is the same problem, the "fix" is trivial. Depressing and
releasing the shift key restores the PC to its normal function. If 
anyone out there has a fix that prevents it from happening, I would
be interested in hearing it.