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From: jms@hcx.uucp (Michael Stanley)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: key interception and translation
Summary: INT 9 TSR's
Keywords: keyboard translation
Message-ID: <2563@cveg.uucp>
Date: 10 Jun 89 18:37:39 GMT
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In article <182@auto-trol.UUCP>, robwah@auto-trol.UUCP (Robert Wahl) writes:
> I'm afraid you may be out of luck.  Shift/control interpretation takes place

Well actually you aren't out of luck, but things are still difficult.  There
are various TSR's (terminate-and-stay-resident) programs available which
will intercept interrupt 9 and do key swapping for you.  For the most part
they work well, but there are a few problems.  You see, there are a few
very good commercial programs out there which appear to intercept INT 9
themselves.  In other words, you can fool some programs some of the time,
but you can't fool all of the programs all of the time.  If that's not bad
enough, this can create an even more insideous problem.  For instance, I
used to swap my capslock and control keys.  But a word processor I have
checked for the control key itself requiring me to hit the control key
anyway.  But the key swapper program made sure that every time I hit the
control key, it also changed my capslock state.  The end result was that
while I used my word processor, my capslock key did nothing and my control
key did two things at once.  I finally got around this problem by using
a TSR I found which changed capslock to control, and shift-capslock to
capslock.  My word processor still requires me to use the old ctrl keys,
but at least I don't end up with a dual function key.  Anyway, good luck,
and try to enjoy that brain damaged IBM keyboard.

	Michael Stanley
	jms@hcx.uucp