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From: kipp@warp.wpd.sgi.com (Kipp Hickman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Re: Alt key differences
Summary: alt key answer
Keywords: alt key
Message-ID: <34839@sgi.SGI.COM>
Date: 7 Jun 89 23:55:25 GMT
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Organization: Silicon Graphics, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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The left alt key, in support of international usage, is actually
(by default) treated as a ``compose'' key.  Currently there is
no standard software support fo disabling this behaviour.  However,
a trick that would work is to hack the PostScript keyboard translation
code (as others on the network have gleefully done) to turn the left
alt key code into the right alt key code so that the low level
translation code never sees the left alt key...Any volunteers?

				kipp hickman
				silicon graphics inc.