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Date:      Mon, 13 Oct 1997 15:13:49 +0930
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: possible sc0 problem 
Message-ID:  <199710130543.PAA00380@word.smith.net.au>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 12 Oct 1997 20:30:13 %2B0200." <199710121830.UAA16761@rvc1.informatik.ba-stuttgart.de> 

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> > Before we blame Soren, what are we all talking about here?  The Alt
> > key is on the right now, as per my change to kbdtables.h, and the left
> 
> So this might provoke some fun in FreeBSD-questions if a newbie is
> guided to through installing 2.2.5 and is asked to press the right
> ALT key and F2.

This sucks even more when you find that a lot of systems (laptops, 
embedded systems) don't _have_ two ALT keys.

> The fun will not last long, so I suggest to backout this change.

The correct fix is to have ALT-Fn do the "right thing", while still 
generating Meta-

This is left as an exercise to the original committer. 8)

mike





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