From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Feb 4 11:11:25 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id LAA24170 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 11:11:25 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.eskimo.com (root@mail.eskimo.com [204.122.16.4]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA24161 for ; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 11:11:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from eskimo.com (dpk@eskimo.com [204.122.16.13]) by mail.eskimo.com (8.7.3/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA04359; Sun, 4 Feb 1996 11:10:56 -0800 (PST) Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 11:10:42 -0800 (PST) From: David Kirchner To: Michael Smith cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very odd keyboard problems. In-Reply-To: <199602030846.TAA01037@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Sat, 3 Feb 1996, Michael Smith wrote: > David Kirchner stands accused of saying: > > I type sort of fast, and when I try to type a capital 'O' > > followed by either P, Q, R, or S it doesn't print anything. In vi O-R > > will cause it to escape to command mode and go up a line and then print R. > > This sounds like you have a faulty keyboard. We have one at work that > exhibits those sort of symptoms, and I had a Mitsumi a while back that > generated F-key codes if you were too quick. > > Have you been able to reproduce this with another operating system, > or swap keyboard models? It doesn't happen with DOS or Windows (when I had Windows) but it does happen with my other keyboards. I haven't had a chance to test it on other shells or terminal emulations, which could possibly be the problem, but I doubt it. I'll just have to learn to type OS and such slower... sigh. =| -- David Kirchner -- dpk@eskimo.com