Date: Sun, 4 Feb 1996 11:10:42 -0800 (PST) From: David Kirchner <dpk@eskimo.com> To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very odd keyboard problems. Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.960204110810.21295C-100000@eskimo.com> In-Reply-To: <199602030846.TAA01037@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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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
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