Are these ISC X11 problems fixed?

James Howard jrh at mustang.dell.com
Thu Sep 6 07:06:21 AEST 1990


In article <3388 at syma.sussex.ac.uk>, jonm at syma.sussex.ac.uk (Jonathan
Meyer) writes:
 > ckp at grebyn.com (Checkpoint Technologies) writes:
 > > keyboard is not uniquely identifiable.  For instance, I'd like to bind
 > > the numeric keypad ENTER key differently than the main keyboard ENTER
 > > key.  This does not appear to be possible.
 > 
 > In fact, the two keys are hardwired to send the same scancode, so as
 > far as the PC is concerned they are identical. Sad, but true (I've
 > often wanted to distinguish them).

I don't believe that this last statement is true.  The V.4 sysadm can
and does distinguish between the two, as the two keys perform completely
different functions under the interface. 


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