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On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:17:30PM +0200, Thorsten Kampe wrote:
>The question is why you do have different actions for those in Cmd 
>(which uses the same Windows terminal). Maybe because Cmd does not use 
>the same "keycode" mechanism as the Unix terminal/shells. But that's all 
>more or less guessing.

Yep.  I suspect that X decodes keypress events individually rather than
just using a normal Windows API interface like ReadFile.

cgf

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