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From: "David Carter" <david AT carter DOT net>
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Subject: RE: Shell CAPS-lock settings
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2001 21:10:01 -0400
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I can confirm that I'm experiencing this on ME, but not on 2K.



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From: cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com
[mailto:cygwin-owner AT sources DOT redhat DOT com] On Behalf Of Christopher Faylor
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 5:59 PM
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Re: Shell CAPS-lock settings

On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 11:52:52PM +0200, Corinna Vinschen wrote:
>On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 05:16:29PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Aug 15, 2001 at 10:37:57AM -0600, Daniel V. Flores wrote:
>> >PROBLEM:
>> >Whenever I have my CAPS locked, the top-row keys return the
character
>> >as if I also had the Shift key pressed.  For example, I get *
instead
>> >of 8, + instead of =, and the ESC key doesn't work.  Imagine writing
>> >FORTRAN code using vim with this problem :)
>> >
>> >How can I make my shell to change this behavior to the standard one?
>> 
>> This seems to be a valid bug.
>> 
>> Anyone want to investigate this?  Several people have modified the
>> code in fhandler_console.cc.  It's not that hard.
>
>Is that 9x/ME? I can't reproduce it on W2K, neither with CYGWIN=tty
>nor with notty regardless whether I use bash or tcsh.

I reproduced it on 98 and 95.

cgf

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