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Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 21:13:18 -0400
From: Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Shell CAPS-lock settings
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On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 09:09:29PM -0400, David wrote:
>Thanks for the fast reply. After I sent the question, I did some more
>digging. It turns out that this problem is quite common, and appears not
>only on ME but on Win 95 and Win 98. It DOES NOT happen on NT or Win 2000
>(and so prolly not on XP either). The problem doesn't seem to be related
>to the computer company. It turns out the problem has been
>reported on and off since *1997* ("Caps lock problem and/or less can't
>search," 29 May 1997; the post says he knew of the problem in Cygwin 17.1).
>
>The problem only shows up on programs compiled with Cygwin (I just tested
>MinGW, it's fine), and only on console programs.
>
>My programming skills are mediocre, so I'm hoping someone more familiar
>with Cygwin might have a fix. (I'm not sure if this is helpful, but someone
>mentioned fhandler_console.cc.)

That someone was probably me.  I was asking for someone to provide a patch.
Nobody ever has.

cgf

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