From: jdashiel AT eagle1 DOT eaglenet DOT com
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 1997 19:13:20 -0500 (EST)
To: "Colin W. Glenn" <cwg01 AT gnofn DOT org>
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Subject: Re: [opendos] [OpenDOS] Wishlist part 2 
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Why not sticky key facilities for the alt key such that if a particular
combination is used it toggles them on and off.  Maybe alt-s, don't know=20
since
someone else may already use that combination.  Once the sticky keys are=20
on
any key that's not on the number pad that's hit generates an error beep.
The sticky key mode could also adjust the numlock state as well.
once that's done, we're down to logical selection of numbers for
functions.
One question I have is whether numbers could be entered higher than 256
and if so could any
response be elicited from those entries once done.  If that's possible
the feasible limit is 256-999 and
our sticky key mode might automatically add that 255 to every value
entered to help provide a little
user protection too.  I know mskermit has some pretty unique scan codes
that it uses and generates so this might be possible.
On
Thu, 27 Feb 1997, Colin W. Glenn wrote:

> On Fri, 28 Feb 1997 dg AT dcs DOT st-and DOT ac DOT uk wrote:
> > [...]
> > >The Alt-Gr-Funny_key gives a char 179 under DOS, and a =A6 under windo=
ze.
> >=20
> > High-bit set characters have a special meaning under FAT, AFAIK. They=
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> > certainly did under CP/M. I think if the first character has its top bi=
t set=20
> > that marks the file as being deleted.
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> Errr, deleted files are marked by the character 0E5h, otherwise, (afaik),
> no restrictions on upper bit characters, but then you have the problem of
> how the user is supposed to achieve the weird key, especially if the
> codepage tends to remap the chr he's trying to achieve.
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