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[Ron Clarke <ariadne@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hi Folks,

On Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:47:27 +0700
Constant Brouerius van Nidek <constant@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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> The supply of keyboards without windows keys is becoming thin. I have still 
> one of these for my main machine but for the computer of my wife we have to 
> use an windows keyboard.

   Apart from two worn-out keyboards, all my keyboards have the same Windows 
keys on them.

   I just ignore those two keys, and the keyboards work just fine in DOS and in 
Linux.

   And, yes, I found it irritating beyond belief that I was unable to purchase 
a new keyboard without those Microsoft-specific keys.


> On this keyboard I have two keys with for me unknown use for windows. One has 
> the waving windows flag, the other something like a list with an arrow.

   In Linux, it is fairly easy to allocate those two keys to any two functions 
you want.
Not sure how to do that in DOS, but I'm confident it can be done.

> Does somebody know of an Dos (DrDos) program which is able of making a good 
> use of these two unused keys? 

   I guess it just needs a re-mapping of the keyboard, possibly loaded at 
boot-up.

Regards,
         Ron

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