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Anyone with ADB keyboard based NeXT(s) out there?



Dear Folks,

1.3 is on temporary hold again.  It turns out that somewhere along  
the way, we broke support for ADB keyboards again.  It's not clear to  
me whether we did something, or whether NS 3.1 behaves slightly  
differently than NS 3.0 did.  If you have an ADB keyboard based NeXT  
and can pick up Executor "1.3" as it currently exists on  
ftp.cs.unm.edu, can you do so and test it with Microsoft word and let  
me know what you find?

Even if you can't do the above, if you have an ADB keyboard based  
NeXT, can you drop me a line?  I'm tempted to send what we have to  
the duplicators and just add to the README saying that ADB keyboards  
don't currently work, but we'll release a 1.3.1 soon that does  
support them, but I won't do that if there are a bunch of ADB  
keyboard users out there.

In case you missed the great ADB keyboard flamewar, let me just  
mention that although there is a portable way to get the  
key-character under NEXTSTEP, there is *not* a portable way to get  
the key-CODE under NEXTSTEP, which is why emulation software is very  
sensitive to whatever NeXT does.  In this case I suspect that the  
problem is indeed ours, but without an ADB-based NeXT, it's very hard  
for us to test this.

	Thanks for your patience
	--Cliff