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



I just tried it on a TurboColor under 3.2.  The only things that did NOT work were <shift  
Tab> (Backtab) and nothing worked on the  keypad  (0 to 9, =,/,*'-'+'.'<Enter>.
I hope this helps,
Peter

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From: Clifford T. Matthews <iclone!ctm@cs.unm.edu>
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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