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- From: "joe kovacs" <joe.kovacs@canrem.com>
- Subject: un: num lock???
- Message-ID: <1993Jan2.4881.37463@dosgate>
- Reply-To: "joe kovacs" <joe.kovacs@canrem.com>
- Organization: Canada Remote Systems
- Distribution: comp
- Date: 2 Jan 93 14:03:18 EST
- Lines: 43
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- On 12-31-92 17:39, Jeff Altman wrote to All as follows:
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- JA> Nick Zahariadis (g1nickut@cdf.toronto.edu) wrote:
- JA> : In article <1992Dec30.182954.12522@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
- JA> jks4675@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes: : >Why the #$%@ does OS/2 turn off
- JA> my numlock key when it boots up?? : >My BIOS (AMI) is set to turn it
- JA> on. : >
- : >Help, this is driving me nuts....
- JA> :
- JA> : I feel the same way exactly! I have been trying to figure this one
- JA> out : for a while and I can't find an answer. Someone please help.
- JA> :
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- JA> You can thank the early users of OS/2 1.0 for this feature. Remember
- JA> that when OS/2 1.0 was released there were few if any extended
- JA> keyboards with separate number keypads. Most users used the keypads as
- JA> arrow keys.
- JA> Therefore, IBM programmers received tons of complaints when they
- JA> turned on the NumLock key automatically as was originally the default.
- JA> Because IBM likes to be consistent (not a bad thing to be) they have
- JA> never changed it back now that extended keyboards are more common.
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- Here's what you do. Find a demo (shareware) file named KLOCK2.ZIP 42K
- 9-02-92. It's a demo of KEYLOCKS II v2.00D. It'll control the numlock,
- capslock and scroll-lock, as you want, upon boot of OS/2. It's on the
- OS/2 Shareware BBS, 703-385-4325, if you can't find it locally.
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- This item was discussed in a couple of FIDO nets. It's a very polarized
- issue.
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- I vehemently want the #%%$@ thing off, as JA said above.
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- Joe Kovacs FIDO: 1:229/15
- Guelph ON Internet/Usenet: joe.kovacs@canrem.com
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- ... File not found. Should I fake it? (Y/N)
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