Oops my bad! I only tested it with EDIT loaded but not with an open
document. Doesn't work.
On Sat, Mar 5, 2016 at 5:35 PM, John Hupp wrote:
> Does that work in EDIT with a document open?
>
> If so, is that on real hardware or a virtual machine?
>
> I have never had that key combo work in Edit o
Does that work in EDIT with a document open?
If so, is that on real hardware or a virtual machine?
I have never had that key combo work in Edit on perhaps a dozen
different old computers.
On 3/5/2016 4:18 PM, Don Flowers wrote:
R ALT-X works for me on a 2014 Acer Aspire E5 Laptop.
I wonder i
R ALT-X works for me on a 2014 Acer Aspire E5 Laptop.
I wonder if the root of this issue is that there no longer seems to be a
keyboard standard (as we knew it in DOS); where TSRs were the norm.
I have several TSR programs connected to either Left Shift or Left CTRL and
my favorite TSR (PC-OUTLINE
Ever since I moved from MS-DOS to FreeDOS years ago, I have been annoyed
by some R-Alt key behavior. (This is on a US ANSI-layout keyboard.)
The classic illustration was in Edit, where I couldn't R-Alt+X to exit.
But my touch-typing technique for a L-Alt+X would be left index finger
on L-Alt,
OK, I found that at
http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/dos/keyb/ there
is a critical little difference between the contents of the v2.0 and
v2.01 directories.
2.01 does not contain the KC zip packages.
2.00 does, and the DOC directories of the KC packages contain a KEY.TXT
