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to: RICH VERAA
from: JACK STEIN
date: 1998-05-13 07:06:00
subject: am I reading this right?

Rich Veraa wrote in a message to Jack Stein:
JS> No, this is a Gateway 120 Anykey keyboard from around 1991-92.  It's
JS> the best key board I've ever used, including the newer Anykey boards
JS> that require more fussing around to program (users would hit the
JS> program key and remap half there keys before they knew it I guess). 
JS> It requires nothing to work with OS/2, or any other OS far as I
JS> know, just plugged it in and it works. 
 RV> Can you program it to do "sticky keys?"  I mean setting the
 RV> , , and  keys so that if you hit them once,
 RV> the NEXT key hit will be affected by the shify, ctl or alt. 
 RV> This is needed by the disabled who type with a stick and
 RV> cannot press more than one key at a time.
I don't think it will do this, other than you can program Shift+Ctl+Alt+the 
keystrokes you need next to one key.
 RV> There are utilities to do this with software in DOS or
 RV> Windows, and it can be done in OS/2 (but it's clumsy to
 RV> use), but there's no way to do it in Linux.  I use a
 RV> Northgate Omnikey programmable keyboard (very expensive and
 RV> hard to get), and have been looking for other alternatives.
You could assign Shift+Ctrl to one of the extra F1 keys for example, then 
when the app called for a 3 key combo, hit that F1 key, the program will 
pause then waiting for the 3rd key.  
As far as expensive goes, I recall around 3-4 years ago gateway was selling 
this keyboard for $35, I wish I would have bought an extra then.  Someone 
posted once who made it for Gateway, wish I had saved that message also.
                                              Jack 
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