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From: newton@cleese.apana.org.au (Mark Newton)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs
Subject: Re: [HACK:] fix CAPSLOCK for good...
Date: 22 Jul 1993 18:52:12 +0930
Organization: cleese.apana.org.au public access UNIX
Lines: 22
Message-ID: <22lm8l$c0k@cleese.apana.org.au>
References: <22h1vs$6a6@aggedor.rmit.OZ.AU>
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.apana.org.au
Keywords: netbsd, 386bsd, hack, capslock
In article <22h1vs$6a6@aggedor.rmit.OZ.AU> zak@rmit.edu.au writes:
>Recently I obtained a very old DOS TSR (330 bytes long) which mapped
>the capslock key to ctrl (another control key), and to get caps,
>you have to hold right shift with caps. I like this alot (after many
>times of accidently hitting caps when I meant shift, tab, or A), and
>a ctrl key there is useful.
>
>So, I proceed to hack pccons.c (took about 30 minutes all up,
>including working out how the k/b routines worked).
Of course, those of us who run X-windows would know that you can
use xmodmap to achieve exactly the same result without having to
patch the kernel. :-)
"man xmodmap"
- mark
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