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From: veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de (Holger Veit)
Subject: KEYCAP Addendum
Date:  4 Aug 92 07:15:21 GMT
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Organization: Uni-Duisburg FB9 Datenverarbeitung
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Sorry: Some recent corrections to KEYCAP-0.1.0, announced yesterday.

1. The symbol for KBC_TPMRATE used in kbd.c is not defined.

   Add the following definition to /sys/i386/isa/kbd.h:

#define KBC_TPMRATE	0xF3	/* set typematic delay and rate */

2. In the german keymap which is included in keycap.template as an example,
   the definition for the umlaut-ue is reversed.

   Replace line

:K27=\232:S27=\201:C27=\035:\

   with

:K27=\201:S27=\232:C27=\035:\

3. As reported, there might be problems with the national key K29 and K42.
   Some brands of keyboards use these differently.
4. Also, currently there is no special codepage support. The vga-part uses the
   standard character ROM of the video card. This contains usally the standard
   mapping PC-8. If your special national language characters are not in this
   ROM, I cannot offer a good solution for the moment. Tell me whether this is
   the case for you.

Send comments and bug-reports to veit@du9ds3.uni-duisburg.de.

In the version currently available from ftp.uni-duisburg.de, typos 1 and 2
are corrected. The latest version is 47780 bytes in size.
Keycap-0.1.0 is available from

ftp.uni-duisburg.de (134.91.4.132) 
in /pub/unix/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/keycap-0.1.0.tar.Z

Hope that helps

Holger

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