On 4 Apr 02 at 1:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >There exist a few possibilities and work arounds. >a) use xdosemu (might be difficult for you in your circumstances though) or >b) use $_rawkeyboard=(1) or the -k option. This requires (suid)root for >dosemu.bin, bypasses the terminal and passes keystrokes directly (use >ctrl+alt+fkey to switch consoles) or c) use a workaround with different >keys. Press > ctrl+^ h > (that's ctrl+6 h on US keyboards) > to get help about which keys to use. > >A Unix/Linux terminal simply does not provide all possible key >combinations that DOS applications require.
Is this statement also true in *xdosemu*? Is there a way to customize the keyboard for a given application in order to use *all* combinations necessary for that program, or will the possible workaraounds be only compromises? Maybe this is a silly or too philosophical question, but I am really confused now about the question, which programs control the keyboard on top of which other programs, and which of them can be cheated, switched off, patched... An example: A combination ALT+Key in a word processor to call a menu would not always be necessary as far as the menu is accessible also in an other way. But the use of SHIFT+curser to mark a block can decide on the general usability of such an application. Christof _______________________________________________ Christof Lange <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Prokopova 4, 130 00 Praha 3, Czech Republic phone: (+420-2) 22 78 06 73 / 22 78 20 02 http://www.volny.cz/cce.zizkov - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-msdos" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
