Subj : Curious fault
To   : Alan Hess
From : Mike Luther
Date : Wed Jun 22 2005 10:08 am

You know Alan ..

 AH> Could you have had "sticky keys" set?  I forget where, 
 AH> but there's an option somewhere in OS/2 that makes 
 AH> "action" keys like ctrl and alt and shift act like 
 AH> they're pressed down and kept down to make life easier 
 AH> for disabled typists who couldn't hold down the action 
 AH> key simultaneously with another key. Check Keyboard 
 AH> under System Settings.  *adh*
 AH>    

This is the first time I've had anyone propose this in all these years. When I 
read this post I took a look in the Information and Help folder,but didn't find 
it there.  Then I looked at the keyboard folder in the OS/2 folder and spotted 
the Special Needs setting pane there.  Without trying the technique, it looks 
like if you enable the technique, there is a timing for delays you can, indeed, 
add to the keyboard!  And reading through the help folders on it, I sure can 
see how you would have seen to point this out...

But if I haven't ever enabled this with the normal way of enablement for the 
technique, how would one stumble into this .. by accident .. if you will?  I 
didn't spot any sort of 'toggle' key combo for toggling between enablement and 
disablement that could be raw keyboard prompted.

So what you are saying is that, somehow, system wise, from a possible 
corruption standpoint, what we are seeing is a slippage into this Special Needs 
sticky keyboard tool?



--> Sleep well; OS/2's still awake! ;)

Mike @ 1:117/3001

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