From rhoskins@home.com Thu Sep 9 19:50:25 1999 Received: from mxu4.u.washington.edu (mxu4.u.washington.edu [140.142.33.8]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.02/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id TAA47250 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 19:50:25 -0700 Received: from mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (imail@ha1.rdc1.wa.home.com [24.0.2.66]) by mxu4.u.washington.edu (8.9.3+UW99.09/8.9.3+UW99.08) with ESMTP id TAA09493 for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 19:50:24 -0700 Received: from c501552a ([24.5.121.123]) by mail.rdc1.wa.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990910025023.CNZH22396.mail.rdc1.wa.home.com@c501552a> for ; Thu, 9 Sep 1999 19:50:23 -0700 Message-ID: <000901befb37$2d030be0$7b790518@olmpi1.wa.home.com> From: "Richard E. Hoskins" To: References: Subject: Re: transforming CapsLock Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 19:49:59 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2615.200 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2615.200 Andy: I will try this - don't get me going on Windows ... I am a long time UNIX user. I once used a UNIX machine that wasn't "rebooted" for 5 years. "reboot" is a DOS invention we still live with. You may get the map anyway just for a good effort. However there are other contenders - no success yet. My Swiss Army knife may be the ultimate solution. Give us a URL for Kinesis. Thanks Richard E. Hoskins rhoskins@home.com ----- Original Message ----- From: Andrew E Long To: Sent: Thursday, September 09, 1999 7:17 PM Subject: Re: transforming CapsLock > Richard, > I don't know if this will merit the WA State map, but try > http://bmrc.berkeley.edu/people/chaffee/winntutil.html > (for NT) to turn your CapsLock key into a Control key. There are similar > utilities for others flavors of Windows, usually created by emacs lovers. > If you would only use Xwindows and UNIX why the solution is > obvious (xmodmap). > The other alternative is to buy a programmable, ergonomic keyboard > like my Kinesis keyboard (no stock, no paid endorsements - only happy > fingers). That way you can turn A into Z if you like. > Andy > > > .