Re: W2K key switching limitation -- call for help

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Sun Apr 23 2000 - 02:44:27 EDT


Jeffrey...
have you ever thought about doing a custom code parg for wordstar..??
or, maybe, one already exists.. ??

Jeffrey Baker wrote:

> I'm about to put Windows 2000 on a 770Z, but have just learned that key
> remap utilities - which I use to swap Ctrl and CapsLock keys for all my
> work - will not run under W2K. The reason the remapping is so important to
> me is that I rely very much on an excellent WordStar keyboard command
> add-in
> (http://www.petrie.u-net.com/computing/wordstar/emulators/word8/pages/wordst
> ar.htm) to enable a touch-typing based WordStar command set in Outlook and
> MS Word. I, and a surprising number of others with intensive word
> processing requirements, have traditionally used the Keyboard Remapping
> Utility in the W95 Kernel Toys Set
> (http://www.microsoft.com/windows95/downloads/contents/WUToys/W95KernelToy/D
> efault.asp) or the ZDNet Key Remap Utility
> (http://hotfiles.zdnet.com/cgi-bin/texis/swlib/hotfiles/info.html?fcode=000O
> JB&b=) to switch Ctrl and CapsLock keys for this purpose.
>
> I was hoping that list members' familiarity with NT and now W2K might
> produce a remedy here. Does anyone know how these two keys can be remapped
> under these programs, or whether it may be possible at all?
>
> Many thanks - Jeff plumbush2_at_mediaone.net

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Happy trails...

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