Re: Silly-question

[david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)]

dempson@atlantis.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
>This is the same function as the switch on the underside of the
>keyboard on the international IIe - it selects whether the "local" or
>US character set is enabled.  Australia and New Zealand have English
>IIe and IIcs, so we get the useless pound sign in the "local"
>character set.

On one of my //e computers I have used the switch to select between the old
][e character set (no mousetext) and the new mousetext set.

On the other I put a set of vt100 graphics characters (both normal & inverse)
in the 2nd half of the EPROM (std mousetext in the other half).

Now if I can only work out how to read the 8th bit of the keyboard ROM I could
make the arrow keys send a different code from their control key equivalents.
This would make terminal emualtors easier to write & use.
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David Wilson	Dept CompSci Uni Wollongong Australia	david@cs.uow.edu.au