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Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]>
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Bruce Toback <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 9 Jul 1999 12:39:42 -0700
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Tom Emerson writes:
>[Ron Burnett wrote:]
>>Time for the 'shake it all about' trick.  Just grasp the keyboard,
>>one hand on each side, turn it over, and shake like mad.  You'll
>>get enough crumbs and debris out of it for at least one meal.
>>And it might make the m work.
>>
>>I'm being serious.
>
>
>I've done that before, and yes I'd say that would be a valid solution --IF--
>the " " key didn't work AT ALL.  However, the " " key doesn't work for ONLY
>this one application -- I wrote the original & this response fro  the sa e
>keyboard, so I know it isn't a sticky-key/dead-contact proble .  Regular
>telnet to the machine works, and I can log in with  y na e (since it has an
>" " in it) that way, but telnet and freevt3k don't recognize the HP ter inal
>escape sequences for cursor positioning.

Start shaking, Tom.

-- Bruce


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