From: gt1562a@prism.gatech.EDU (Bruce W. McKee)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.laptops
Subject: Utilities to Switch the Control and Caps-Lock keys
Keywords: keys,keymapping,Control-key
Date: 16 Dec 92 22:35:46 GMT
Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology

This message summarizes responses to my request for TSRs that switch 
the Control and Caps-Lock key. My original request was as follows: 

   >Can anyone point me to software that will switch the Caps-Lock and Control
   >keys? I've been evaluating laptops and noticed that only a few put the
   >Control key to the left of "A" (necessary for us VI users that bounce 
   > between >PC's and workstations).

   >If such software exists commercially or on the net, will it conflict with
   >word-processing packages like Wordstar or Word?

I would like to thank the following people who so kindly responded to my
request: 

	Linda Lawrie       ==> lawriel@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu

        Webb V. Turner Jr. ==> WTURNER@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL

        Robert Hyatt       ==> hyatt@cis.uab.edu 

        John Verzani       ==> verzani@math.washington.edu

        K.N. Godev         ==> kalin@math.psu.edu

Based on their responses, there are a variety of TSRs that will do the job.
Some are available through certain responders, while others are available on 
archive servers garbo.uwasa.fi, wuarchive.uustl.edu, SIMTEL20, and
oak.oakland.edu (/pub/mdsos/keyboard). 


Bruce McKee
Georgia Institute of Technology
gt1562a@prism.gatech.edu
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I got one (from somewhere) called 'fixkat'.  If you are interested,
I could encode it and send it or you could look around the ftp
locations...

-- 
     Linda Lawrie
     lawriel@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu
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Bruce;

The program CTRLCAPS.COM written by Eric Meyer is included in the Video 
Display Editor VDE zip file on Simtel20 192.88.110.20  I have used it with all 
the programs I use on a PC but not Wordstar or Word unfortunately.

SIMTEL20  PD1:<MSDOS.EDITOR>VDE164C.ZIP

Hope this helps.

Webb

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I have written a tsr that does this.  It behaves like this:

pressing the capslock acts like you pressed the ctrl key.
pressing the ctrl key acts like you pressed the ctrl key.
pressing ctrl+capslock acts like you pressed the capslock key.


I have both masm source and/or an executable you can have if you
want them....

Bob
--
!Robert Hyatt                    Computer and Information Sciences   !
!hyatt@cis.uab.edu               University of Alabama at Birmingham !

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I've been pulling down various pieces of software and seem to remember
reading that there is a program at garbo.uwasa.fi that allows you to
do what it is you are after. Look at the dos directory INDEX to find
out for sure.

John Verzani

verzani@math.washington.edu
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it's called fixcat and i believe it's in mirrors/msdos/??
of th e wuarchive.wustl.edu
if you can't find it email me i'll uuencode it and mail it to you.
good luck

k

P.S.  It does work with emacs, windows 3.0. Never used Wordstar or Write.
kalin
-- 
Bruce W. McKee
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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