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From: billf@medicus.com (Bill Foote)
Subject: Re: IBM-Smalltalk special chars problem
Message-ID: <1995Jun17.002029.26845@medicus.com>
Organization: Medicus Systems Corp.
References: <3rsf2c$52f@vishnu.jussieu.fr>
Date: Sat, 17 Jun 1995 00:20:29 GMT
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In article <3rsf2c$52f@vishnu.jussieu.fr> jeannin@gla.ecoledoc.ibp.fr writes:
>
>I work with IBM-st & VisualAge Team and I've got exactly
>the same problems on a french keyboard. I've to use the
>copy/paste options to work !!

I don't remember the original article, but I assume that you're talking
about the difficulty of generating certain ASCII characters on a non-US
keyboard.

Have you tried the alt + numeric keypad trick?

I forget exactly what keys the AZERTY keyboard is missing, but for the
sake of argument, I'll assume that it's missing backslash.  Backslash
is ASCII 92, so you can "type" it by holding down ALT, and typing 92.
This is a standard DOS trick, but it often works in other contexts
(depending on how low a level the application you're using decides to
intercept keyboard events).

I just tried it, and with Digitalk Smalltalk (/V under 'doze NT) it works
as long as I have "Num Lock" mode on.

Of course, this assumes you're using a PC.

Amicalement,
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