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bug in RS 6000 keyboard mapping

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (the first ten languages are the ha)
Sun Feb 16 12:50:17 1992

To: hotline@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Sun, 16 Feb 92 12:50:04 EST
From: "the first ten languages are the hardest" <sethg@Athena.MIT.EDU>

On the new IBM RS 6000s (with Emacs running), the Backspace key is mapped
to DEL, and shift-Backspace is mapped to DEL, but *when Caps Lock is on,*
Backspace is mapped to ^H.  (The Delete key is still mapped to DEL.)

Go figure.

--SG

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