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Re: Keyboard handling, and CygWin 1.3.1


On Tue, May 15, 2001 at 03:55:13PM +0200, Steven Green wrote:
>On Thursday, May 10, 2001 12:17 PM, I wrote:
>
>> I have a UK keyboard with keyb uk loaded in autoexec.bat.  Since version
>> 1.3.1-1 of CygWin the pipe key (|) doesn't work inside Bash.  Going back
>to
>> version 1.1.8-2 of Cygwin.dll works again.
>
>This seems to be a Windows 98/Me problem... on Windows 2000, the pipe key
>works fine.
>
>Can someone familiar with the CygWin spurce code, point me towards where the
>keyboard handling is done, so I can see what changed between versions.  I
>checked code out from CVS but can not find where keyboard stuff is done.
>What I don't understand is how programs like Vim (which presumably use
>Cygwin.dll) handle the pipe key properly, but Bash doesn't.... but it was by
>downgrading Cygwin.dll that made it work again, which points towards Cygwin
>being the culprit rather than Bash.

Hmm.  A grep for the word "keyboard" unearthed a plethora of likely candidates
for investigation.  Most of them were in one file.

cgf

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