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Weird keyboard remapping after running PCCOM in a Win95 DOS box.



Q. When I run PCCOM in a DOS window on Windows '95, when I exit, keyboard
   processing is different - some characters are echoed fine, others do
   different things. First instance, "I"s do nothing, "J"s act like
   backspaces, etc. It's like they being interpreted as control characters.
   The problem is I can't type the word "EXIT" to get back to Windows, or the
   word "BREAK" to disable control-character processing (I don't know if that
   would help). Also, the display characteristics (chars per line, lines per
   screen) are different. Any suggestions as to how I can restore normal
   keyboard processing and screen characteristics?

A. The problem is that on a laptop, the numkeys are underneath the
   characters on the right side of the keyboard ('P', 'O', 'I', etc.) But,
   I think we got the problem solved now. We need to press Shift-NumKey to
   turn off numlock after starting PCCom. Everything works fine now.