by It is somewhat off topic but not completely, so please bare with my rant!
A few weeks ago I installed MS Windows XP on my English Window98 at home.
The only thing I liked about XP was better Japanese support. The thing I
hated most was Office did something to OS and now my keyboard behave
weird. Some character are buffered, and I assume it tries to allow user to
input accented character. It's useless for both Japanese/English, the
language I uses. I tried to figure out way to turn off feature but
couldn't. I am choosing US English 101 key, which sounded most plain
among all options. So I decided to live with it.
Tragedy hit me today. I was accessing Digital UNIX box using Tera Term
telnet client. I wanted to clear backup files generated my editors
(filename~) and typed
rm *~<cr>
My os buffered tilde, but did not buffer <cr>, ended up sending
rm *
I got messages like
save is directory
tmp is directory
.
.
.
I typed
l
and got echo of
~l
unknown user l
I lost lots of jobs script which would take hours of my time (glad they
were recoverable...) Ahhhh!
Well, thanks for listning. I will cry a little more and find newsgroup of
whatever for windows to fix this. If you have pointer for this I'd
appreciate it too.
Love,
yosuke kimura
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yosuke kimura
Center for Energy and Environmental Resources
The Univ. of Texas at Austin, USA