From: Brandon S. Allbery (bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org)
Date: 03/30/93 

From: bsa@kf8nh.wariat.org (Brandon S. Allbery)
Subject: Re: 0.99.7A bug (keyboard related) ??
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 1993 02:38:18 GMT

In article <DELMAN.93Mar28163735@mipgsun.mipg.upenn.edu> delman@mipg.upenn.edu (Delman Lee) writes:
>I am running 0.99.7A on a 386SX-20MHz 8M RAM with XFree86 1.2.
>
>My system hangs if I am in X and am holding down the backward-char key
>in, say, emacs. The cursor moves backward char-by-char, and then the
>system hangs after a paragraph of so. It does not hang if I am out of
>X.

I suspect it's a problem that was there and got worse in 0.99.7A. I can crash
0.99.4/Xfree86 1.0YA by swapping caps lock and control and holding down the
control (now caps lock) key (1.0YA bug: doesn't turn off auto-repeat).

++Brandon 

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