Mozilla 1.3 messenger quirk? was Re: debian?

[Leon Goldstein]

Tim Wunder wrote inter alia:

>> I have a CD with NS 4.79 lying around somewhere.  There is a problem 
>> I've reported previously about wheelmouse scrolling.
>
>
> Wasn't that related to the status of the numlock? My brain keeps 
> thinking that the numlock needs to be off for NS 4.7x to scroll with 
> the wheel mouse.
>
> Regards,
> Tim 

I set numlock to default off in the BIOS on all of my boxes.

Why, you ask?  Force of habit.  Back when I was using DOS, I needed to 
use extended ASCII characters for German documents.
With DOS WP6.x, alt + xxx (e.g. alt + 129  from the numeric key pad 
prints an umlaut u, alt + 225 the "eszet" double s character.)
Numlock has to be off for this to work.  Perversely, with Windows, the 
same procedure works, but with numlock on.

One thing I do not like about Linux is the absence of this facility.  
Either I use a German language keyboard, or poke around in the WP insert 
character menu.  Typing German is much easier and faster for me using 
DOS WP6.2, and that is why I keep a DOS box up and running.

-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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