Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!mks!wheels
From: wheels@mks.UUCP (Gerry Wheeler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Computing for physically disabled?
Message-ID: <596@mks.UUCP>
Date: 8 Dec 88 16:33:38 GMT
References: <17286@prls.UUCP>
Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ont.
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In article <17286@prls.UUCP>, flanner@prls.UUCP (Philip D. Flanner III) writes:
> My cousin has a physical disability (cerebral palsy) that makes it 
> difficult for her to type.
> Is there a way to change the operation of a IBM PC
> (XT, clone etc..) in software to not auto-repeat?

Sorry I don't have a direct answer to your question, but rather another
point.  A second feature she'll probably find handy is "sticky keys". 
If it is difficult to press two keys simultaneously (shift+anything), a
sticky shift key lets you press and release shift, then press the
character.  The shift automatically releases when the character is
pressed.  It's fewer keystrokes than using caps lock, and it also shifts
numerics, etc. The same could work for the alt key. As you say, a TSR
is likely needed to alter the keyboard's behaviour. Good luck.
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