caps lock fault

[Keith Fielding <keithf at gaast dot demon dot co dot uk>]

On my W95 system, I have a problem with the caps lock which behaves as a
shift lock. (The numeric keys are all shifted as well as the alpha
keys). While I have seen mention of this in the archives, I have not
found any solution there (other than the fact that does not seem to
affect NT based systems).

I wrote a short test program:

#include <stdio.h>

int main (void)
{
  char buffer[80];

  gets (buffer);
  puts (buffer);
  return 0;
}

When I compile this (gcc -o mytest mytest.c) it exhibits the problem
whether I run it in bash window or an MS-DOS window. When I compile it
with the -mno-cygwin switch it works correctly when run from an MS-DOS
window but from a bash window it simply advances two lines and returns
to the bash prompt! The behaviour is unchanged if I replace the call to
gets with a call to fgets.

I then tried this program:

#include <conio.h>
#include <stdio.h>

int main (void)
{
  int ch;

  do {
    ch = getch ();
    printf ("%c\n", ch);
  } while (ch != 'q');
  return 0;
}

This can only be compiled with the -mno-cygwin switch because of the
conio header. It displays the fault whether I run it in a bash window or
an MS-DOS window.

Any ideas?
-- 
Keith Fielding

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