At 09:44 PM 9/6/2006 -0400, Paul Abrahams wrote:
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On Wednesday 06 September 2006 9:36 pm, Doug McGarrett wrote:
As far as a program, what could be better than pushing all the keys?
How would that catch a sticky shift key? Similar problem for Home and End and probably a few others. I've seen a program (don't remember the OS or anything) where you see a picture of a keyboard on the screen and press each key in turn. If the key is working properly the one on the screen darkens or something like that.
Paul
I guess you have been around for a while. I think that program was a DOS routine, or maybe even something from CPM! I do remember it. It does not seem to be on my machine today. However, there seem to be a whole batch of programs available on Google, probably all for M/S systems. Just type in "keyboard test" and watch what happens. --doug