[Virtualacorn-list] Mystery carriage returns

[charles]

On 12 May, ATimbrell <ATimbrell at aol.com> wrote:
> In a message dated 12/05/2009 13:16:45 GMT Daylight Time,
> brian.jordan9 at btinternet.com writes:

> >Having had another rash of these events which couldn't be stopped in 
> >this way, it occurs to me that it might be possible to write a routine
> >to  put in !Boot/Utils to flush the keyboard buffer in much the same way
> >as  HOff tidies up a persistent hourglass to avoid rebooting. Two 
> >questions, would this work and is there a simple fx command to achieve 
> >this?
>  
> It's certainly possible to flush the keyboard buffer. However I don't 
> think that this would help - as without a key up event the buffer will
> just get filled up again. Out of interest I wonder what would happen if
> (when this event occured) the keyboard was unplugged from the machine?
> Obviously this can only be tried with a USB keyboard and would be done at
> the "owners risk".
>  
further to my posting of last week, I replaced the PS2>USB converter to one
that I was told was checked for RISC machine working.  All the phantom
keypresses have gone.  But I now get phantom mouse clicks instead ! These
are a bit more fatal. 

 I've taken Aaron's advice and ordered a USB KVM and a new USB keyboard -
present one being PS2 only.  They should have been delivered today but I
was out.  So it will now be tomorrow before I try it all out.

-- 
>From KT24 - in "Leafy Surrey"

Using a RISC OS computer running v5.11