In article <Pine.GSO.4.21.0003030950480.5000-100000@benjy.onvoy.com>, Dan Boehlke <dboehlke@mr.net> wrote:

its not so much that my shift key doesn't work, that i gave it up to have an extra meta key for emacs functions to be mapped to. :-)

Microsoft was thoughtful enough to cause most new PCs to be shipped with three extra meta keys. Under X it is easy to start using them. -- Shields.