"Mickey Ferguson" <fergusom@scrvm1.vnet.ibm.com> (06/12/91)
I have one possible explanation for the periodic keyboard beep problem: Remember that DOS has only a 12 character typeahead buffer. You may just be entering too many characters before the system can handle it. For example, let's say you are using a spreadsheet program with a very large table. You hit the calculate button, it takes 15 seconds or so to run through all of the calculations, and in the meantime you know that you want to move down twenty columns, so you hit your down arrow key twenty times. Well, only the first 12 can be buffered, since the spreadsheet won't handle the keyboard input until it has finished its calculations. As for your other problem, I really can't help. Mickey Ferguson Rolm Systems fergusom@scrvm1.vnet.ibm.com