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Paul,
<p>After struggling with the keyboards in France, I was very relieved to
find only minor problems with the keyboards in Spain. As I remember, on
a French keyboard, it was necessary to use the shift to get the numbers
(a was lower case), but the biggest problem was that two major sets of
keys were switched. One set was A and Q and the other set was M and something
else - I forget what now. The keys had the characters on them, so I looked
at the keyboard most of the time. This worked for a while, although
I was very slow at it. The climax came when I was working at what I thought
was a regular French keyboard (in Oloron), at least the keys where labelled
that way. However, when I typed out my password to get my e-mail, I was
informed that it was invalid. I couldn't read the password because it was
in the usual bullets, but when I went back the third time to re-entering
may name to start over again, in frustration, I typed what I thought would
be an expletive, but it had a Q in place of an A. Then I realized that,
although the keyboard had the French labelling, it was wired like an American
keyboard. After that, I let my fingers do the typing and ignored the labels.
Then it worked properly.
<p>regards,
<p>Bob Spenger
<p>Paul Newfield wrote:
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<font face="Arial"><font size=-1>True
enough, but the Spanish KEYBOARDS were hard to get used to. (Ya just gottaq
love our own Q-W-E-R-T-Y keyboards).</font></font> <font face="Arial"><font size=-1>Paul
Newfield III (SdeC, May 26, 1999)</font></font> <font face="Tempus Sans ITC"><font color="#0000FF">Of
course. They are everywhere. Some albergues even have them
FREE for pilgrims' use.</font></font>
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are there internet cafes along the way</font>
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