"Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>  wrote:
 > In the past, I've sometimes used num-lock to activate the built-in 
 > numeric pad, in which case the ';' key is <numpad minus>, but that no 
 > longer seems to work, probably because I can't get numlock to activate.

Same here. I was all over he keyboard trying to get the numlock to
come on.  It seems like it wants to be "shift-scrollock" but that
just causes a beep.

I'm coming back across the atlantic tomorrow and I'm loaded up with
movies, so maybe I'll have another go at it.