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Sindi Keesan wrote:
>
> we could not figure out whether to type k, or 3 then k

BL3 understands both options.  As well as K and 3K.

> In BL3 I would have typed just 'k' to keep messages, 

That works.

> and just H for help (not 6H).

All of them work in BL3:  H or h or 6H or 6h.
 
> Other people have reported needing to boot twice to get 
> something to work.  I think it was Xvesa.

I assumed that occurred because of DOS himem garbage.
I recommend that people boot from bare DOS (without 
CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT).  

> There seems to be some video prolem - missing curssor in rxvt, 
> missing numbers in mail, missing letters in startx, need to 
> reboot to get video to work with Xvesa.

Are you booting from bare DOS?

Cheers,
Steven