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Article #313Re: alt 255 ; question
From: Janne Kukonlehto
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 06:16
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1992 06:16
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garrem@aix.rpi.edu (Matthew Olsen Garretson) writes: > Is this ALT-255 thing a function of DOS or is it built into the keyboard BIOS? > > If the former is the case, it doesn't work with DOS 5 + 4DOS 4 + ansi.sys . > > If the latter is the case, it doesn't work with my chips. > > No big deal, but I'm just curious.... > -- > Matt Garretson :-) garrem@rpi.edu 4DOS uses ALT-255 thing as a escape key for entering normally non-printable characters ( eg. ctrl-a ... ctrl-z ). To get ALT-255 itself you should type it twice or modify settings in 4DOS.INI file. - Janne Kukonlehto jtklehto@phoenix.oulu.fi
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