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In article <27SEP199221155761@pavo.concordia.ca> m_rheau@pavo.concordia.ca (RHEAUME, MICHEL) writes:
>As simple as it sounds, I can't think of a way to
>toggle the NumLock key (through software of course!).

The 1st Edition of PC Magazine's DOS Power Tools book comes with a disk
containing two 46 byte com files entitled NUMOFF.COM and NUMON.COM.
Unfortunately, they did not include the source.  However, I think these are
probably available for download from the PC Magazine BBS.

Notice I said the 1st Edition.  The 2nd Edition of the book, which has been
updated to cover MS-DOS 5.0, no longer has these two programs on the software
disks that come with the book.

I am sure there are public domain programs which do the same thing, but I
don't personally know of any.

Newer systems provide a setup option which allows you to select the default
setting which NUM LOCK should have at the completion of a system boot.
Perhaps your's has this option and you just didn't notice.

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