Re: Toggling NumLock

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From: Jochen "Joscho" Schoof
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 09:30

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From article <1992Sep28.163323.10278@digi.lonestar.org>, by kgallagh@digi.lonestar.org (Kevin Gallagher):
> 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.
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I really wonder how this can be as big as 46 Bytes. You can easily write
that thing using MS-DOS' debug (yep, it is good for something) in 12
bytes, if I remeber it correctly. I don't have it at hand now, but I'll
post it tomorrow.

- Jochen

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From: schoof@dec8.informatik.uni-wuerzburg.dbp.de (Jochen "Joscho" Schoof)
Subject: Re: Toggling NumLock
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