Re: Toggling NumLock

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From: Carl Harris
Date: Wed, 30 Sep 1992 22:29

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While simply turning off the NumLock bit in the BIOS' keyboard status
variable requires only 16 bytes or so, turning off the appropriate 
indicator lights on the keyboard iff the machine is an AT-class box takes
several additional instructions.  Hence, NUMOFF.COM is about 40 bytes long.

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From: ceharris@csugrad.cs.vt.edu (Carl Harris)
Newsgroups: alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Toggling NumLock
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Date: 30 Sep 92 22:29:54 GMT
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