🚀 go-pugleaf

Is it possible to simulate the pressing of Alt/Space in a DOS window, in
order to bring up the System menu?  I need to be able to do this for a
project I am working on.

I would think the following fragment ought to work, but it doesn't:

	xor ax,ax
	mov ds,ax
	or byte ptr [417],8		; Turn on Alt
	mov ax,4F39			; (39 = scan code for space)
	stc				; sentinel for ignoring key
	int 15
	...

Note: the above code was cribbed from the reboot code in the
comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ.

My background:  I am an experienced DOS programmer, and have written
many "pop" programs to pop up TSRs that read the keyboard directly, so I
am familiar with the general concepts (tracing the interrupts, etc)
Generally, all you have to do is follow the INT 9 handler, but I noticed
that WIN386 doesn't capture INT 9, so I am surmising that it is watching
the keyboard via INT 15.  (It could also be doing it via INT 8, but that
didn't seem to be the case)

But I am not a Windows programmer, nor do I have any desire to be.
Thus, email responses would be greatly appreciated, since I probably
don't read this group...

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