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bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown) writes:
: I am writing a program and I want to use the CTRL_P key combination
: in it.  I am using bioskey() to read keys.  When I press "ctrl-p"
: my program does not see it, and when I exit my program, I get an
: "abort retry fail ignore" message because the printer isn't turned
: on.  At first I thought 4dos was up to something, but the docs say
: that ctrl-p is intercepted by the bios and has something to do
: with printscreen.  I there any way to get around this behavior?
 
If you aren't too squeamish, you could write an new keyboard interrupt,
or at least enough to grab the ^P and notify your program, and then
chain to the original keyboard interrupt(?). -or you could convert the
^P to some more harmless character, feed it to the original kbd int and
let your program detect the character at that point by more conventional
means.  No, I've never done it before either, but it should be a piece of
cake.  ;-)

Hope this can at least be loosely construed as "help".

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