stop CTRL_P for doing printscreen?

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From: Bailey Brown
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 04:12

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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?

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Bailey Brown                               "Above all else, confusion reigns."
Intergraph Corporation                                  
bbrown@casca.b11.ingr.com                              Procol Harum

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From: bbrown@infonode.ingr.com (Bailey Brown)
Subject: stop CTRL_P for doing printscreen?
Message-ID: <1992Jul30.041220.8028@infonode.ingr.com>
Organization: Intergraph Corporation, Huntsville, AL.
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 04:12:20 GMT
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