Re: Difference between "ESC" and "8" ??

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From: Steve Lindsay
Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 05:19

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In article <1992Dec19.044654.25980@mnemosyne.cs.du.edu> slindsay@nyx.cs.d
.edu (Steve Lindsay) writes:
>
>I am using getch from Borland C++ 3.1 and I can not
>tell the difference between the "ESC" key and the 
>"8" key.  When I tell it to do this if I hit the ESC key
>it also will do it if I hit the 8 key.  Anyone with ideas
>of how to make it tell the difference.
>
>Thanx for the help.........steve
>

Sorry people.... I meant to say in this original post how
do you make it tell the difference between the "8" key and
the "Backspace" key not the ESC key...

  Just another one of my many goofs!!!

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