Re: Alternative to bioskey

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From: George Swan
Date: Sat, 24 Oct 1998 00:00

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In article <362EA84C.97C0DC8E@realware.com.au>,
Derek Lavine  <derek@realware.com.au> wrote:
>Hi all,

>I need to use an alternative to bioskey() to read characters. I know I
>can use getch() but this does not pick up

>CTRL, INS, SHIFT, ALT, NUMLOCK etc.

You cross-posted this to Borland group, so presumably
you are using a Borland compiler.  The bioskey() in my
BC++ 3.1 does allow one to check the status of CTRL,
SHIFT, ALT, INSERT, NUMLOCK, CAPSLOCK etc.  If you
RTFM you will see you use a different argument to learn
about these keys.

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Subject: Re: Alternative to bioskey
Date: 1998/10/24
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