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Article #894Re: Summary: How to flush keyboard buffer
From: Kenneth Falck
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:28
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:28
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In article <1992Aug13.100340.26026@NCoast.ORG> brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown) writes: >I can understand why keyboard input is so confusing. At a quick count I >see eight DOS and BIOS functions to take keystrokes from the buffer or >check the buffer for waiting keystrokes, or both. No wonder people get >confused! So, the obvious solution is for everyone to capture INT 9 and do your own keyboard functions based on hardware-port reads and writes :-) >-- >Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems brown@Ncoast.ORG > >"Ingrate, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise >an object of charity." --Ambrose Bierce -- kennu@mits.mdata.fi
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Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!mits!kennu From: kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck) Subject: Re: Summary: How to flush keyboard buffer Message-ID: <1992Aug13.212849.6013@mits.mdata.fi> Keywords: Keyboard buffer, DOS Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland References: <3748@keele.keele.ac.uk> <1992Aug13.100340.26026@NCoast.ORG> Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:28:49 GMT Lines: 19