Writing the... (was: reading the kb shift status)

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From: RAMontante
Date: Tue, 05 Jun 1990 14:01

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djb@wjh12.UUCP (David J. Birnbaum) <482@wjh12.harvard.edu> :
-About a week ago I posted an inquiry about the relative merits of checking
-the keyboard shift status by reading 0:0417 directly or using the available
-int 16h function.  Here is the summary I promised:
-
-====================================
-Use Int 16.
-====================================
-
-Nobody could think of any good reason for refusing to use the BIOS
-services. 


This makes me wonder about an issue I just got done dealing with, namely
software forcing of the scrolllock & numlock values.  Is there a BIOS
means of doing this, or must I diddle 0000:0417 to control these?

Or am I a terrible person for *wanting* to change these values?  :-)

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From: bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante)
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Subject: Writing the... (was: reading the kb shift status)
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Date: 5 Jun 90 14:01:09 GMT
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