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Re: Continous Keyboard interrupt

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From: AMBAT SASI S/O PALISSERY P
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1992 23:20
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Philippe Desaulniers (flipper@pascal) wrote:
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:  I am wondering how is it possible to get a continous keyboard interrupt, i.e. to prevent the standard PC procedure wich consists in getting a caracter once, then wait a bit, then get a series of caracters (when you keep a key pressed for a while). Of course my intention is to use the keypad's arrows as a "joystick".
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: Is that standard procedure due to DOS? or the BIOS? or what?
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: I am using your everyday PC, and I program with Bordland's Turbo C 2.01 & Microsoft's MASM.
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: If anyone can help me, I'd be very thankful....
: 
use BIOS int 9 to activate an interrupt driven module.
then read port 60h for scan code.

sasi.
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