Edward Lau wrote in a message to Peter Fitzsimmons:

 EL> This application is a text MODE application.  It is a DOS
 EL> text mode app. The runtime is very portable. Dataflex does
 EL> run on DOS, OS/2, Unixes and Windows (3.1, NT, 95).  The
 EL> runtime is written to be portable. As a result they
 EL> implemented the lowest common denominator.  The way we
 EL> worked around the COMM port issues in a DOS environment is
 EL> use a 3rd party TSR to accept input from the COMM ports and
 EL> re-direct it into the keyboard buffer.  In our application
 EL> it seems like the operator have typed it in.

The question is: When you run Dataflex in its native OS/2 flavor, exactly
how does it read from the keyboard?  If you can find that out, maybe we can
come up with suggestions.
 
-- Mike


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