Erstellt : Mittwoch dem 29.04.98                         Erhalten am 30.04.98
von      : *Gerald Miller@1:153/715.6* an *Claus Mueller*
Hallo Gerald,
CM>>>> Thank you anyway.
GM>>> Were the two archives that I posted, of any use for you?
CM>> In fact one would have been enough, because they both contained
CM>> exactly the  same stuff.
GM> I believe one file operated from the command line and the other was
GM> loaded via the CONFIG.SYS file.  While the function they performed may
GM> be similar, the two files were not identical!
both archives contained a com file of the same name with 793 byte in length.
CM>> Though the programs were short they did not do much more than
CM>> setting/getting  the DOS Break flag via int 21h function 33h.
GM> Considering the vintage of the programs, I guess that's all the
GM> programmers ever envisioned would be required.
I have to guess the meaning of the above sentence, cause my dictionaire  
spares some words.
GM> The only time I ever used a keyboard driver was when my computer BIOS
GM> did not support the enhanced keyboard -- I've since upgraded the
GM> computer and have no requirement for a keyboard driver.
So you're somewhat lucky. There might be another need f.e. acessing the line  
elements via a keypress.
GM> I thought that under fairly ordinary circumstances, the files that I
GM> posted would be sufficient and I had no prior knowledge that the files
GM> would have to be functional with your specialized keyboard driver.
No, that wasn't meant that way. It would have been nice if the program would  
have worked by hooking into the kbd ints 9 and 16, checking for ctrl-break,  
and dropping it if told eventually before reusing the originals.
GM> You may have to create a customized program for your keyboard
GM> driver...
No, I do not think that's the right way. :))
- mfg *Claus* -
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