G'Day David,
 
-=> Quoting David Nugent to Frank Adam <=-

 DN> Should be only two: XT keyboard and extended (101) keyboard.
There is a 122 keyboard, but i must admit i've never seen one. 
NTL it does exist and takes different values in _ah.
 
 > fetched on each call or placed in a static char on the
 > first call, but that still adds an if statement.

 DN> But examining a local variable doesn't involve a lot of 
 DN> overhead compared with poking around in lower memory.
 DN> static char ext_kbd = (char)-1;
I wouldn't have thought of casting that ? 

 DN> static int
 DN> getkbdchar(void)
 DN> {
 DN> if (ext_kbd == (char)-1)
Yeah, i did something similar.

 DN> .. or something similar, however it is that you call int 
 DN> 16h and at whatever address the extended keyboard byte is 
 DN> at (sorry, it's been years since I last dealt with this so 
 DN> I don't recall the details).
You didn't turn into a windoze programmer have you ? 
When will bnuW.com be released ?  ;-)

  L8r Frank (fadam{at}ozemail.com.au).
  
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