WILLIAM MCBRINE wrote to KEN HRYNCHUK on 02-08-04 12:30:

 KH> It's only a few bytes,

 WM> It's not quite that simple. First, note that there's no asm source in
 WM> MultiMail proper, and never will be. All keyboard and screen handling
 WM> is done via curses calls, so this would have to be patched on the level
 WM> of the curses library -- PDCurses, in this case.

 WM> The current keyboard check within PDCurses is a black box: a call to
 WM> kbhit(), which is a system library function. I don't even have the
 WM> source for the Turbo C++ version of kbhit(), as used in the XT port.
 WM> But I could try compiling that module of PDCurses to asm and see what I
 WM> can find... I'll think about it.

Thanks for the clarification, here, too, William. When I wrote the
above, I thought that implementation would be accomplished by just
adding a bit of inline asm to the source. Please don't start jumping
through the above hoops, on my account.

   Ken

 
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