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- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!news.funet.fi!hydra!klaava!wirzeniu
- From: wirzeniu@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Lars Wirzenius)
- Subject: Re: 'Special' keys not working in DOS Emulator
- Message-ID: <1992Dec12.163416.10088@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Keywords: keyboard, emulator, dos, linux
- Organization: University of Helsinki
- References: <1992Dec11.172517.25575@midway.uchicago.edu> <1992Dec12.022250.10656@wam.umd.edu>
- Date: Sat, 12 Dec 1992 16:34:16 GMT
- Lines: 12
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- joel@wam.umd.edu (Joel M. Hoffman) writes:
- >Normally, function keys etc. generate escape sequences. For the DOS
- >emulator to work, it has to bypass the normal keybaord driver in the
- >kernel, and get the keys directly.
-
- Why not make the DOS emulator convert the escape sequences to whatever
- it is the DOS programs expect to be getting? This way, it might even
- be possible to use the emulator from a terminal...
-
- --
- Lars.Wirzenius@helsinki.fi (finger wirzeniu@klaava.helsinki.fi)
- MS-DOS, you can't live with it, you can live without it.
-