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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!unislc!erc
  3. From: erc@unislc.uucp (Ed Carp)
  4. Subject: Re: keyboard problems - v.99
  5. X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.1 PL6]
  6. References: <1992Dec18.150306.29745@microware.com>
  7. Message-ID: <1992Dec19.071759.28945@unislc.uucp>
  8. Organization: Unisys Corporation SLC
  9. Date: Sat, 19 Dec 1992 07:17:59 GMT
  10. Lines: 15
  11.  
  12. Adam Goldberg (adam@microware.com) wrote:
  13.  
  14. : I hate to be contrary, but "The Programmer's PC Sourcebook" is good if
  15. : and only if you need to look up something simple.  For example, if you
  16. : wanted to directly read from the keyboard controller:
  17.  
  18. I respectfully disagree.  I've found stuff in the "Sourcebook" that I
  19. couldn't find anywhere else.  According to the author, that's what it's for.
  20. It's *not* designed to tell you how to *use* the information he gives you -
  21. you are assumed to be intelligent enough to know how to do that.  It just
  22. gives you raw data - not how to use it.  And in that regard it is superb.
  23. -- 
  24. Ed Carp            erc@apple.com, erc@saturn.upl.com    801/538-0177
  25.  
  26. Who and what would you be if you went beyond your deepest fears?
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