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- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!fuug!mits!kennu
- From: kennu@mits.mdata.fi (Kenneth Falck)
- Subject: Re: Summary: How to flush keyboard buffer
- Message-ID: <1992Aug13.212849.6013@mits.mdata.fi>
- Keywords: Keyboard buffer, DOS
- Organization: Microdata Oy, Helsinki, Finland
- References: <3748@keele.keele.ac.uk> <1992Aug13.100340.26026@NCoast.ORG>
- Date: Thu, 13 Aug 1992 21:28:49 GMT
- Lines: 19
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- In article <1992Aug13.100340.26026@NCoast.ORG> brown@NCoast.ORG (Stan Brown) writes:
- >I can understand why keyboard input is so confusing. At a quick count I
- >see eight DOS and BIOS functions to take keystrokes from the buffer or
- >check the buffer for waiting keystrokes, or both. No wonder people get
- >confused!
-
- So, the obvious solution is for everyone to capture INT 9 and
- do your own keyboard functions based on hardware-port reads
- and writes :-)
-
- >--
- >Stan Brown, Oak Road Systems brown@Ncoast.ORG
- >
- >"Ingrate, n. One who receives a benefit from another, or is otherwise
- >an object of charity." --Ambrose Bierce
-
- --
- kennu@mits.mdata.fi
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