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- From: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca (Steve Frampton)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.programmer
- Subject: Strange problems with Borland C++ 3.0
- Message-ID: <NPBTqB1w165w@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 02:35:22 GMT
- Reply-To: frampton@vicuna.ocunix.on.ca
- Followup-To: poster
- Organization: Vicuna Systems, Kingston, ON (613) 547-5066
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- Hi everyone:
-
- I have three questions I am hoping someone will be able to enlighten me
- on.
-
- (1) Everybody knows about the "sticky shift" problem with the Borland
- editor. Thing is, I've tried all the suggestions (IGNOREA20 and
- UNUSUAL8042 as switches to QEMM, as well as a device driver called
- KBDFIX.SYS that apparently works wonders with WordPerfect) but the
- problem remains. Has anyone come up with a fix for this yet?
-
- (2) Here's a neat bug: Y'know how you can hold down the ALT key and type
- a 3-digit ASCII code to generate a special character? Great for line
- drawing, etc., isn't it! However, try typing ALT-224 and your computer
- will freeze up!! Cute bug, Borland, I lost over an hour of work the
- first time that happened! How about timed-backups for the next version?
- :-)
-
- (3) Has anybody been able to get ungetch() to work? I am using the DOS
- int 0x21 function to check keyboard status (ah=0x0b on entry, al=0xff on
- exit if key is ready) and to read in a key (ah=0x07 on entry, al=char on
- exit) and yet pushing a key to the buffer with ungetch() doesn't seem to
- work! I believe I have gotten it to work with getch() but I really have
- a need to use these DOS int 0x21 functions. Help!
-
- Well, that's about it. Any information you can provide on any of these
- problems would be most appreciated!
-
- Please respond via e-mail as I don't have read-access to this group. I
- will be more than happy to follow-up with a summary, as these problems
- are probably oft-encountered and are certainly interesting.
-
- Thanks in advance!
-
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