Re: sending code to keyboard



In article <dc9sm1$5vc$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wemccaug@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx "Wendy E. McCaughrin" writes:

> Having trapped a caps-lock keypress, I now want to replace it with
> a blank (scan-code = 39h, key = 20h) to the keyboard. Int 16, AH=05
> should be able to accomplish this, but apprently does not (for me,
> anyway). Is there an alternative?
>
> Thanks!

You might have to forget the Int16/05 and stuff the keyboard
buffer directly -- search the usual DOS places for CAPSLOCK.ZIP
or CAPSCTRL.ZIP or something similar which has the asm source to
do what you want. I've something here (somewhere!) that I think
I found on garbo...

Pete
--
"We have not inherited the earth from our ancestors,
we have borrowed it from our descendants."
.



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