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From: fischer@isaak.uucp (Frank Fischer)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: device driver under MS-Windows: Help needed
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Date: 7 Sep 89 08:50:07 GMT
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Reply-To: fischer@isaak.uucp (Frank Fischer)
Organization: ISA GmbH, Stuttgart, West-Germany
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Hello !

We are looking for a way controlling MS-Windows running on a PC
from the serial port (COM1) without original keyboard or mouse.
It must be possible to emulate some special keystrokes (for example Alt+F4)
with a single byte coming from the serial port and of course the 'normal'
ASCII keystrokes

The only proper and secure way seems to write a device driver.
But this is a difficult topic.

Anyone already solved that problem ?

Are there any really good books on the market about writing device
drivers on a PC-AT 286 ?

Please E-Mail.

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Thanks in advance

Frank Fischer
ISA GmbH  -  Informationssysteme fuer computerintegrierte Automatisierung
Azenbergstr. 35, D-7000 Stuttgart 1, West-Germany, Phone: +49-711/22769-0
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