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From: cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca (Stephen M. Dunn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turning off NumLock through software
Keywords: NumLock
Message-ID: <255AF5E9.24227@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca>
Date: 10 Nov 89 16:23:05 GMT
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In article <3932@ur-cc.UUCP> bwbe_c50@uhura.cc.rochester.edu (Brent W. Benson) writes:
$A friend of mine has a Clone IBM compatible.  It is a 12mhz 80286.
$When it is turned on, during the initialization process (i.e. memory
$check, etc.) the NumLock light goes on.
$While this is not the end of the world, is there some way to turn
$it back off in the autoexec.bat file.  Or better yet, is there some
$way to prevent it happening in the first place.  

   If you have the 101-key (enhanced) keyboard, your num lock light will go
on when you boot.  Period.

   What you can do is put a short program into your autoexec.bat which
turns it off again (or you can take the low-tech solution - press the
num lock key).

   There is a program called Numoff that turns num lock off.  I don't
have a copy, but I can tell you how it works.  There is a word somewhere
in low memory that says which of the lock keys are on, and which of the
shift keys are depressed.  You just set or reset the appropriate bit in
this word to turn the various locks on or off.  Peter Norton's _Programmer's
Guide to the IBM PC_ has information on this word of memory.

-- 
Stephen M. Dunn                               cs4g6ag@maccs.dcss.mcmaster.ca
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