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From: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turning off NumLock through software
Keywords: NumLock
Message-ID: <6326@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Date: 10 Nov 89 15:56:13 GMT
References: <3932@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: toma@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM (Tom Almy)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton,  OR.
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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.  

A simple program to do this need only clear the next to most significant
bit (mask 40H) of memory location 40:17. The following program will do 
just that:

begin 644 numlock.com
MZ0@`.@$`````"@"\FO_'!@4!F/^]_O^)+@<!_.@%`+@`3,TA,=*.PB:@%P0P-
-Y"7?`#'2CL(FHA<$PQ<$T
``
end

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