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From: fayne@tellab5.TELLABS.COM (Jeffrey Fayne)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Turning off NumLock through software
Keywords: NumLock
Message-ID: <1756@tellab5.TELLABS.COM>
Date: 13 Nov 89 13:59:04 GMT
References: <3932@ur-cc.UUCP>
Reply-To: fayne@tellab5.UUCP (Jeffrey Fayne)
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 The procedure for turning off the Num Lock key is as follows

		sub	ax,ax	; set ES to 0
		mov	es,ax
		mov	al,00100000B  ; bit 5 is num lock toggle
		or	es:[418h],al  ; directly change the status byte


	This code fragment when executed will TOGGLE (ie OFF --> ON, ON --> OFF)the Num Lock key.


				Jeff

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