Path: utzoo!attcan!telly!nebulus!druid!darcy
From: darcy@druid.uucp (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: 'Sys Req' - key.
Keywords: What is it for?
Message-ID: <1989Dec8.121735.3957@druid.uucp>
Date: 8 Dec 89 12:17:35 GMT
References: <189@nmtvax.nmt.edu> <1989Dec5.181045.10621@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: darcy@druid.UUCP (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)
Organization: D'Arcy Cain Consulting, West Hill, Ontario
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In article <1989Dec5.181045.10621@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> kds10773@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken S.) writes:
>The SysReq key can be polled using entry point 0x85 of int 0x15 (system

Careful.  You don't poll the SysReq key.  See my response to the previous 
poster.  The hardware actually makes the "call" to this entry point.  The
programmer is in the position of capturing that call.
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