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From: apratt@atari.UUCP (Allan Pratt)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: TOS quirk with ALT key
Message-ID: <2792@atari.UUCP>
Date: 2 Jan 91 22:15:07 GMT
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Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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dbrooks@penge.osf.org (David Brooks) writes:
>...the keys in the top row, between "1" and
>"=", get 0x76 arbitrarily added to their scancodes before being
>returned to me.

That's not arbitrary; it's part of the VDI spec, which is really just a
codification of the behavior of the IBM PC keyboard/scancode
characteristics.  I don't know WHY it is, but the keys from 1 to = are
defined to return scan codes 0x78 to 0x83, and that's just the way it
is.

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