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From: ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Numlock on when booting... How?
Message-ID: <1991May22.181020.1993@uwasa.fi>
Date: 22 May 91 18:10:20 GMT
References: <1991May16.105232.20917@cv.ruu.nl> <1991May21.180122.19414@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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In article <1991May21.180122.19414@qiclab.scn.rain.com> leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson) writes:
>
>>I would like to see that my numlock on my keyboard is default 'on'
>>when I start up my pc. Can someone tell me how this can be achieved?
>
>Well, unless you have a 286, this is not even *possible*. PC & XT
>BIOS support for the keyboard does not include LEDs. Those came with
>the AT. There's no provision for sending anything *to* the keyboard
>except a "reset" code.

Now this is extremely strange.  I have a Zenith Z-181 laptop which
is most definitely an XT as far removed from 286 as you may wish to
get :-), and my caps.exe from /pc/ts/tsutld18.arc at garbo.uwasa.fi
archives works from the autoexec.bat without a hitch.  (LEDs are
surely not required for turning the numlock on or off).  But don't
take my word for it.  Try caps n+ on some XT.

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Prof. Timo Salmi
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