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From: andre@cv.ruu.nl (Andre Koster)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Numlock on when booting... How?
Message-ID: <1991May23.180911.16393@cv.ruu.nl>
Date: 23 May 91 18:09:11 GMT
References: <1991May16.105232.20917@cv.ruu.nl> <1991May21.180122.19414@qiclab.scn.rain.com> <1991May22.181020.1993@uwasa.fi>
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In <1991May22.181020.1993@uwasa.fi> ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) writes:

>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.

I'm afraid I have to confirm that CAPS.EXE (as well as TURN.COM)
does not work on my PC. That is, not as I want to. Sure the
numlock is set for the numeric part of my keyboard, but 
also are my arrows etc. changed into numbers! That, of course, 
I do not want. And indeed, the numlock LED does not turn on, altough
that cannot bother me.

Nevertheless I hereby thank all those who've tried to help me.

Andre Koster

andre@cv.ruu.nl