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From: shane@inferno.peri.com (Shane Bouslough)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: Numlock on when booting... How?
Message-ID: <1991May23.145742.2949@inferno.peri.com>
Date: 23 May 91 14:57:42 GMT
References: <1991May21.180122.19414@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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From article <1991May21.180122.19414@qiclab.scn.rain.com>,
	leonard@qiclab.scn.rain.com (Leonard Erickson):
> andre@cv.ruu.nl (Andre Koster) 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?
> 
> With an AT, all you need to do is flip the numlock flag in the BIOS
> data area in low RAM. There are lots of programs for doing that, just
> stick one in your autoexec. 
> 

I wrote a short C program to diddle all the keyboard flags. If anyone
wants it, send me some mail.

> -- 
> Leonard Erickson			leonard@qiclab.uucp
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