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From: raymund@sci.UUCP (Raymund Galvin)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: fast xtals in AT / Sidekick (really about Turbo Lightning)
Message-ID: <147@sci.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 6-Feb-86 22:05:11 EST
Article-I.D.: sci.147
Posted: Thu Feb  6 22:05:11 1986
Date-Received: Tue, 11-Feb-86 03:12:16 EST
References: <236@bnrmtv.UUCP> <645@steinmetz.UUCP>
Organization: Silicon Compilers, Inc., San Jose, CA
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Keywords: fast xtals, Sidekick

In article <645@steinmetz.UUCP>, davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP writes:
> .......
> Since Sidekick also craps up the operation of DOS functions 6 and 7 (direct
> read), I'm not too unhappy taking it out. 
> .......
> With Sidekick out, the values of ALL keys are passed back to the program.With
> Sidekick, ^P toggles the printer, ^S stops output, ^Q starts output, and ^C
> kills the program. Nobody ever used those keys in an editor, huh? 
> .......
> 	-bill davidsen
> 
I was bit by this FEATURE while writing a command line editor.  
Unfortunately, I thought it was a DOS bug.

Has anybody noticed similar problems with Borland's Turbo Lightning.
How many DOS calls does it break?

 - Ray Galvin