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From: davidsen@steinmetz.UUCP (Davidsen)
Newsgroups: net.micro.att,net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: MS DOS crashes on random keyboard input
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Date: Tue, 29-Apr-86 11:03:18 EDT
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The beep you hear when pressing the keys means that the keyboard buffer
is full. In DOS2.x I seem to recall that the keyboard reset wouldn't
work in that condition. Just for grins, the next time it hangs try
pressing either cntl-Q (to allow output again), or cntl-C to try to get
things unstuck. ESC may also be helpful. Hope some of this helps.
-- 
	-bill davidsen

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