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From: chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: control-P = PrtSc on PC/AT's
Message-ID: <245@fornax.uucp>
Date: Thu, 19-Mar-87 01:07:51 EST
Article-I.D.: fornax.245
Posted: Thu Mar 19 01:07:51 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Mar-87 04:51:05 EST
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Organization: School of Computing Science, SFU, Burnaby, B.C. Canada
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> In article <243@fornax.uucp> chapman@fornax.uucp (John Chapman) writes:
                               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > We have a terminal driver which maps certain keys to our functions, and
> > we want to use control-P. Apparently DOS maps control-P to PrtSc, and
> > if you don't have a PRN device, this goes into a slow, abnoxious loop
> > telling you it can't write to the PRN device. I can't find this key
> > mapping (^P) anywhere in the DOS documentation. Does anyone out there
> > know how to disable this key mapping?
> > 
> 
> It's quite simple to disable the DOS interpretation of ^P and PrtSc
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Just aminor point but I didn't write the text attributed to me above.
I did post a reply to the original article but the above isn't it.

John Chapman
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