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From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Increasing MS-DOS keyboard buffer size
Message-ID: <9076@steinmetz.steinmetz.UUCP>
Date: 18 Jan 88 19:10:00 GMT
References: <609@silver.bacs.indiana.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
Lines: 45

In article <609@silver.bacs.indiana.edu> creps@silver.UUCP (Steve Creps) writes:
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|    I'm looking for a patch to increase the size of the keyboard buffer
| in MS-DOS. For me, typeahead of about 16 characters just doesn't get it.

I don't know where DOS would put the extra buffer where it wouldn't
reduce the program memory available. This TSR has worked for me for
about five years now, and if it slows anything up I haven't noticed it.
Takes about 250 bytes, extends the buffer to 128 bytes. Note: DOS passes
the information to the programs in a 128 bytes buffer, so longer buffers
are only useful for multiple command lines.

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