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From: pajerek@kadsma.kadsm (Don Pajerek)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Reading PC Keyboard
Message-ID: <116@kadsma.kadsm>
Date: 26 Apr 88 22:02:47 GMT
References: <622@ubu.warwick.UUCP>
Reply-To: pajerek@kadsma.UUCP (Don Pajerek)
Organization: Eastman Kodak, Dept. 47, Rochester NY
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Keywords: ibm keyboard

In article <622@ubu.warwick.UUCP> pssw@diamond.UUCP (P S Swanson) writes:
>Can anybody enlighten me as to which port must be read to detect any key(s)
>being depressed on an IBM PC, and give an assembly language example ?

	in	al,60H

will give you the scan code of the last key pressed. note that both
'make' and 'break' codes are available using this method.