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From: davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Caps Lock Blues?
Message-ID: <12419@steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 25 Oct 88 20:08:33 GMT
References: <12440256984046@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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In article <12440256984046@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu> DAVIS-M@osu-20.ircc.ohio-state.edu (Mark Davis Univ Sys) writes:
| I am writing a text editor in Microsoft Quick Basic Version 4.0 and am having
| trouble determining when the caps-lock key is enabled and disabled.  Is this
| determined by some location in memory?????????????   If anyone can help I'd
| sure appreciate it.

There is a BIOS call to get this info. You can find it in memory, but
unless you also find a promise that it won't move why use it? I believe
that it's a subfunction of the call to read a key by scancode, but I
don't have a manual handy.
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	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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