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From: prc@maxim.ERBE.SE (Robert Claeson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Enhanced Keyboard Scan Codes
Message-ID: <458@maxim.ERBE.SE>
Date: 17 Jan 89 10:15:32 GMT
References: <23cf3ecd@ralf>
Organization: ERBE DATA AB
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In article <23cf3ecd@ralf>, Ralf.Brown@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU writes:
> In article <914@starfish.Convergent.COM>, jerry@starfish.Convergent.COM (Gerald Hawkins) writes:

> }What I wonder is why programs designed to read scan codes (SHOWKEYS for
> }example) do not return a value for F11 and F12.  Sometime I'll have to
> }investigate.

> Because you have to use INT 16h/AH=10h,11h,12h to read the new keys.  The old
> calls with AH=00h,01h,02h *throw*out* the new keystrokes.

What happens when I use these calls with an old keyboard?
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