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From: rrw@naucse.UUCP (Robert Wier)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Determining Keyboard Codes
Message-ID: <1244@naucse.UUCP>
Date: 28 Mar 89 07:07:35 GMT
Organization: Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, AZ
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 I'm using an AT clone with a "BTC 5060" keyboard.  I wonder
 if there is a program which will tell me what keycodes are 
 being sent for any particular key when it is depressed?

 I'd like to know this so that I can make up a key map file for
 KERMIT which emulates a VT100 keyboard as closely as possible.
 For example, the top row of my keypad has (left to right) keys
 labeled Esc - Num Lock - Scroll Lock/Break - Sys Req/Reset, which
 I believe is fairly standard.  Are the keys like Num Lock hardwired
 into the system, or do they generate a code which can be remapped
 into an actual character sequence which can be sent to a host
 computer (in this case, a VAX)?  

 Thanks for any advice --


   - Bob Wier                                College of Engineering
  Flagstaff, Arizona                      Northern Arizona University
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