Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!ames!lll-winken!uunet!yale!spolsky-joel From: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Determining Keyboard Codes Message-ID: <55038@yale-celray.yale.UUCP> Date: 28 Mar 89 17:51:17 GMT References: <1244@naucse.UUCP> Sender: root@yale.UUCP Reply-To: spolsky-joel@CS.YALE.EDU (Joel Spolsky) Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept, New Haven CT 06520-2158 Lines: 21 In article <1244@naucse.UUCP> rrw@naucse.UUCP (Robert Wier) writes: > > 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. In kermit you can issue the function "show key" to find out the scan code and bindings for any bindable key. If you have 2.31 or later you can actually bind more keys and combinations then BIOS would ordinarily consider distinct. It's in the manual, by the way. +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ | Joel Spolsky | bitnet: spolsky@yalecs.bitnet uucp: ...!yale!spolsky | | | internet: spolsky@cs.yale.edu voicenet: 203-436-1483 | +----------------+----------------------------------------------------------+ #include