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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Can't get DOS to see new SWITCHAR
Keywords: switchar embarrasses Microsoft
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Date: 11 Apr 89 23:29:11 GMT
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In article <2068@bingvaxu.cc.binghamton.edu>
sullivan@phyllis.math.binghamton.edu (fred sullivan) writes:
>I recall reading that switchar has disappeared in BS/2 and I suspect it
>has in DOS 4.1.  Remember that this is NOT an official MS interrupt.

The switchar function used to be well-documented in the MS-DOS
manuals.  The switchar fiasco is embarrassing to Microsoft, though, so
it stopped describing it, and sort of pretends it doesn't exist.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
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