Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!ralf From: ralf@b.gp.cs.cmu.edu (Ralf Brown) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Why CTRL-2 and CTRL-6 and not others??? Keywords: Control codes, keyboard scan codes, PC Tools Macro Editor Message-ID: <4790@pt.cs.cmu.edu> Date: 21 Apr 89 03:47:08 GMT References: <1673@blake.acs.washington.edu> Organization: Carnegie-Mellon University, CS/RI Lines: 15 In article <1673@blake.acs.washington.edu> djo7613@blake.acs.washington.edu (Dick O'Connor) writes: }While playing with macro-building in PC Tools Deluxe's Macro Editor, }I tried all of the -number combinations using the top row number }keys and could only assign CTRL-2 and CTRL-6 as hot-keys. It didn't }seem to recognize the other eight potential CTRL-digit combinations. These are the only ^number keys recognized by the BIOS, because they are really ctrl-@ (ASCII NUL) and ctrl-caret (ASCII 30), but there are no such characters as ctrl-ampersand, for example. PC-Tools probably accepts only keystrokes which the BIOS recognizes. -- {harvard,uunet,ucbvax}!b.gp.cs.cmu.edu!ralf -=-=- AT&T: (412)268-3053 (school) ARPA: RALF@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU |"Tolerance means excusing the mistakes others make. FIDO: Ralf Brown at 129/31 | Tact means not noticing them." --Arthur Schnitzler BITnet: RALF%B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU@CMUCCVMA -=-=- DISCLAIMER? I claimed something? --