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From: goer@sophist.uucp (Richard Goerwitz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Bellcore mgr
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Date: 7 Feb 90 13:58:43 GMT
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I've been fooling with the Bellcore mgr, trying to make it work with-
out a mouse.  So far I seem to be missing something.  The critical
routine is do_buckey, which checks to see if the following character
is a "buckey" character (i.e. one which has its eighth bit on).  This
is determined by masking out all but the last two bits of a character
read from the keyboard (c is obviously an unsigned char).

	if( !(c & 0200) )
		return 0;	/* Not a buckey character. */

This is all fine, but I just wonder how you get characters with the
eighth bit set from the keyboard under Xenix.  If you must know, I
came originally from the MS-DOS world, and the ins and outs of how
Xenix handles these sorts of things is still in the process of be-
coming clear to me.  Any help would be much appreciated.

I do not know whether the answer should be obvious or not.


   -Richard L. Goerwitz              goer%sophist@uchicago.bitnet
   goer@sophist.uchicago.edu         rutgers!oddjob!gide!sophist!goer