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From: swimmer@fbihh.UUCP (Morton Swimmer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted,alt.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: keyboard BIOS routines in C
Keywords: keyboard BIOS C IBM-AT
Message-ID: <347@fbihh.UUCP>
Date: 2 Mar 90 15:56:24 GMT
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Organization: University of Hamburg, FB Informatik, W-Germany
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buck@siswat.UUCP (A. Lester Buck) writes:

>I have an application that needs to process an IBM AT keyboard at the scan
>code level, but must run on various machines, not necessarily Intel CPUs.  I
>was using the BIOS routines, but I must use an extended keyboard with many extra
>keys, some of which do not map into the XT scan codes as done by the AT
>BIOS, so it appears that no key is pressed.  Does anyone know of public
>domain routines in C for doing the keyboard interrupt functions of the AT
>BIOS?  Pointers to good sources of information would also be much
>appreciated.
I really dont know what you are talking about! If the CPU is 'not
necessarily Intel' then I assume you are not talking about normal
PC/AT's. That's fine, but then if you are not talking IBM compatible
you will never find any _general_ keyboard scanning routines as every
machine is different (and most use terminals).
If, however, you just need to be able to scan AT keyboards on an XT,
from what I remember, the two keyboards are quite different, and that
may not be solved in software alone. Try Peter Norton's book on the PC/AT.

Cheers, Morton