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From: consp06@bingsung.cc.binghamton.edu (Robert Konigsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: 2 problems
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Date: 9 Mar 90 18:31:00 GMT
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All - ( Please forgive duplicate posting on ALT.MSDOS.PROGRAMMER:

1)  I am working on a game in Turbo Pascal 5.5.  I would like to set and
read the keyboard rates so that I can speed the keyboard.  I want to
eliminate the wait before a key's 'repeat-mode' steps in.  As well, I
want to restore the original values of whatever settings are needed.
Anyone out there on this one?

2) I have seend the messages going back and forth about starting a
secondary process, but I am still stuck as to how to actually start a
secondary process.  I would like to keep it as generic as possible,
because I want to be able to spawn to 4DOS, let alone COMMAND.COM in
whatever subdirectory the file exists.  All I know is that in TURBO PASCAL 5.5,

uses DOS;

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exec(getenv('COMSPEC'),'WHAT GOES HERE?');

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Is this right?  I doubt it because it isn't working.. what should I do?
Also, is it important to know if I have enough memory to spawn this
secondary command process?  How would I do that?  What other side
effects am I not thinking about?

                                                -Rob Konigsberg