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Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 14:13:06 -0400
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
From: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
Subject: Re: BIOS call from interrupt?
Cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
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At 13.14 1997-09-29 +0200, you wrote:
>
>On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Peter Palotas wrote:
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>> Would it be okay to call ex. _bios_keybrd(_KEYBRD_READ), from within an
>> interrupt handler?
>
>I think it is OK.  I'm not aware of any interrupt-related problems with 
>the BIOS keyboard interrupt 16h.
>
>However, since you are inside the hardware keyboard interrupt handler, it 
>might be easier to just read the scan code.

Well, it's getting the Ascii code which is the problem in that case. But if
you read it from BIOS I believe it returns the real ascii-code as it
should, or is it only DOS function which does this? (According to COUNTRY
and KEYB settings)?


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