Message-Id: <3.0.16.19970929165329.365f6834@hem1.passagen.se>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 16:53:34 -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 16.10 1997-09-29 +0200, you wrote:
>
>On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Peter Palotas wrote:
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>> 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)?
>
>If you need to support KEYB/COUNTRY, you will be better off using BIOS.  
>But it comes at a price: BIOS is slower.

BIOS is slower, but that wouldn't be all that relevant in ex. a GUI. But
how does using BIOS functions affect the portability of the program to
Linux? I can't imagine that being a great idea!?


-- Peter Palotas alias Blizzar -- blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se --
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