[comp.sys.ibm.pc] F11 & F12

kiely@lownlab.harvard.edu (James P. Kiely) (09/30/88)

BIOS function 16H seems to have been designed for the old style
keyboards and is unable to read the function keys F11 and F12.

How do I access the entire extended keyboard?

Please respond via email.  I will summarize to the net.  Thanks.
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everett@hpcvlx.HP.COM (Everett Kaser) (10/03/88)

I don't have the appropriate docs at hand, but the BIOS INT 16h call has
been extended with (at least) functions 10h, 11h, and 12h, which correspond
to functions 0, 1, and 2, but give additional codes which differentiate
between the numeric keypad and the new cursor keypads.  I suppose you would
also get the F11 and F12 keycodes.

Everett Kaser
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Hewlett-Packard Co.
Corvallis, OR