[alt.msdos.programmer] Writing the...

bobmon@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu (RAMontante) (06/05/90)

djb@wjh12.UUCP (David J. Birnbaum) <482@wjh12.harvard.edu> :
-About a week ago I posted an inquiry about the relative merits of checking
-the keyboard shift status by reading 0:0417 directly or using the available
-int 16h function.  Here is the summary I promised:
-
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-Use Int 16.
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-Nobody could think of any good reason for refusing to use the BIOS
-services. 


This makes me wonder about an issue I just got done dealing with, namely
software forcing of the scrolllock & numlock values.  Is there a BIOS
means of doing this, or must I diddle 0000:0417 to control these?

Or am I a terrible person for *wanting* to change these values?  :-)