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From: "Salvador Eduardo Tropea (SET)" <salvador AT natacha DOT inti DOT edu DOT ar>
To: Shawn Hargreaves <Shawn AT talula DOT demon DOT co DOT uk>, djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Date: Mon, 23 Dec 1996 15:47:34 +0000
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Subject: Re: RHIDE, Setting keyboard for UK

Hi Shawn, you replied to ratbag:

> ratbag writes:
> >Would some kind person please tell me how to go about assigning a UK
> >keyboard to work wth RHIDE (The new one out last week).
> 
> I'm confused as to why this would be neccessary - I have a UK keyboard,
I don't know much about UK kbds but the german ones have the Y and Z 
swapped (if I take as reference an US kbd ;-)

> and it works just fine with Rhide. I imagine Rhide uses DOS functions
No.

> for keyboard access, so all you need to do is configure your machine
> properly and it should work. I'm no DOS guru, but the relevant lines
> from my system seem to be:
Nope, we are using BIOS.

  As we are using BIOS some things can fail in a non-US keyboard, not 
the common characters like A, but CTRL+A.
  DOS hooks the BIOS so if you configure DOS you'll get A when you 
press A but DOS doesn't traslate the SCAN codes for the keys so here 
appears the problem. I sent to Robert (some weeks ago) a package to 
configure the RHIDE keyboard (because is the editor (mine editor) the 
problem).
  Talking about keyboards and specially to Shawn, I have a modified 
version of the Allegro keyboard files that handles the following:

1) Num-Lock
2) Caps-Lock
3) The keyboard leds

  I made that for my editor but Robert refused to use interrupts, so 
I didn't follow with that. May be you are interesed in the code.

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