From:	"Matthias Paul" <PAUL-MA AT reze-1 DOT rz DOT rwth-aachen DOT de>
Organization:	Rechenzentrum RWTH Aachen
To:	opendos AT delorie DOT com
Date:	Wed, 5 Jul 2000 18:31:55 +0100
Subject:	Re: Num Lock
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On Tue, 27 Jun 2000 Mike Sensney asked:

> I have DOS running on an old 486. During boot up Num Locks is set on and of
> course I'd really like it to be off. The BIOS doesn't have this as an
> option. Is there a utility for doing this for me?
I know this is already answered, but I was quite astonished about the 
responses... 

CONFIG.SYS NUMLOCK=ON,OFF is supported since Novell DOS 7 (and 
documented as far as I know), and in addition to this, DR-OpenDOS 
7.02+ introduced SCROLLOCK=ON,OFF and CAPSLOCK=ON,OFF (or was it 
SHIFTLOCK??? ;-). 

Comprehensive descriptions on these and many other new CONFIG.SYS 
directives not (or not fully) documented in DOSBOOK can be found 
in the README.TXT from IBMBIOA3.ZIP (my otherwise outdated OpenDOS 
7.02 ALPHA kernel, which has been the base for the later DR-OpenDOS 
7.02 & DR-DOS 7.02-7.03), and in NWDOSTIP.TXT (MPDOSTIP.ZIP), both 
freely available from my web-page (see signature).

Matthias

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