Date: Mon, 29 Sep 1997 13:14:27 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Peter Palotas <blizzar AT hem1 DOT passagen DOT se>
cc: djgpp AT delorie DOT com
Subject: Re: BIOS call from interrupt?
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On Mon, 29 Sep 1997, Peter Palotas wrote:

> Would it be okay to call ex. _bios_keybrd(_KEYBRD_READ), from within an
> interrupt handler?

I think it is OK.  I'm not aware of any interrupt-related problems with 
the BIOS keyboard interrupt 16h.

However, since you are inside the hardware keyboard interrupt handler, it 
might be easier to just read the scan code.