Date: Thu, 21 May 1998 16:50:42 +0300 (IDT)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
To: Mr A Appleyard <MCLSSAA2 AT fs2 DOT mt DOT umist DOT ac DOT uk>
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Subject: Re: BUG in Gnu C++ (djgpp v2) mouse access under Windows 95: PS
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On Thu, 21 May 1998, Mr A Appleyard wrote:

>   (3) I can't easily change AAEMACS.EXE or SPATRL.EXE to polling the mouse (=
> repeatedly asking for the mouse's pointer coordinates and the states of its
> buttons), as I found that (at least under DOS 6.22) polling the mouse in a
> tight loop makes DOS or its keyboard handler ignore the `special characters'
> (ALT combinations, F1 to F12, grey keys, and similar) from code 128 upwards.

Please post the shortest program that shows this.  GNU Emacs polls the 
mouse, but can nevertheless read all the keys generated by the MF-II 
(i.e. 101-key) keyboards, so this is possible, at least in principle.

You seem to imply that your programs read keybord via DOS.  If this is 
indeed true, it's different from Emacs which uses the BIOS.