Date: Sun, 23 Apr 2000 09:42:40 +0200 (IST)
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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To: Chewbaklava <kalit AT ctel DOT net>
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Subject: Re: Keyboard Handler
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On Thu, 20 Apr 2000, Chewbaklava wrote:

> I was making a keybord handler.  I got it installed and it reads from the
> keyboard.  But there is one problem, when revieving bytes from the keyboard,
> the handler spits out 2 42's before the number of the key.

42 decimal or 42 hex?

Do you see this for every key, or just for some?  If the latter, what
keys are those?

> I assume (I
> don;t even know if this is an actual term, I just heard it somewhere) that
> these are extended keys.

Extended keys are prefixed with E0h, not with 42.