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[Ted L. Glenn]

In article <1991Mar6.165835.10237 at cs.mcgill.ca>, storm at cs.mcgill.ca (Marc WANDSCHNEIDER) writes:
>     Then is there ANY way that I can have sort of "HOT KEYS" ie the user
> just hits a  key, and then the computer recognizes that a key has been hit
> and the key is sent to some variable...?  (Using MSDOS...)
> 
>     Thanks for the help.

     I remember seeing a book in the university library about how one
could use Turbo Pascal to write programs that could set a BIOS or some
other interupt to be called when certain keys were pressed. I should
think that there are C books that deal with this topic.


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