Help with reading the keyboard

[Niranjan]

Greetings,

   I assume this is the correct newsgroup to which I shold post this 
   question. I would like some help or pointers with the following question.

   How does one read the keyboard and find the scan code for a certain
   key. For example when the F1 key is pressed how do I get the scan code
   for that particular key.

   Please be kind enough to email me any suggestions etc...

   Thanks is advance

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Niranjan Perera             Computer Science Department, University of Georgia.
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