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- kbd_fix
- Command
-
- Purpose: Installs new keyboard interrupt routines that operate with a 159
- character buffer rather than PC-DOS's normal 15 character buffer.
- Format: kbd_fix
- (Usually done once per startup, in autoexec.bat file)
- Type: External
- Remarks: The Ultimate source of information for this command is John
- Socha's article in the November 1983 Softtalk, p. 117.
- John includes an assembly language listing of these routines. A summation
- of the article: DOS (all versions, it's built into ROM BIOS) includes
- a 15 character buffer for keyboard input. Giving DOS the kbd_fix
- command installs new keyboard interrupt handlers that use a 159 character
- buffer. In addition, these new interrupt routines recognize one special
- keyboard command: pressing control-alt clears the keyboard buffer.
- Kbd_fix will attach itself to DOS and use about 700 bytes of memory.
- (Randy Day, 11/10/83)
-