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   Tom Del Rosso to All   
   Re: Keyboard input without pause   
   21 Oct 18 11:31:17   
   
   From: fizzbintuesday@that-google-mail-domain.com   
      
   JJ wrote:   
   > On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 16:43:20 +0700, JJ wrote:   
   >>   
   >> Try below tool. It's a DEBUG script which will create KEYSTATE.COM.   
   >> The tool will report the state of the SHIFT, CRTL, and ALT keys in   
   >> its exit code (errorlevel).   
   >   
   > Sorry, forgot to mention that the tool is a DOS program. It will not   
   > work on 64-bit Windows without any emulator/virtualizator software   
   > such as DosBox or VirtualBox.   
      
   Yeah, I wrote one like that too, but it didn't even work in XP.  DOS   
   utils run in XP but the keyboard flags in the BIOS data area probably   
   never worked in any version of NT.   
      
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