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|    JJ to Tom Del Rosso    |
|    Re: Keyboard input without pause    |
|    22 Oct 18 18:00:26    |
      From: jj4public@vfemail.net              On Sun, 21 Oct 2018 11:31:17 -0400, Tom Del Rosso wrote:       > 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.              Hmm... indeed.              However, if I run the batch under COMMAND.COM rather than CMD.EXE, it works       fine. So, my guess is a problem on the exit code part. i.e. passing the       program exit code from DOS system to Windows system.              --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05        * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)    |
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