Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/3/84; site sesame.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!epsilon!zeta!sabre!petrus!bellcore!decvax!genrad!panda!talcott!sesame!slerner From: slerner@sesame.UUCP (Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner) Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: Re: Scroll lock on Tandy 1000 and IBM PC Message-ID: <285@sesame.UUCP> Date: Tue, 20-Aug-85 05:59:27 EDT Article-I.D.: sesame.285 Posted: Tue Aug 20 05:59:27 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 19:06:11 EDT References: <694@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Lotus Development Corp Lines: 27 > > ScrollLock is a very special key on the PC keyboard. It's so special, MS-DOS > doesn't know it exists. The result is that striking the key normally DOES > NOTHING. Some programs, like SideKick, pay attention to it, though. > > At a more technical (BIOS) level, Scroll Lock acts like Num Lock and Caps Lock: The above is quite correct, that the scroll lock is esentialy a shift state key. (Unlike another posting that was getting break and ctrl-num/hold mixed in) I do not have my manuals handy, but the tandy-1000 does have some strange key-combo that will emulate the scroll lock key, setting the proper bit at 40:17hex. If you can't find it in you manual, mail me a note and i'll look it up. -- Opinions expressed are public domain, and do not belong to Lotus Development Corp. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Simcha-Yitzchak Lerner {genrad|ihnp4|ima}!wjh12!talcott!sesame!slerner {cbosgd|harvard}!talcott!sesame!slerner slerner%sesame@harvard.ARPA