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From: drk@well.UUCP (Doug Kaye)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: How does SideKick work?
Message-ID: <233@well.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 25-Oct-85 21:42:14 EDT
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Posted: Fri Oct 25 21:42:14 1985
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Organization: Whole Earth Lectronic Link, Sausalito, CA
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Keywords: Sidekick, "Hot Keys"

We are about to embark upon a development project for a memory-resident
Terminal emulator. This emulator will be activated via so-called
Hot Keys, as is Sidekick. We are concerned that our emulator and
Sidekick be able to co exist, including the ability to invoke
SK on top of our emulator (and vice versa?). 

First of all, does anyone know which (or both) technique SK uses for
grabbing the keyboard?
	(1) Intercept keyboard interrupts, and/or
	(2) Intercept BIOS calls for keyboard.

If anyone is interested in giving us some pointers in memory-resident
"keyboard-takeover" applications, please contact me directly. On the
other hand, if you're interested in sharing your knowledge with others
why not start it out right here.             

	Doug Kaye
	Rational Data Systems, Inc.
	5725 Paradise Drive
	Corte Madera, CA 94925
	415/924-0840

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