Date: Sun, 22 Feb 1998 15:39:05 -0800 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOSCMD: Ctrl-Enter doesn't work in Quicken Message-ID: <199802222339.PAA08809@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 29 Jan 1998 18:09:55 EST." <19980129180955.42881@ct.picker.com>
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Sorry about the lag here. 8( > I verified that when Ctrl-Enter is hit, the same keycode and scancode pair > are put in the DOSCMD BIOS keyboard buffer as in DOS 6.2 under DEBUG.EXE. > > I also verified the state of the keyboard shift flags in the DOSCMD BIOS seg. > > Oddly, Quicken just doesn't see Ctrl-Enter. "Enter" works, other Ctrl > sequences work, but not Ctrl-Enter. Is this ctrl-enter or ctrl-return? > I guess this might mean that Quicken is relying (at least partially) on > keyboard probes at the port level. (I notice that Quicken sets its own > INT9 KB intr hdlr when it fires up) Is doscmd delivering these interrupts? It's possible that Quicken (for some unknown reason) is keeping its own internal modifier state. (Does it have onscreen key prompts that change as you hit modifiers?) > Any tips on going after this one? Does someone possibly have a keyboard > patch waiting-in-the-wings I could try :-) Sorry, no. 8( > (Unfortunately, Ctrl-Enter is the only way to get out of the > split-transaction dialog in Quicken 5, so I'm motivated to dig into this) Yeep. Any more progress? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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