Date: Mon, 19 Jan 1998 11:48:42 +1030 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Randall Hopper <rhh@ct.picker.com> Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: DOSCMD: Misc questions Message-ID: <199801190118.LAA00398@word.smith.net.au> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 18 Jan 1998 18:31:39 CDT." <19980118183139.14729@ct.picker.com>
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> When DOSCMD starts up, it seems to need a key hit to continue loading DOS. > Is this normal? No. It may be due to something that you are loading in your CONFIG.SYS file which is unhappy with the quality of the low-level keyboard emulation. Have you tried working out what is hanging? Do you load the KEYB.SYS driver? (this last is known to cause problems). > Also, I see these messages when I check off the DOS option on my OS/BS > multiboot menu: > > Init: 0 > Unknown interrupt 15 function 4101 > Unknown interrupt 15 function 8766 You can look these up in Ralf Brown's Interrupt List. They are probably extended BIOS information requests. > Funny thing is that this key stays around in the keyboard buffer and is fed > to the next program requesting a key (HDM in my case, a hard disk manager > utility, which I start up from my autoexec.bat). Not actually very surprising; I expect that there is a program waiting for status from the keyboard. Hitting the key gets the status updated, but it never pulls the character itself. -- \\ 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. \\
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