Re: INT14 waiting for character

[Stas Sergeev <stsp@aknet.ru>]

Hello.

Donald Arseneau wrote:
> Unfortunately, while what you say rings true
> (I could find the keyboard wait in bios.S) doing anything about it 
> is vastly non-trivial to me.
Please have a look into a rombios.c
of the Bochs. That subfunction is
14 lines of a C code only and is
absolutely straight-forward (although
you'll have to do it in asm).

> Isn't this (wait for character on
> serial port) required for lots of DOS programs?
No idea, but I have none of those for
example. The programs I have, are either
using fossil, or the direct access. int14
have too many limitations so it is not
in a wide usage I think.

> Is anyone with
> knowledge of the internals interested in implementing it? I hope
> so.
At least you can try to motivate them.
Submit an RFE on SF, attach the example
program that uses that functionality (and
therefore doesn't work under dosemu) etc.
I don't think developers will be motivated
to do that without you trying hard to
motivate them, but who knows:)