From: byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) Subject: Re: DOSEMU - new-user-type questions (LONG) Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1993 12:12:09 GMT
In article <inu574f.748225429@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au>,
Mark Cosham <inu574f@lindblat.cc.monash.edu.au> wrote:
>s4ucwg@fnma.COM (Chip Gregory) writes:
>>3.) DOS edit doesn't work. It comes up. I can type stuff
>>in the edit area, but when I pull down a menu, a get a DOSEMU
>>debug message "ERROR: InsKeyboard could not put key in buffer".
>
>It is well known that dos's EDIT doesn't work - use another editor.
Well not exactly. As Howlin' Bob explained it to me that while EDIT uses
the normal BIOS keyboard driver for regular operations, it switches to
the INT 16 KB driver when it pops up a menu. Why? Nobody knows. Two ways
to get it to work:
1) Do the multiple keystrokes very quickly. That way it never gets to
the second driver.
2) Turn on the kbint option in the config file. However this is unstable
at last report.
I personally use a version of vi for DOS.
Later,
BAJ