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Top Document: comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ part 2/5 Previous Document: Next Document: See reader questions & answers on this topic! - Help others by sharing your knowledge Microsoft has its own keyboard extender available on the MS-DOS supplemental disks for MS-DOS 6.22 which can be found at: <ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/peropsys/msdos/public/supplmnt/> Stan Brown, the former list maintainer, tested only one of the many available device drivers that do this, namely BUF160, which extends the keyboard buffer to 160 characters. It performed flawlessly for two years with MS-DOS 5 and Windows 3.1. It's downloadable as: <http://www.simtel.net/pub/pd/47186.html> <ftp://garbo.uwasa.fi/pc/keyboard/> User Contributions: 1 Ben in Seattle ⚠ Jun 2, 2026 @ 4:16 pm Another solution is to use a parallel port loopback plug. It makes the PC think there is a printer attached. The benefit of this is it doesn't require anticipating the problem with ANSI.SYS escape sequences nor does it make you wait half an hour for the "Abort, Retry, Ignore?" prompt, as some versions of DOS do. Comment about this article, ask questions, or add new information about this topic:Top Document: comp.os.msdos.programmer FAQ part 2/5 Previous Document: Next Document: Part1 - Part2 - Part3 - Part4 - Part5 - Single Page [ Usenet FAQs | Web FAQs | Documents | RFC Index ] Send corrections/additions to the FAQ Maintainer: jeffrey@carlyle.org (Jeffrey Carlyle)
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