Subject: Re: bootblock suggestion: stop timeout on left-shift
To: None <M.Drochner@fz-juelich.de>
From: Charles M. Hannum <root@ihack.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/02/1999 14:24:31
Matthias Drochner <drochner@zel459.zel.kfa-juelich.de> writes:

> > And you do it without generating lots of
> > input chars,m like spacebar would.
> 
> That not - our code cleans the input buffer before user
> input is read.

Unfortunately, I've used BIOSes that cleared the input buffer before
the boot block ran, so pressing a `real' key ahead of time doesn't
work.