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From: "Jerry van Dijk" <jvandyk@ibm.net>
Subject: Re: Ada and Intel PC
Date: 1997/01/14
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organization: *JerryWare HQ*, Haarlem, Holland
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Date: 1997-01-14T00:00:00+00:00
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> I'm about to do Ada on 386 (or better) PCs and stuck already in very 
> basic things, namely console I/O.
> 
> Simply, I would like to know how to read the keyboard (including
function 
> keys F1..F12 and other special keys), and secondly how to write a
char 
> into the screen to a certain cursor position (column, row, display 
> attribute). There should be waiting and non-waiting keyboard read
calls. 

I don't know how ObjectAda handles it (despite best efforts, I have not
been able to buy one over here) but the EZ2LOAD GNAT package for
DOS comes with an CONIO library.

Jerry.