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From: tmoran@acm.org
Subject: Re: Reading the keyboard buffer
Date: 2000/11/12
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>I used the get_immediate (char, boolean).
>
>When I press a function key though, it doesn't grab it...
  What compiler and OS are you using?  Gnat 3.13p under Win95 returns
the function keys in PC standard fashion as an ascii.nul character
followed immediately by a second character indicating the particular
function key.  e.g. F1 returns ascii.nul then ';'.