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[–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Open Watcom is a compiler for DOS. Every search engine will try ten ways to politely tell you that you obviously meant Wacom tablets, you illiterate goblin, and then shrug and direct you to the project's own single-page FAQ.

Asking questions about DOS itself is even worse. Say you want the scan codes for arrow keys. Then say it a hundred more times, with increasing specificity and occasional vulgarity, because you are getting nothing but "how to use a terminal window in Windows." Or at best, Ralph Brown's big fat interrupt list, rearranged into the most Geocities-ass jumble of pages, where you can easily look up what any specific hex code does, once you already know which code to look for.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Say you want the scan codes for arrow keys. Then say it a hundred more times, with increasing specificity and occasional vulgarity, because you are getting nothing but "how to use a terminal window in Windows."

I just tried "ASCII scan codes" or "DOS scan codes". Both gave me what you asked for in Google in the top three results, with the first one including tables that listed both ASCII values and scan codes for reference.