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From: Nicolas Pitre <nico@CAM.ORG>
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On Tue, 17 Nov 1998, Dave Mielke wrote:

> Here you have a bit of a contradiction in goals. To get the ALT keys to work,
> DOSEMU needs to be in console mode. You actually have to be in a bit more than
> console mode, i.e. you have to instruct DOSEMU to use a new virtual console,
> and to monitor the keyboard in raw mode.

I use dosemu with raw keyboard enabled and video = console disabled and
everything work, except BRLTTY's cursor routing and cut'n paste functions.
This way screen review programs can read the screen and al alt
key combinations are available directly.  


Nicolas Pitre, B. ing.
nico@cam.org