Arrow-key constants about cpm65 HOT 2 OPEN

Those will conflict with control keys --- I ran into this on the ADM3a, which uses ^H, ^J, ^K, ^L and it's actually really annoying that you can't use this keys for anything else. Consider WordStar which uses ^K a lot.

High-bit-set codes are more appropriate here IMO because in the largely 7-bit world of CP/M we know these can't overlap with either printable or control characters. I was vaguely thinking of using the BBC Micro ones, $88/$89/$8a/$8b for this.

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I thought of conflicting with control keys as a good thing, as you can fake the arrow keys if you are using a computer or terminal without them, but I see your point of conflicting with other uses for these key combinations as there are no standard expected functions in most cases (as there are on most unix-like systems).

I agree that using high-bit-set codes is a cleaner way to implement this, letting the bios code handle any odd cases when needed.

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