the inline assembler

[llee]

In article <e7sivt$emq$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, dennis luehring says...
>
>llee schrieb:
>> In article <e7sa56$3qb$1 at digitaldaemon.com>, Frits van Bommel says...
>>> lee wrote:
>>>> I'm trying to call dos interrupts using the inline assembler.
>>>> Unfortunately I keep getting the following message during compilation:
>>>> end of instruction
>>>> The code I used is listed below. Any help is welcome.
>>>> asm
>>>> {
>>>> mov AH, interrupt_code ;
>>>> int 21H                ;
>>>> ..
>>>> }
>>>> where interrupt_code is of type long. 
>>> I don't believe '21H' is a valid integer in D.
>>> This should compile:
>>>
>>> void main()
>>> {
>>>     long interrupt_code;
>>>     asm
>>>     {
>>>         mov AH, interrupt_code ;
>>>         int 0x21               ;
>>>     }
>>> }
>>>
>> The same error results.
>
>long interrupt_code is much larger than the 8bit ah register
>
>btw: what are you doing? plain old dos 21h is decprecated since win95
>most 16bit interrupt (int 0x10h, int 0x13...) procs don't work under win32
>
>what do you want from dos? what are you trying todo?
>
>ciao dennis
I'm trying to read keyboard events through dos services.
If it's possible to access these services on the win32 platform let me know.