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====== Int 21H, AH=01H ======

===== Version =====

1 and higher

===== Brief =====

READ CHARACTER FROM STANDARD INPUT, WITH ECHO

===== Family API =====

[[en:docs:fapi:DosRead]]

===== Input =====

  AH = 01h

===== Return =====

  AL = character read

===== Macro =====

<code asm>
INCLUDE DOS.INC

READ_KBD_AND_ECHO
</code>

===== Notes =====

 ^C / ^Break are checked, and INT 23 executed if read

 ^P toggles the DOS-internal echo-to-printer flag

 ^Z is not interpreted, thus not causing an EOF if input is redirected
character is echoed to standard output
standard input is always the keyboard and standard output the screen
under DOS 1.x, but they may be redirected under DOS 2+

===== See also =====

AH=[[en:docs:dos:api:int21:06|06h]],AH=[[en:docs:dos:api:int21:07|07h]],AH=[[en:docs:dos:api:int21:08|08h]],AH=[[en:docs:dos:api:int21:0a|0Ah]]

===== Note =====

Text based on [[http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~ralf/files.html|Ralf Brown Interrupt List Release 61]]

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