## Physical Device Driver Reference

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### KBD_READCHAR (74h) - Remarks

This request is used to obtain one or more character data records from the Keyboard Input buffer (KIB) for the session of the currently active process . Notice that if shift report is on, then the CharData Record might not contain a character; instead, it could contain a shift state change in the Shift Status field.

This function returns an UNKNOWN_COMMAND error if the caller is in the Presentation Manager session.