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- Date: Thu, 16 Jul 87 14:43:26 SET
- From: WALDI%DHDIHEP1.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu
- Return-Receipt-To: WALDI@DHDIHEP1.BITNET
- Subject: KBEXT.UUE
-
- Date: 16 July 1987, 14:34:44 SET
- From: Dr. Roland Waldi phone (6221) 564334 WALDI at DHDIHEP1
- Inst. fuer Hochenergiephysik
- Schroederstr. 90
- D-6900 Heidelberg
- To: INFO-ATA at SCORE.ST
-
- Here is a program to extend the number of characters to be entered
- directly from the keyboard, using the ALT key.
- It should work with any program (e.g. editor), which
- does not use ALT-key-combinations on its own, for instance it
- works well with 1st-Word.
-
- Put KBEXT.PRG into the AUTO folder, or start it at any time from the
- desktop (but only once a session). It will establish a memory
- resident extension to the keyboard interrupt handler, which allows
- in addition to the NORMAL, SHIFT and CAPS-LOCK keyboard tables also
- ALT and ALT-SHIFT keyboard tables to be used, thus allowing about
- 128 additional characters to be entered directly from the keyboard
- pressing the ALT key.
-
- If you use KBEXT.PRG as it is, you will get the following keyboard
- layout (which is close to the US and GB
- version of the ATARI keyboard for the non-ALT keys):
-
- ---look into the KBEXT.TXT file for the details---
-
- There are two ways to change the keyboard assignment:
-
- 1. Change the keyboard tables in KBEXT.ASM and reassemble the
- program. You may have to change some control statements
- to fit your assembler's requirements, but the program is
- written to make changes even to MEGAMAX-C-Inline-Assembler
- not too hard (Use a minimal INIT.C here to save memory).
-
- 2. Use any PD keyboard-changing program, which allows to
- save a xxx.KBD file (check if it has 384 bytes), e.g.
- MOBZKEY.ACC, and make two files: DEFAULT.KBD for the
- normal keyboard assignment, and ALT.KBD with the
- unshifted and shifted ALT keyboard assignments (don't
- change the caps-lock table here, you will need CAPS LOCK
- to type into the file-selector box, since MOBZKEY changes
- the keyboard assignment immediately!).
-
- Put these two files into the \AUTO\ folder of your boot disk,
- if you use KBEXT at boot time, or into the \AUTO\ folder of
- your working disk containig KBEXT.PRG otherwise.
- From now on the tables in these datasets will be used, when KBEXT
- is run.
-
- A third possibility would be to make the files DEFAULT.KBD
- and ALT.KBD mentioned in (2)
- by a separate program, a file monitor etc.
- The format of a KBD file is simply 3 times 128 bytes of the
- keyboard tables (one byte per character)
- for normal, shifted and caps-lock. The key
- numbers (hexadecimal) are:
-
- 3B /3C /3D /3E /3F /40 /41 /42 /43 /44 /
-
- 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 29 0E 62 61 63 64 65 66
- 0F 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 1A 1B 53 52 48 47 67 68 69 4A
- [1D] 1E 1F 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 1C 2B 4B 50 4D 6A 6B 6C 4E
- [2A](60)2C 2D 2E 2F 30 31 32 33 34 35 [36] 6D 6E 6F 72
- [38] -------39------ [3A] 70 71
-
- Note that US keyboards don't have the key (60). You should assign
- 0 to all function keys, and to the positions that do not belong
- to any key. Key number redefinitions with the ALT key are
- automatically taken into account by KBEXT, after reading the ALT.KBD
- file.
-
- Enjoy, Roland Waldi, WALDI @ DHDIHEP1.BITNET
-
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