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KEYBUF 2.0
(c) 1992-1993 by
Vincenzo "Enzo" Romano
The use of this program implies the following disclaim.
THIS PROGRAM IS ABSOLUTELY FREE OF ANY CHARGE FOR SINGLE USERS.
FOR COMMERCIAL USES, PLEASE CONTACT THE AUTHOR.
THE AUTHOR WILL NOT BE RESPONSIBLE OF ANY KIND OF DAMAGE DUED
TO THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM.
THE USER WILL USE THIS PROGRAM AT HIS OWN RISK.
KeyBuf is program to expand the keyboard buffer used by BIOS to
store the unread keystrokes. The standard buffer is 32 bytes long
and can contain up to 16 keystrokes (each one is a 2 bytes code).
If you use to type a command or any other keyboard input before
the BIOS (and thus the DOS) is ready to read it maybe you run out
of the buffer space. The result is a long acoustic signal and the
loss of the extra characters you typed.
If, say, you're running something like "CHKDSK /F" on your 200+
megabytes hard disk and want to delete che *.CHK files away from
the root directory and then want to use the "COMPRESS" tool, with
a 16 characters buffer you have to wait for the CHKDSK completion
before you can type the commands "DEL \*.CHK" and "COMPRESS".
But with a bigger buffer you can type ahead anything you already
know it will need. But, be carefull! Computers exactly do what
you ask them for. Nothing more, nothing less.
If you press ^C (CTRL-C) or ^Break (CTRL-PAUSE), the program
will be stopped and the keys typed ahead will be lost.
KeyBuf is NOT a resident program. It doesn't steal CPU time. It
simply search for a suitable memory block, tells the BIOS where
the new buffer is located and then dies. The only limitation is
that the memory block used as buffer must be in lower memory
(below 1030:000) because of a BIOS limitation.
For more details, please read the program sources and comments.
For bugs and suggestions, feel free to contact me via e-mail at
this address:
music@MILES.cnuce.cnr.it
And if you want to make me happy, please send to me a postcard
of your city at this address:
Vincenzo Romano
Via A. Omodeo, 3
I-56124 Pisa ITALY