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ENCORE
Scott Chaney April 16, 1991 (Utilities)
Purpose: Records and plays back the keystroke sequences and intervening
pauses needed to execute repetitive sets of menu choices or commands.
Keystroke sequences can be saved and loaded as files or in memory, and
playback requires only a single keystroke.
Format: ENCORE [/S] [/L] [/U] [/Kn../Bn../P]
Remarks: ENCORE must initially be loaded (from the DOS command line or an
AUTOEXEC.BAT file) without the /S, /L, or /U switch parameters. It then
becomes a memory resident (TSR) utility that uses Ctrl-R to start and stop
recording a keystroke sequence and Ctrl-P to play it back. (Instructions for
changing the default hotkeys are given in the original article.) One beep is
sounded when a recording sequence is begun, and two beeps when it is
terminated. Unmodified, ENCORE requires 1 KB of RAM.
The default 100-keystroke buffer can be changed by loading ENCORE
with its optional /Kn switch, where n is the number of keystrokes to be saved.
Each buffered keystroke requires 5 bytes of storage.
Entering ENCORE with its optional /Bn parameter changes the "boost"
threshhold used to distinguish between normal typing and deliberate pauses
created to allow program loading, menu screen changes, etc. The default value
of n is 18.2, the number of clock ticks equal to one second. Keystrokes
entered more rapidly than one per second will be speeded up on playback;
longer pauses will be preserved in their entirety. Entering /B0 causes all
keystrokes to be played back at the speed at which they were recorded. The
optional /P parameter allows changes made with the /K and /B switches to be
made permanent.
Recorded keystroke sequences can be saved to a file with the command
ENCORE /S filename. The filename supports a path (so ENCORE and its keyfiles
can be kept in the same subdirectory), but no extension may be supplied. The
command ENCORE /L filename, again without extension, is used to load a saved
keyfile. Subject to usual TSR limitations, the program can be uninstalled by
entering the command ENCORE /U. The /S, /L, and /U parameters can only be
invoked after ENCORE has become resident.