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U2-03: Keyboard, Mouse, Joystick
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1149 Keyboard Macros, Shorthand Small Programs Disk
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1Finger 1.0
Sawada, Dr. Masaaki
$5-$10
allows one-finger operation of the Ctrl-Alt-Shift keys as well as the swapping
of those keys and adding a beep for each. TSR: 2k.
The Controller 1.27 (CTV127) 01-94 CD
Rich Giles
$29
is a script-driven TSR (32K) which can be used to run any DOS based program.
Ctsynd 1.0
Sawada, Dr. Masaaki
$10-$20)
is a keyboard macro program that allows words, letters, commands, etc, to be
assigned to any two keys or two-key combinations, such as <Alt-N>+<Ctrl-F> or
<F1>+<Q>.
DDKey 2.01
Dibble, David M. ASP
$18
is an excellent keyboard macro utility that can use as little as 7k. You
can either manually type in a macro or let it record keystrokes as you
type them in your application. It lets you pop up a screen which lists
the macros and offers a menu of functions from which you can choose,
including editing existing and newly-created macros, an alarm function,
an ASCII table display, and the ability to dump the current text screen
to a file.
DDKEY Macro Compiler (DMC)
Cowell, Richard
$0
converts DDKey macro files into text files and converts formatted text
files into DDKey macro files. This makes it possible to edit macros with
any text editor. Asm source included.
DKEY
is small keyboard macro program. It's not as fancy as Superkey, but it
only takes about 1/20th the memory. The authors are no longer at the address
provided in the documentation.
Grafx
Ford, Nelson ASP
$?
contains two graphics programs for drawing boxes. GRAFX.KEY is to be used with
Newkey and GRAFX.MAC is to be used with Superkey.
Key-Filt 1.0
Drayson, Geoff
$0
is a simple resident program that disables certain Keyboard input: Ctrl-C,
Ctrl-Break, Ctrl-Alt-Del, PrtSc, Ctrl-Alt-Grey-Plus and Ctrl-Alt-Grey-Minus.
Assembler source code is included.
KeySaver 1.0 (KEYSVR)
HFK Software ASP
$20
[February 1994 CD]
is a 6K TSR that automatically types into an application (eg: word
processor) canned text from specified files. This saves repetitive typing
and prevents typing errors.
Letter Code Size Increaser (LCSI)
LCS
$10-$15
increases the number of key combinations available to other resident programs by
31 to 62 keys on the standard 83 key keyboard. The extra keys are generated by
pressing down on both the Ctrl key and the left or the right shift keys along
with another key.
Playback 2.4 (PLAYBAC)
RSE Inc. ASP
$35
[Feb. 1994 CD]
captures your keystrokes, including the delay between keystrokes, and
lets you play them back in a variety of ways. This could be used for
self-running demos of programs, for unattended operation of the computer
or simply as a super-macro program. You can also initiate a playback by
pressing a specified "hot key".
Network support is provided, and instructions are included for operation
within the Windows environment. Keystroke files can also be edited, and
you can start and stop a recording from within a batch file.
ScroLck 1.0
Sawada, Dr. Masaaki
$10-$20
lets you redefine the keyboard and toggle the new values on and off by pressing
the Scroll-Lock key. This program ingeniously takes advantage of the fact that
the status of Scroll-Lock is ignored by most other programs. You can press
Scroll-Lock and have the regular keys start putting out Greek or other special
characters. You can even redefine them to take the place of function keys that
are hard to remember or to pop up TSR's.
Short Hand Expander 1.0 (SHRTHND)
TABS Software
$25
is a 17k TSR that saves keystrokes by expanding predefined abbreviations into
longer words or phrases as you type. New abbreviations may be added as you go.
Smacs
you redefine your keyboard, save the current screen to an ASCII file, print
concurrently in DOS 3.0 or greater, and load and save files of keyboard macros
from within other applications.
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END OF SMALL PROGRAMS DISK #1149
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12091 Redefine Keys in DOS Small Programs Disk
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The advantage (or disadvantage, depending on your point of view) of these
utilities is that they normally don't affect the keyboard in other programs.
Ansi&2K
Ketcham, Bob
$?
improves on ANSI.SYS by providing a larger keyboard reassignment buffer.
Ansikey 2.1
Williams, Dave ASP
$0
is a file to be used with ANSI.SYS to redefine the keyboard. Also included are a
documentation file that explains all about ANSI.SYS and an improvement on
ANSI.SYS by the name of ZANSI.SYS.
AppMap 1.1
Vitt, Mark
$0
allows you to define which keys perform a specific function so that the same
key combination will perform the same operation in different programs.
DOS Command Synonym Translator 1.0 (SYNONYM)
CodeCrafters
$10
is a (1.5k+) TSR which translates abbreviated commands on the DOS command line
into the fully spelled out commands. For example, DA could be used to generate
DIR A:/W. It also provides a facility for chaining several DOS commands on a
single command line using a user definable separator character. The program
tested fine under DV with PCED and other TSR's loaded.
DynakeyS (DS-MS)
Sawada, Dr. Masaaki
$10-$20
lets you pop up a menu to redefine a key for another key. The menu also allows
you to send up to 20 characters of codes to one of your serial ports. (res:1k)
FK20
allows you to assign strings up to 24 characters in length to each of the
function keys, so you can give an entire command or file name with a single
keypress.
Func21
Weisz, Jim
$?
enables the use of eighteen of the function keys that PC-DOS doesn't use. The
important difference between this and other keyboard definers (such as
ANSI.SYS), is that this one only intercepts function keys during 'command line
input' (DOS function 0xA). The result is that editors and other programs
which look for function keys as single keystrokes don't get the new definition
instead.
Hitter
Farmer, B. A.
$?
performs several functions: redefines function keys 1-10 for most commonly
used DOS commands, toggles between monochrome and colour monitor by using
control + right/left shift key, modifies the disk base parameters to speed up
diskette, stays resident in memory and intercepts the keyboard interrupt.
PRMPT
Seidl, Gerald
$?
is a batch file that will redefine the function keys for DOS and display
their new functions in a highlighted bar at the top of the screen while in DOS.
Since the chances are that you will not want the same commands that this file
sets up, the real value of PRMPT.BAT is that you can easily modify the file to
your own needs. (If you use a word processor, remember to save the file in ASCII
format.)
Prompt2
tells how to redefine keys with the PROMPT command.
Redefine 2.14 (REDEF)
Swift-Ware
$10
is a 65K TSR that allows you to assign a string of up to 60 characters to a
single combination of the ALT/function keys and a number key. These can be
used to store long path names, often repeated commands, etc. Definitions can
be saved and reloaded, or easily created on the fly. Other options include a
file viewer, pop-up calendar, notepad, disk formatter, and more.
Re-Definest (REDEFIN)
Ryan, Eric
$?
will allow you to redefine up to 37 different keys to represent another string
of characters. You must have ANSI or NANSI.SYS in your CONFIG.SYS file (see
your DOS manual). If you don't already use a keyboard macro program such as
SuperKey, you will find this utility saves you a lot of keystrokes while in DOS
by letting you assign common DOS commands to different keys. Because it is easy
to use, you can quickly assign keystrokes to keys "on the fly".
TigerKey (TIGERKE)
Hungry Tiger Software
$0
makes it easy to assign DOS commands to your function keys via ANSI