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  1.           QUICKEYS                                   Leo Forrest
  2.           ______________________________________________________
  3.  
  4.           Purpose:  Accelerates the "typematic" repeat rate of a
  5.                     PC or XT keyboard.  A built-in subprogram is
  6.                     included that instantly clears the keyboard
  7.                     buffer to prevent sending excess accumulated
  8.                     keystrokes to the display.
  9.  
  10.           Format:   QUICKEYS     (loads memory-resident program)
  11.                     <Alt-Shift>         (clears keyboard buffer)
  12.  
  13.           Remarks:  While the keystroke repetition rate of the PC
  14.                     AT is adjustable, that of the XT and the PC
  15.                     is fixed at approximately nine keystrokes per
  16.                     second.  When QUICKEYS is loaded (normally
  17.                     through your AUTOEXEC.BAT file), the
  18.                     repetition speed is approximately doubled.
  19.                     Successive loadings of QUICKEYS (each
  20.                     requires about 672 bytes of memory) can be
  21.                     used to increase the keyboard speed still
  22.                     further, if desired.
  23.  
  24.                     Notes:
  25.  
  26.                     1.   QUICKEYS is a memory-resident program
  27.                          that inserts itself both into the timer
  28.                          tick and keyboard interrupt routines.
  29.                          It is not compatible with some other
  30.                          memory-resident software and with
  31.                          programs that appropriate the keyboard
  32.                          interrupts.
  33.