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B50MENU Copyright 1991 John Navas II, All Rights Reserved.
B50MENU is made available for personal, non-commercial use only.
You are granted a limited license to use B50MENU, and to copy it and
distribute it, provided that no fee is charged for such copying and
distribution, and that it is ONLY distributed in its original,
unmodified state.
PURPOSE: B50MENU adds a hot-key, pop-up menu to Version 5.0 of BOYAN
Communications. When the <Alt> key is pressed at BOYAN's main
terminal screen, the pop-up menu appears in BOYAN's configured "help"
colors on the bottom line of the display where the status line
normally appears; the menu disappears and the status line is restored
when the <Alt> key is released or when another key is pressed to
complete a BOYAN command.
QUICK START: Simply copy B50MENU.EXE to the same directory as
BOYAN.COM, and execute B50MENU instead of BOYAN.
METHOD OF OPERATION: B50MENU.EXE will load and execute BOYAN.COM,
passing all command line arguments and returning BOYAN's return code.
B50MENU intercepts Keyboard BIOS Request interrupts to pop-up a help
menu when the <Alt> key is pressed at the main terminal screen. (The
main terminal screen is detected by specific Stack Pointer values.)
The colors used for the menu are determined by the "help" values
configured in BOYAN and saved in BOYAN.CNF. B50MENU requires about
14Kb of memory.
CUSTOMIZATION: B50MENU includes a default menu that matches BOYAN's
default alt-key configuration. To change the menu, create an ASCII
text file with the name B50MENU.CNF in the same directory as
B50MENU.EXE; B50MENU will read the first line from that file (which
should be 80 characters long) and substitute it for the default menu.