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- This archive contains the following executable files:
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- KBDR COM 333 6-15-88 7:00a
- KBDL COM 332 6-15-88 7:03a
- KBDLESC COM 410 6-15-88 7:16a
- KBDESC COM 301 6-15-88 7:18a
- KBD102 COM 332 6-16-88 7:10a
- NUMLOCK COM 58 6-15-88 7:22a
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- The KBD* functions are TSRs (Terminate and Stay Resident utilities) which
- correct what some users consider to be keyboard deficiencies in various
- keyboards. These TSRs take very little space, especially when loaded in the
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file before any SET commands.
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- These programs are intended only for PC/AT or AT-clone systems!
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- KBDR.COM maps the CapsLock key into an additional Ctrl key, unless the right
- shift key is simultaneously depressed. This is useful for 101-key keyboard
- users accustomed to virtually any other terminal keyboard.
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- KBDL.COM does the same mapping, but requires the use of the left shift key.
- This gives 84-key keyboard users a right-hand ctrl key just like those lucky
- 101-key keyboard users get!
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- KBDESC.COM exchanges the Esc and `~ keys, putting the escape key in a more
- standard (and certainly more reachable) position on the 84 key keyboards.
- Users of 101 key keyboards might find this slightly more convenient than the
- original positioning.
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- KBDLESC.COM combines the mapping of KBDL.COM and KBDESC.COM. 101 key users
- that want to combine KBDESC and KBDR can run them both!
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- KBD102.COM is for use on the Northgate Omnikey/102 keyboard. After exchanging
- the Ctrl and Capslock keys in hardware, this TSR is used to make the new
- Caps Lock key act like a third Alt key (shifted it is Caps Lock). This puts
- an Alt key in the same position it is in the 84 key keyboard.
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- The final program, NUMLOCK.COM, turns off NUMLOCK. It is not a TSR.
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- All of these programs were written by me, using the CFORTH Forth Compiler,
- and are placed in public domain for the benefit of other PC users who are
- frustrated with these keyboard designs.
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- I am not supplying sources, the programs are small enough that DEBUG can be
- used to reverse-engineer them.
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- Tom Almy
- toma@tekgvs.TEK.COM
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