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- A U T O K E Y
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- D E S C R I P T I O N A N D
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- A U T H O R I N F O R M A T I O N
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- Last updated: September, 1992
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- This file includes sample descriptions which you may use to describe the
- AutoKey package.
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- Disk Vendors and Distributors please refer to the VENDOR.DOC text file.
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- Program Information:
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- File Name(s) for BBSs:
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- For consistency and to help users locate the files, please use the following
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- If you separate the programs and documentation into separate archive files,
- please use the following names (both must be posted):
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- AutoK20.LZH AutoKey version 2.0 (ASP).
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- AutoKDOC.LZH AutoKey documentation, version 2.0.
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- If the programs and documentation are contained within a single archive file,
- please use the following name:
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- AutoK20.LZH AutoKey version 2.0 (ASP).
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- If you compress the program and documents using some other file compression
- method, then please use the name "AutoK20" with the appropriate extension
- (ZIP, PAK, ARC, ZOO, etc.).
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- Keywords:
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- SAVE BACKUP AUTOSAVE MACRO AUTOKEY WINDOWS UTILITIES
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- Category:
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- Utilities.
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- Program Name, Category, Keywords:
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- [AutoKey, utility, SAVE BACKUP AUTOSAVE MACRO AUTOKEY WINDOWS UTILITIES]
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- Short Description:
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- AutoKey is a Windows program which periodically sends a single keystroke or
- menu command to other programs. Usually, this command is File/Save. Once you
- set it up, AutoKey is nearly invisible, but every now and then you'll see the
- program you're using write its data to disk. AutoKey keeps track of your
- keyboard and mouse activity as well as the passage of time. There are
- numerous streamlining features to keep AutoKey out of your way while it's
- backing you up.
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- Long Description:
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- Now you can LAUGH at power failures, snicker at UAE's. Or take the buffoon
- who kicked your power cord to coffee, without "accidentally" dumping a cup of
- steamin' jo in the klutz's lap.
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- And even when USER ERROR rears its ugly head, potentially destroying four
- hours of your otherwise brilliant work, you can breathe a sigh of relief...
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- Because you had the foresight to run AutoKey.
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- Windows applications are becoming increasingly powerful, and let even
- neophytes do wonderful things with information. But the more complex a
- system, the more opportunities for things to go wrong, and Windows is no
- exception. Even with recent improvements in reliability, some unfortunate
- Windows users will rarely see the day when their system doesn't hang up. And
- of course no system hangs until immediately BEFORE you were going to save your
- data, or AFTER you've completed an excruciatingly painstaking addition to your
- work.
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- AutoKey protects the data in every Windows application you're working with, by
- periodically instructing the other applications to save their data. Even if
- you're frequently switching between applications, AutoKey will protect the
- data in ALL your Windows applications.
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- To use AutoKey, you just tell it the applications you wish to protect and
- when, minimize it, and forget it. At the pre-defined intervals, AutoKey
- examines the Windows desktop, and if any of the protected applications are
- active, sends the keystrokes you request to all the applications, just as if
- you typed the keys yourself. AutoKey even protects the data in multiple
- running copies of a program.
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- You can even tell AutoKey to send non-saving keystrokes, causing an
- application to perform special functions at the intervals you set up. For
- example, if you're a CIA analyst, tell AutoKey to tell your news reader to
- download the latest news from CryptoNet every hour, then automatically search
- for such terms as "Japanese Ministry of Trade" or "terrorist attack on New
- York City." Or as a stockbroker you might want to get quotes for Ice Cubes,
- Ltd. automatically throughout the day. And if you're a weather caster in
- Tornado Alley, you can have AutoKey instruct your analysis program to download
- satellite radar images of your area every hour.
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- Significant features of AutoKey include:
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- * Keystroke control by way of menu commands or through keyboard
- accelerators.
- * Execution of nested menu commands, up to five levels of nesting.
- * Time, keystroke or mouse click intervals.
- * The ability to "screen out" applications if they contain untitled
- works.
- * A handy notification of pending keystrokes or menu commands.
- * A defer keystroke, which allows you to intercept and skip a pending
- keystroke/menu command.
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- Quotes from Reviews, Articles and Users:
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- [This space intentionally left blank, because there have been none, yet!]
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- Registration Information:
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- To register, print REGISTER.DOC, fill it out, and send it and $20 (US dollars)
- to:
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- Simple Software
- P.O. Box 1465
- Salt Lake City, UT 84110-1465 (USA)
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- Registered users receive:
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- * The latest version of AutoKey (without the registration reminders).
- * A nice printed user manual.
- * Free updates for a year (at least one).
- * Technical support for as long as AutoKey is in use.
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- For complete user registration information please refer to the REGISTER.DOC
- text file.
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- Author/Publisher Information:
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- Simple Software is a tiny software company owned and operated by Lynn Wallace.
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- At Simple Software our approach is to offer a well-crafted, useful product.
- Price and profit are secondary considerations. The most important part of
- Simple Software's universe is the user of our program. Without the user, the
- program is, well, useless.
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- AutoKey is Simple Software's first product, but the author has over a decade
- of experience creating leading-edge software. More interesting software can be
- expected, as the ideas present themselves!
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- Please feel free to contact me (Lynn Wallace) at any time if you have any
- questions, comments or suggestions. I can be reached by mail at the following
- address:
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- Lynn Wallace
- Simple Software
- PO Box 1465
- Salt Lake City, UT 84110-1465
- U.S.A.
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- I can also be reached by voice or electronically as follows:
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- Voice: (801) 322-4040
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- CompuServe: 70242,101
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- Internet: 70242,101@COMPUSERVE.COM
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