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- *** TRANSLATING YOUR KEYBOARD ***
- ( for the BIG BOARD 1)
-
- From "MICRO CORNUCOPIA" , The Journal of the BIG BOARD users, No.4, Feb.,1982.
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- This program translates the HEX value of the keyboard characters to
- whatever value you want. This is especially nice for defining single-keystroke
- codes such as ^C, etc. If you have a RESET key you may translate it to give a
- warm boot.
- The portion called TABLE is a 256 byte table that contains a value for
- each character entered at the keyboard. This will be particularly useful if you
- have a keyboard which has extra keys or ones that generate characters that you
- don't need.
- One disadvantage of this program is that it overlays the monitor so
- that it has to rerun each time the system is powered-up or reset. However
- this also makes it easy to do different translations for different software.
- You could use different tables for WORDSTAR, WORDMASTER, BASIC, etc.
- The program is executed bt simply entering it's name & when finished
- it returns to CP/M.
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- This routine makes it easy to customize keyboards to suit any software that
- needs any ^key sequences or even to give a totally different layout, since
- ANY key can be ANY code.
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