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- Installing KYBD.BUF is automatic when you type INSTALL {drive}:
- This is covered in README.1ST.
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- KYBD.BUF has five switches that may be set at bootup time (if you don't like
- the default values) by putting them on the line DEVICE=KYBD.BUF in
- CONFIG.SYS. BE SURE to leave a blank space after "... .BUF", then put
- a "/", the first letter of the command, and the number to which you
- wish to set the parameter. For example, the line:
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- DEVICE=KYBD.BUF /b35/R3/V1/W1
- ^ blank space
-
- will set the keystroke buffer size to 35 (/b35, default is /b48), place
- the buffer window on line 3 of the display (/r3, default is /r1), opens
- the window as soon as KYBD.BUF is loaded (/v1, this is the default),
- and attaches the code and storage for a warm boot (the default is NO
- warm boot).
-
- * /V0 closes the view-port to the keystroke buffer on bootup. The
- view-port may be reopened by pressing KEYPAD 5, V after PKII.MOD has
- been loaded (unless the /N1 switch has been set, see below).
-
- NOTE: If you are a registered user, and the view-port causes "snow" to appear
- on your screen, ask for KYBD.SNO, a version of KYBD.BUF that suppresses "snow".
-
- * /Bn, n = 16 to 255, sets the maximum number of keystrokes held in the
- extended keystroke buffer
-
- * /Rn, n = 1 to 25, tells KYBD.BUF what line on the display you want
- the WINDOW to appear.
-
- * /N1 disables the view-port and warm boot, and replaces that code and
- storage with the buffer contents. This saves 112 bytes (382 bytes if
- warm boot was attached).
-
- * /W1 attaches the code and storage necessary for SCROLL LOCK, F1 to
- perform a warm boot. Normally, it is not attached.
-
- IF you have chosen to use the view-port and attach the warm boot code and
- storage, KYBD.BUF uses only 398 bytes, plus twice whatever length the
- buffer is. KYBD.BUF will operate just fine whether POWERKIT II is
- loaded or not (but then, its fast warm boot routine would have to be
- accessed by a far jump to offset 0Eh in KYBD.BUF's segment).
-
- 101/102 KEY ENHANCED KEYBOARDS: If your "enhanced" keyboard needs a special
- driver (KEYB.COM or KEYB??.COM) for it to work properly, you will need
- to use FIXKEYB.COM, before your keyboard will work with KYBD.BUF. The
- last section of the README.1ST file describes what must be done.
-
- NOTE: The luxury of KYBD.BUF's extended keystroke buffer may have to be fore-
- gone in some cases. Unfortunately, some programmers think the only
- buffer the BIOS (Basic Input Output System) supports is the small buf-
- fer at 40h:1Eh (XyWrite is a notorious example). Their programs use
- this buffer exclusively, thus ignoring the buffer whose dimensions the
- BIOS reads at 40h:80h. You will know when you encounter such a program
- and POWERKIT II's buffer is set to more than 15 keystrokes, because
- your machine will hang and not even KEYPAD 5-ESC (described in
- PKII.DOC, page 6) will save you, and POWER-KIT II's fast warm boot
- (SCROLL LOCK-F1) will just put you back in the same fix.
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