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1FINGER (typing altM with 1 finger) version 1.0 (c) copy right 1989 All Rights Reserved Arthritis? Rheumatism? Simply can't press down on more than one key at a time? Confused by the transversion of control/shift keys on the 101 versus the 83 key keyboards? The control/shift/alt (CAS) keys with function keys on the 101 key keyboards stretch you fingers beyond their limits? This lets you press a control key, let go, then press another key to get control-x, etc. Also switches control/ alt/left-shift/right-shift keys to each other, option to display if Control/Alt/Shift (CAS) is pressed or not on the screen, option to beep if CAS pressed, option to turn itself OFF if needed and option to self-repoint itself back if another software overrides this. And a 1-finger method to type alt and numeric keypad values. The set up of this document is as follows: Explanations of various in-line command parameters. How 1FINGER works. Chat. Prompts and messages generated by 1FINGER. Disclaimer, contribution $/address, info for sysops and shareware distributors. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you simply type 1FINGER<ntr> then you get the help page built into this program for quick reference. The help page, as well as most of this program does not waste memory when this program becomes memory resident. In order to fit under even large softwares, this program is designed for maximum features with minimum system memory usage. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To run this, simply type 1FINGER RUN<ntr> and end it with an <ENTER> or <ntr> or <cr> or anything else you want to call the carriage return. All documents in my programs use the <ntr> format. This will run this program with the default settings: No display of CAS key typed, no key substitution, no beeping on CAS key typed and no override to make sure that this program has control of the keyboard. If key substitution is turned ON, then the left shift key acts as the control key and control key acts as the left shift key by default. You can type just the "R" in "RUN" to run 1FINGER.EXE and may be in capital "R" or small letter "r". Any other line command after the "RUN" parameter is ignored, so if you want to mix other line commands, they must be placed before this. -------------------------------------------------------------- 1FINGER.EXE itself and all programs hence forth lost the self-wipe feature, the ability to wipe any and all other memory resident programs loaded after this program. (unless I start hearing otherwise) -------------------------------------------------------------- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you find that there is an incompatibility between 1FINGER and the software which you are using, and the Override option does not cure it, then the program can be turned OFF, such that it will stop working. To do so, type 1FINGER OFF<ntr> The interrupt value itself is not switched out. This is a safety feature so that any other TSR utility which you loaded after 1FINGER and which also points to interrupt 9 will still work correctly. If you typed both "F"s in "OFF" as in 1FINGER OFF<ntr> then it is accepted as correct. If you typed only one "F" as in 1FINGER OF<ntr> then this is also acceptable. But if you typed something like 1FINGER OFC<ntr> This is accepted as "OF" and another option which begins with "C". 1FINGER will be turned OFF, but because there is no option which uses "C", 1FINGER will report this as an unknown error. In order to turn this program back ON, -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= 1FINGER ON<ntr> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Normally, if you type the Ctl, Alt or the Shift (CAS) keys, there is no indication that you typed these four (Left/Right shift) keys, nor which of the key type you typed. If you want to be told that you typed the CAS keys with a visual (as opposed to auditory) indicator type 1FINGER +D<ntr> to turn ON (the plus sign) Display of the letters "cas" on screen. The default will display the letters on the left top row of your screen, though you can change the location by using the Locate option. You will notice that typing <shift> twice without typing anything else inbetween will cause the letter "s" to appear and then to disappear, reflecting the correction feature to allow you to recover from accidentally typing the CAS keys by typing the same key over again. This feature works for all IBM machines we tried, but did not work on one locally (Montreal) made machine which claimed to use a Chinese Phoenix BIOS chip and a Hercules monochrome. There must be no space between the plus sign and the letter "D". This and all other options (except "RUN") may be used when you first run 1FINGER or after it has become memory resident. You can type the capital or small letter "D", of course. To turn OFF the Display, 1FINGER -D<ntr> The CAS display only works if you're in text mode. If your software are normally in graphic mode, then an auditory indication with a beeping is preferable. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you want auditory indication that you typed the CAS keys, then turn on the beeping by typing 1FINGER +B<ntr> This will cause a short beep to be heard whenever you type the CAS keys. There must be no space between the plus sign and the letter "B". This and all other options (except "RUN") may be used when you first run 1FINGER or after it has become memory resident. You can type the capital or small letter "B", of course. To turn OFF the Beeping, 1FINGER -B<ntr> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you switched from the regular 83/84 key keyboard to the enhanced 101/102 key keyboard, then you noticed that the location of the shift and the control keys on the left have been switched around. To allow you to substitute the keys back to the way it was set in the regular keyboard, 1FINGER +k<ntr> To turn on the key substitution option. The default will substitute the left shift key for the right shift key, but leaves the right shift key and the right control keys alone. The "K" option as described much below lets you substitute the CAS keys for each other. To turn this OFF, 1FINGER -K<ntr> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you ran other keyboard TSR utilities or if your software takes over the keyboard such that 1FINGER stops working, then you can try using the Override option to force 1FINGER to regain control by typing 1FINGER +O<ntr> Every time your software accesses files, 1FINGER will now check to see if it still has control or not. If 1FINGER has control, then nothing happens. If 1FINGER is no longer in control, then it will check to see if a macro key software has taken over the keyboard. If a macro key software took over control, then any attempt by 1FINGER to regain control of the keyboard will cause your computer system to lock up. To prevent this, if such was the case, then 1FINGER will not take over control. The presence of the macro key software is detected by checking to see if both interrupts 9 and 16h point to the same software. If you loaded still more hot key pop up utilities inbetween the macro software and this program, then 1FINGER will not be able to tell that a macro software was present and will cause your system to lock up. Any hot key pop up should be loaded after 1FINGER in this order: 1FINGER, Macro key software, hot key pop ups. If there was no macro software detected, then 1FINGER will regain control of the keyboard. If you experience a lock up with the +O option, then do not use it. To turn OFF the override at any time, 1FINGER -O<ntr> =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= To find out if 1FINGER is active and to see what options are presently active, use the enquiry option like this 1FINGER ?<ntr> If 1FINGER was in memory, then this will display the status report like this STATUS REPORT ON 1FINGER IN MEMORY ================================== |1FINGER is turned ·········· ON | |Display of CAS is ·········· OFF| |Key substitution is ········ OFF| |Beeping on typing key is ··· OFF| |Override of key interrupt is OFF| ================================== If 1FINGER was not in memory, then it will simply tell you so. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The display of CAS in text mode defaults to the left top row on your screen. If you want it displayed on the right top row on an 80 column screen, then type 1FINGER L78<ntr> This will cause the letter "c" of "cas" to display on column 78, the "a" on column 79 and the "s" on column 80. 1FINGER L80<ntr> will cause the letters to appear on row two, left column one on an 80 column screen. If you have 43/50 rows screen or other combinations of rows and columns, you can make the display appear on any other row and column by experimenting with this option. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= If you use the +K option to turn on the key substitution, the default is to swap the left shift for the left control key only. To substitute other combinations like the right shift key for the control-alt combination, 1FINGER KRCA<ntr. Note that there is no space between the "K", "R" and the "CA". The letter after "K" allowed are Control, Alt, Left-shift and Right-shift. They are followed by the same letters to which they will be substituted for. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Caps lock, Num lock and the Scroll lock will act the same as before. To enter the alt numeric keypad combinations such as alt "240", press down on the alt key, release it, type "240" on the numeric keypad, press down on the alt key again and then release it. If you press down on a two key combination such as control-A simultaneously, as you would do without 1FINGER, then it works as normally. But do not press down on the CAS keys and keep it pressed down. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= HOW 1FINGER.EXE WORKS The behavior of 1FINGER is modeled after a non-IBM compatible word processor, but the logic is straight forward. To run 1FINGER.EXE, type from the DOS prompt 1FINGER RUN<ntr> 1FINGER will check to see if it is already in memory or not. If 1FINGER is already in memory, then it will check to see what options you want changed for the copy of 1FINGER already in memory. If no option was used, then 1FINGER will tell you that it is already in memory and exits. If options such as "-D" or "+K KCL KLC" was present, then these options are set accordingly for the copy of 1FINGER already in memory. If not in memory, then it will set all optional parameters which may be set and become memory resident. Now the environment area which has the PATH data is no longer needed, so the area is deallocated and becomes memory resident. Now just type any of the CAS key, let go, then type any other inputtable key such as "g" or function key F1 or cursor up. The CAS key turns off if you type any inputtable key or if you type the same CAS key twice without typing any inputtable key inbetween. The only exception is when you type the alt numeric keypad combinations: If you press down on the alt key, let go, then type some numbers on the numeric keypad to your right, there is no key sent to your software until you press down on the alt key again. To type chr$(128) before (without 1FINGER), you pressed down on the alt key and while keeping it pressed down with your left hand, you typed "128" on the keypad with your right hand and then let go of the alt key. With 1FINGER present, press down on the alt key and then let go, type "128" on the keypad and let go, press down on the alt key and then let go. (alt->"128"->alt). If you first ran 1FINGER using a monochrome monitor and then switched to a color monitor, then 1FINGER's Display of CAS will seem to stop working. If you use the status option "1FINGER ?<ntr>" or any other option to change the options of 1FINGER already in memory, however, the 1FINGER which you run will also detect that you changed the monitor type and will inform the copy of 1FINGER in memory so that the display of CAS will work properly again. If your software has a DOS window or some other mode whereby you can get back to your software by typing "EXIT<ntr>" from the DOS prompt, then you can change the options from here. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= CHAT in a HAT Most of you are probably very proficient at only a few software packages on your computer. The usual explanation is that learning more is a hassle or boring. Here is one more: If you own too many softwares and update them often, you need an entire building just to store all the manuals! Why can't they make the manuals smaller or on diskettes? Sometime ago, I got a form to update to Lotus 1-2-3 version 3.0/2.2. I know that MY name is stuck on many registration cards (those sent back, and not left somewhere in a pile), but was 1-2-3 one of them? Yes, we do consultation, with expertise on many softwares and hardware combinations. I also know some stores which do the same thing for under $30/hour or even free (for a short time after you buy something), like connecting only two computers in a LAN, installing a hard disk in while keeping the power supply at 63.5 watts, trying to sell a built-in feature as an option, formatting a 40MB hard disk as a 32MB hard disk and wasting 8MB etc. A sucker every minute, huh. A few years ago, IBM took Hitachi and Fujitsu to court for cloning IBM computers. Now the same IBM is cloning H & F computers so that original (not IBM copy) softwares made by H & F will run on IBM (H & F clone) computers. May be IBM should look at a mirror before calling someone "ugly"? (U.S. business people have probably seen the ads IBM uses in Japan. The characters in the ads come from a movie series called "Otokowatsurai". They have "embarrassing" faces and is listed as the longest running series in the history of Earth to run the same theme over and over again: A funny faced man falls in love with a girl, girl doesn't, funny man leaves.) See how creative and original IBM portrays itself? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= PROMPTS AND MESSAGES =-=-= Unknown parameter on the command line =-=-= Something not recognized was found on the line when you ran the program. If you ran this program from a batch command file, error messages are followed by errorlevel = 1 so that you can have your batch file take appropriate actions. =-=-= You don't have to do it, 1FINGER.EXE is already in memory =-=-= You tried to run 1FINGER.EXE when a copy was already in memory. Since you did not specify options such as "-D" or "OFF", you were not trying to set or reset the options of 1FINGER already in memory so this is an error. All such error will set errorlevel = 1 when this program exits. =-=-= 1FINGER is now turned OFF =-=-= 1FINGER is no longer working. The keyboard interrupt 9 still points to 1FINGER but does not do anything. If you want to know what the status of 1FINGER features active at the moment are, use the status option parameter 1FINGER ?<ntr> =-=-= 1FINGER is now turned ON. Working. =-=-= 1FINGER is active again. =-=-= 1FINGER is not in memory. It cannot be turned ON/OFF =-=-= You used the ON/OFF options to try to turn 1FINGER ON/OFF, but 1FINGER was not in memory yet. =-=-= 1FINGER in memory is not compatible with this 1FINGER =-=-= 1FINGER is already in memory and you tried to set or reset options in it using another version of 1FINGER. Because the two are not compatible, this prevents the corruption of the one already in memory. =-=-= CAS display is ON =-=-= You typed "1FINGER +D<ntr>" to turn on display of Control, Alt and Shift keys. The default of displaying on the left top row can be changed using the Locate option. Since this only works in text mode on the first page, if you often work in graphic mode, you can use the "+B" option to beep instead. =-=-= CAS display is OFF =-=-= There is no more display of which CAS key is presently typed. =-=-= Beep turned ON =-=-= The "+B" option was used so that typing any of the CAS keys will now cause a short beep. The beep length is independent of the speed of your computer. =-=-= Beep turned OFF =-=-= There is no more beeping if you type the CAS keys. =-=-= Override for key interrupt is active =-=-= 1FINGER will now check to see if it still has control over the keyboard and will regain control if another software tries to take over control. =-=-= Override for key interrupt is turned OFF =-=-= 1FINGER will not try to regain control of the keyboard if another software takes over control. =-=-= Key substitution turned ON =-=-= If you type the CAS keys, they will be substituted for each other as needed. The default will swap the left control for the left shift keys, but leave the right shift and the right control (on 101/102 key keyboards) key alone. =-=-= Key substitution turned OFF =-=-= The CAS keys act as before. =-=-= Locate value for CAS is incorrect L1 - L78 is preferred range =-=-= You used the Locate option but followed it with no value or an exceedingly large value which does not make sense on any screen. =-=-= Location for CAS set. =-=-= The Locate option which you specified was accepted. =-=-= 1FINGER is not in memory. No status possible. =-=-= You typed "1FINGER ?" to get the status on 1FINGER in memory, but it was not yet in memory. =-=-= Unknown FROM key substitution type. Allowed types are Alt Control Left (shift) and Right (shift) =-=-= You used the "K" option to substitute CAS keys for each other, but you did not select correct choices. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= All products and names mentioned are Trademarks or Registered Trademarks of their respective corporations or companies. That includes my group or any other group's programs, of course. Some products may be protected by patent protection as well. All enclosed programs, documents and other files are provided AS IS, without any warranty, expressed or implied, including but not limited to fitness for a particular purpose. If you obtained this copy from myself or from large reliable sources such as CompuServe, there is no introduction of a computer virus by someone else. Otherwise, it's open. If you find that this does not work in your machine, we would like to know exactly what happened. With enough information, including where the cursor was, what appeared on screen, DOS version you used, which software etc, we may be able to make it work on your computer(s). A contribution of $5 US/Canadian is appreciated if you find this useful, or $10 for an improved one as it comes out. ($10 Cdn if you're in Canada and $10 U.S. for U.S & others,) Unless you specify otherwise, you will get a 5-1/4" 360 kb diskette. And if you only specify 3-1/2", it will be formatted as 360kb/720kb on a 720kb or a 1.44Mb drive. Your NEGATIVE criticisms are as welcome as your positive ones. NAME OF THE PROGRAM: 1FINGER.EXE ($5-$10) PURPOSE OF THIS PROGRAM: Lets you type control/alt/shift (CAS), let go, then type another key for the key combination. Can substitute the CAS keys for each other. Also displays status, beep, override and other features, including a special provision for alt numeric keypad combinations. my old forwarding address was Dr. Masaaki Sawada University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario Canada N2L 3G1 the new forwarding address, on August 1989 was Dr. Masaaki Sawada Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Sir M. B. Davis Jewish General Hospital, 3755 Chemin Cote Ste-Catherine, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3T 1E2 The institute name is given instead of home address(es) to lower the chances that any mail is delivered to a wrong address (a common occurrence). However, no institute time nor equipment was used to write this program or document. +-+-+-+-+-+-+-+ SWEATING OVER THE ADDRESSES? +-+-+-+-+-+-+ For a shorter, more permanent address, try: c/o Dr. Masaaki Sawada LCS P.O. 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