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- KTIME-XT.COM and KTIME-AT.COM are utilities which should have a wide variety
- of applications. KTIME-XT is for XT and PC and compatibles. KTIME-AT is for
- AT, Wyse 386 and compatibles. KTIME allows you to completely turn off your
- keyboard for any number of seconds from 1 to 3600 (1 hour). I will be using
- it at the beginning of a batch file to prevent user interference while setting
- up and executing an application. Here is an example of usage...
- (On an XT) KTIME-XT 130 this command would disable the keyboard for 130
- seconds, or 2 minutes 10 seconds. If this was a line in a batch file, the
- subsequent commands in the batch file would be executed as normal (assuming
- no user keyboard input is required for 130 seconds). KTIME kills the keyboard
- including Cntrl-C Break and CNTRL-ALT-DEL. Keypresses made on the dead keybd.
- do not accumulate. KTIME installs a new INT 8 routine. INT 8 (timer tick) is
- executed 18.2 times per second. KTIME counts each execution and when the sum
- equals the given time times 18.2 the keyboard is enabled. KTIME is RAM
- resident and remains in RAM (occupying about 500 bytes) even after the kbd. is
- re-enabled, although the counting routine is short circuited after kbd. enable.
- Execution of KTIME without a time parameter will cause a default 2 minute
- keyboard disablement. The parameter must be integer seconds. Invalid param.
- will default to 2 minute disablement. Avoid executing KTIME more than once.
- The timing is pretty accurate, but KTIME does not access the system clock so
- don't expect it to be as accurate as the system clock.
-