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- Installing KYBDBUFR.OBJ is covered in README.1ST.
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- KYBDBUFR.OBJ has four switches that may be set at bootup time (if you don't
- like the default values) by putting them on the line DEVICE=KYBDBUFR-
- .OBJ in CONFIG.SYS. BE SURE to leave a blank space after "... .OBJ",
- 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=KYBDBUFR.OBJ /b35/R3/V1
- ^ blank space
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- 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), and open the window as soon as KYBDBUFR.OBJ is loaded (/v1,
- this is the default).
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- * /Bn, n = 15 to 255, sets the maximum number of keystrokes held in the
- extended keystroke buffer
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- * /V0 closes the view-port to the keystroke buffer on bootup. The
- view-port may be reopened by pressing KEYPAD 5, V after POWERKIT has
- been loaded (unless the /N1 switch has been set, see below).
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- * /Rn, n = 1 to 25, tells KYBDBUFR.OBJ what line on the display you
- want the WINDOW to appear.
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- * /N1 disables the view-port and replaces the code that operates the
- view-port, with the buffer contents. This saves 95 bytes of memory.
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- UNLESS you have chosen to overwrite the code with the buffer (/N1), KYBDBUFR-
- .OBJ uses only 101 bytes, plus twice whatever length the buffer is.
- KYBDBUFR.OBJ will operate just fine whether POWERKIT is loaded or not.
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- NOTE: The luxury of POWERKIT's extended keystroke buffer may have to
- be foregone in some cases. Unfortunately, some programmers think the
- only buffer the BIOS (Basic Input Output System) supports is the small
- buffer at 40h:1Eh. 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's buffer is
- set to more than 15 keystrokes, because your machine will hang and not
- even KEYPAD 5, ESC (described in POWERKIT.DOC, page 7) will save you.
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