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- LAST POWERKIT: With the introduction of the POWERKIT II system, this POWERKIT,
- version 1.9, will be the last POWERKIT version. Support for this version will
- be maintained, and minor revisions may be made, if necessary.
-
- INSTALLATION:
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- POWERKIT installation is easy, just type "PK" at the DOS prompt (if you are
- using a 101/102 key keyboard driver, KEYB??.COM, type PK AFTER loading the
- driver). Installing the keystroke buffer (POWERKIT's keystroke buffer can hold
- from 15 to 255 keystrokes) is a bit more difficult, but POWERKIT will run just
- fine WITHOUT IT (and vice versa). Its installation is described later.
-
- WHAT DOES POWERKIT DO?
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- Once POWERKIT is loaded, you will notice your keys repeating more rapidly, and
- without run-on. You can set the repeat rate to a value that is comfortable for
- you.
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- Your screen will blank after a few minutes, if you haven't typed anything.
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- As mentioned above, you can set the typeahead buffer to more than the ridicu-
- lous 15 keystrokes that the BIOS provides. Also, you can open a WINDOW into
- that buffer when you are typing "blind" (to see and correct your mistakes).
-
- Your floppy disk drive motor can be shut down earlier.
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- If a program of yours happens to hang-up, Press KEYPAD 5, ESC to get back to
- the DOS prompt.
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- Or press KEYPAD 5, E to exit a program temporarily. Then type "exit" at the
- DOS prompt to return to your program.
-
- If you have a non-standard keyboard (Tandy 1000, for example), try the
- KEYBOARD REDEFINE in a program that doesn't get along with your keyboard.
-
- Use HOOK to let resident utilities pop up inside programs that won't let them.
-
- Try KEYPAD 5, A, it lets you define a MACRO that you can have repeat as fast
- or as slow (as slow as once every 4 mins. 15 secs.) as you like. Or, it will
- repeat one or more MACROS created by another program.
-
- If you take a laptop on trips, KEYPAD 5, P lets you run Word Processors on it,
- even when they insist that a printer be attached (I keep this ON all the time
- because I'm always hitting Prc Sc or SHIFT Prt Sc when I don't want to).
-
- There's lots more, but I'm running out of breath. POWERKIT has more features,
- packed into a smaller space, and costing less ($9.95), than anything else on
- the market. If you try it for awhile, you'll begin to LOVE it. It'll increase
- your productivity, and lower your tension level. In short, POWERKIT is a
- mini-masterpiece.
-
- I wouldn't think of telling you what to do, but if I were you, I'd BUY it, it's
- a WINNER (also, there are prompt answers for your questions waiting online for
- you at (303) 377-6725).
-
- KEYSTROKE BUFFER INSTALLATION:
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- To operate the typeahead buffer, the file KYBDBUFR.OBJ must be on your boot
- disk, and the line:
-
- DEVICE=KYBDBUFR.OBJ (instructions to KYBDBUFR may go here)
-
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- must be in the CONFIG.SYS file on your boot disk. Ideally, this line should be
- near the TOP of your CONFIG.SYS file. Your boot disk is the floppy disk you
- place in disk drive "A" when you turn the machine on, unless you have a hard
- disk drive, in which case your boot disk is the hard disk. If you do not have
- a file named CONFIG.SYS on your boot disk, transfer the CONFIG.SYS file that
- comes with this package to your boot disk at the same time you transfer KYBD-
- BUFR.OBJ. To transfer these files, boot up, put the disk containing KYBDBUFR-
- .OBJ and CONFIG.SYS in floppy disk drive "B", then type:
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- COPY B:KYBDBUFR.OBJ <press ENTER>
- COPY B:CONFIG.SYS <press ENTER>
-
- If your machine has only one floppy disk drive, and no hard disk drive, drive
- "B" is also drive "A", and the above procedure will involve swapping your boot
- disk with the KYBDBUFR.OBJ disk, and back again. Reboot your computer, KYBDBUFR
- will let you know if it is loaded.
-
- *NOTE: When sending in the registration amount, if you request additional
- modules/programs (or just the latest version of POWERKIT), please send $2.50
- extra to cover the cost of handling and shipping the diskette. EUROPEAN users,
- please send U.S. currency, it costs me TOO MUCH to exchange currency.
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