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Welcome to ProKey, version 4.00, revision 10. *************************Bulletin: new IBM XT and AT **************** If you have a new IBM XT or AT, with the new keyboard, read this. This is a new revision of ProKey, built to accommodate the new IBM XT models 089, 268, and 278, and new AT models 319 and 339, 80286 based clones, machines built around the 80386 CPU and the Personal Series 2 computers. What these new computers have in common is a new system ROM which works very differently with the keyboard, compared to the old ROM. Even if you don't have the new keyboard, you may still have the new ROM. We have adapted ProKey and Layout so they work with the new ROM. This revision of ProKey is completely backwards compatible with all previous IBM computers and keyboards, including non-IBM keyboards. This revision recognizes all the new keys on the new keyboard. Most of the new keys are additional duplicates of keys which already exist on the keypad. ProKey gives the new keys new names, separate from their synonyms on the keypad. For example, you can bind one macro to <chome> on the new cursor area and a different macro to <home> on the original keypad. Following is a list of the new keys recognized by this revision. This table gives you the exact names ProKey has assigned these keys. New Function Keys: <f11> <f12> <capsf11> <capsf12> <altf11> <altf12> <ctrlf11> <ctrlf12> The Keypad: <k/> <k*> <k-> <home> <up> <pgup> <k+> <lft <ctr> <rgt> <end> <dn> <pgdn> <kenter> <ins> <del> <ctrlk/> <ctrlk*> <ctrlk-> <ctrlhome> <ctrlup> <ctrlpgup> <ctrlk+> <ctrllft <ctrlctr> <ctrlrgt> <ctrlend> <ctrldn> <ctrlpgdn> <ctrlkenter> <ctrlins> <ctrldel> <altk/> <altk*> <altk-> <althome> <altup> <altpgup> <altk+> <altlft <altctr> <altrgt> <altend> <altdn> <altpgdn> <altkenter> <altins> <altdel> The Cursorpad: <Insert> <chome> <pageup> <delete> <cend> <pagedown> <cup> <clft> <cdn> <crgt> <capsInsert> <capschome> <capspageup> <capsdelete> <capscend> <capspagedown> <capscup> <capsclft> <capscdn> <capscrgt> <ctrlInsert> <ctrlchome> <ctrlpageup> <ctrldelete> <ctrlcend> <ctrlpagedown> <ctrlcup> <ctrlclft> <ctrlcdn> <ctrlcrgt> <altInsert> <altchome> <altpageup> <altdelete> <altcend> <altpagedown> <altcup> <altclft> <altcdn> <altcrgt> Miscellaneous: <capstab> <ctrltab> <alttab> <ctrlbks> <altbks> <altesc> ********************************************************************* Layout for the Enhanced Keyboard. One of the first things you may wish to do is move the ctrl key back where it belongs -- next to the "A" key. Put "Layout newat.lay/l" into your autoexec.bat file. There is a new revision of Layout which knows how to deal with the Enhanced Keyboard. It cannot tell the difference between the keys on the keypad and their duplicates on the new "cursor pad" though. Layout will only run under DOS 3.2 and above on machines with the new ROM. It will not work under DOS 3.2 if the machine has an earlier ROM. The new ROM was introduced around March, 1986. *************************Bulletin: new IBM XT and AT **************** There's a lot of information here - answers to questions, solutions to problems, hints and help. Some of it will be invaluable, much of it you'll never need. Don't try to read it all now, but get acquainted with the following contents list so you'll know what topics are dealt with. Then when you want to use a feature that's covered here (such as the typeahead buffer or the concurrent editor) read the appropriate section. It's also a good place to look if you're having a problem. A very convenient way to find any particular subject is to use your word processor's Search command. Just Search for the key words from the Table of contents, and you'll get to the appropriate section fast. The information in this file is arranged into the following sections: 1. How to obtain technical support from RoseSoft. 2. Screen blank (monitor saving) feature. 3. The typeahead buffer. 4. Using ProKey's concurrent editor. 5. Using ProKey's commands in macros. 6. Hints on maneuvering among ProKey's menus. 7. ProKey's windows - what to do if they don't appear. 8. Using ProKey with programs that operate in the graphics mode. 9. Software compatibility news. 10. Computer hardware compatibility news. 11. What to do if characters are being dropped during macro playback, if the macro stops playing back after one character, or if garbage characters appear during playback. 12. My Alt+keypad has quit working! Typing graphics and foreign language characters with the Alt+Keypad when ProKey is installed. 13. How to use a keyname within a macro of the same name. (e.g. defining the <Enter> key as an enter, down arrow.) Also, how to swap the definitions of two keys. 14. Using Layout to reconfigure the keyboard and a list of *.LAY files on your diskette. 15. Starter Set list and more examples. 16. Using ProKey's date macros program. 17. European Keyboards. 1. Technical Support: There is a TROUBLESHOOTING section in the User's Guide - Chapter R6. Please refer to it (as well as to this file) before calling RoseSoft for assistance. If you call, please have your ProKey Serial Number ready, which is printed on your diskette. Only registered ProKey owners will be supported. Also, please be at your computer and have the contents of your autoexec.bat and config.sys files available. Technical support is available from 8:30 - 4:30 PST. RoseSoft Incorporated Post Office Box 45880 Seattle, WA 98145-0880 (206) 282-0454 2. The screen blank (monitor saving) feature. ProKey comes with a screen blank feature that will turn your monitor off after 10 minutes of inactivity. The default for this feature is off, which means your monitor will not be turned off automatically. It can be switched on by installing ProKey with the command: pkload/b+ A number of users have expressed concern over the screen blank feature and their Hercules graphic cards. We have gone to some lengths to make sure the screen blank feature is safe for both your monitor and your board. The design we use is compatible with Hercules and other graphics cards of its type (and is the reason why there may be a thin line remaining at the top of your screen when the monitor is blanked.) 2.1 Screen blanking the EGA and Paradise cards. ProKey's screen blanking feature will not work with the IBM Enhanced Graphics Adaptor and Enhanced Color Card, nor with the clones. 3. The typeahead buffer ProKey 4.0 lets you adjust the size of the keyboard typeahead buffer (see Page 7-2). ProKey's default setting is 0, which means that the feature is turned off, so that you will have DOS's standard 15 keystrokes of typeahead. If you want to use a larger buffer, you must specify the size you want with PKLOAD/t#, where # can be any number up to 255. This must be done at installation time. Some programs may need a setting of 0 to work properly. The symptoms are that nothing happens when you type and the keyboard starts beeping after 15 keystrokes. We have found several programs which need a setting of 0: OfficeWriter, Popular Programs' PopUps (see the PopUps section elsewhere in this file), SpotLight, TenKey, AMIKey, the Extended Batch Language, PC InterComm Version 2, DoubleDOS, and Cruise Control. If you want to use a large buffer but sometimes use programs which require a setting of 0, you can install ProKey with the larger buffer and then set it to 0 with a batch file before loading the program which requires that setting. Then increase the size of the typeahead buffer when you exit the program: pkload/t64 install with a 64 character buffer prokey/t0 switch to DOS's buffer program run the program prokey/t64 switch back to ProKey's buffer 4. Some notes on using ProKey's on-line editor. When you type the name of a macro in the editor, it is the name of the macro which appears, and not its definition. Imagine this situation - you have swapped the <:> and the <;>, so <;> is the macro name for the definition <:>. When you make a macro that will give a directory listing - dir a: - what you will see in the editor is dir a; What appears when you type the colon is a semicolon - the name and not the definition. When the macro you've created is played back, the macro name <;> is translated to its definition <:> and all is well. When you want to insert one of the editor's editing commands (such as <rgt> or <dn>) in a macro, you must precede it with the "use original function" command <`>. Try it. Go into the editor and begin editing a macro. At some point, press <`>. The cursor jumps to the top of the line as usual. Now press the left arrow key on the keypad. You'll get <lft> in the macro instead of moving left. The same is true for the other arrows, backspace, home, etc. One <`> causes them to be typed into the macro by name. When you actually want a ` in a macro, you have to press it twice. If you want to precede a macro name with a ` so that the original function of that key gets used, you press ` twice to get the ` and then press the macro name. For example, to put `<ctrlg> into a macro, you would type ``<ctrlg>. Just for fun, let's do a `<lft>. You press ` twice to get the `, and then press ` once more followed by <lft>. Got it? 5. Putting ProKey's own commands into macros. If you often use the List feature, you may want to turn it into a single keystroke command. You can do this by making the following macro (it must be made with the editor): <Alt/>E<key><Alt/>L What you'll see in the editor is: <cmd>L To leave the editor press <AltEnter> and to return to your program press <Enter>. ProKey's other commands can be put into macros if you create the macro in the editor rather than in the interactive mode. For example, if you want to use one macro to read in a new file of macros, create this macro: <Alt/>E<key><Alt/>rfilename<enter><enter> The first <Enter> tells ProKey to accept the filename. When files are read via the menu, you return to the main menu after the READ. The second <Enter> is necessary to return you to your program. Again, press <AltEnter> to tell ProKey to accept the macro and <Enter> to return to your program. 6. Hints on maneuvering in the menus. The menu was designed so that you could execute more than one command without going back to your program. After you edit or annotate a macro or perform a file read or write, you return to the main menu. Another <Enter> will return you to your program. <CtrlEsc> and <Esc> can also be used to take down the main menu. You can take down the dictionary listing in two ways. Pressing <Enter> or <Esc> will return you to ProKey's main menu while pressing <CtrlEsc> will return you directly to your program. 7. ProKey's windows and the Z command. When ProKey puts up a window or one of its menus, it does so in one of two ways, either fast or slow. Of course, you would like this to happen as quickly as possible, but with some computers and some software, a slower speed is necessary. For example, some video boards are not true IBM compatibles and you cannot write to the screen at high speeds. ProKey's video speed can be in three modes: fast, slow, and automatic. Automatic is the default and lets ProKey attempt to choose the speed. Most of the time, it will choose correctly, but even ProKey is not infallible. When ProKey has chosen incorrectly, ProKey's menu WILL NOT appear when you press <Alt/>. If this happens, try changing to the slow speed. First, exit from ProKey's (invisible) window by pressing <CtrlEsc>. Then exit your program in your usual fashion. Type this command at the DOS prompt: prokey/z- (or pkload/z-). You can also set ProKey to the fast speed with the command: prokey/z+. If it seems that the menus appear rather slowly, try using the fast speed. You'll either be pleasantly surprised when the screen gets written about 100 times faster, or the menus won't appear at all, in which case you'll have to use the prokey/z- command to get your menus back. Once you've executed a z+ or z- command, ProKey cannot return to the automatic mode (that is the one where ProKey does the choosing) during that computer session. When you're in the graphics mode, ProKey will always use the slow video speed, even if you've done a /z+ or /z-. And that brings us to our next topic: using ProKey with programs that have a graphics mode. 8. Using ProKey with programs that have a graphics mode. Some programs run entirely in a graphics mode (such as Reflex), while others have a graphics mode you can enter (such as 1-2-3). Before ProKey can put up one of its own menus or its dictionary, it must save the current contents of the screen. When ProKey is installed, it sets aside a portion of memory for saving the screen. A graphics screen requires 4 times as much memory space as a non- graphics screen. If you use a program that has a graphics mode and you want to be able to use ProKey's menus and dictionary, you must tell ProKey to set aside a much larger portion of memory for screen saving. This can only be done at installation time. The command for this is: pkload/y The Y command can be used in conjuction with other commands which must be executed at installation time. These include the command to change the size of ProKey's macro storage buffer and keyboard typeahead buffer. If you have not executed this command and you try to bring up ProKey's menu in a graphics mode, you will get the diagnostic (error message): Sorry, you must install with PKLOAD/Y for graphics mode. Only use this command if you intend to use ProKey with a program that uses graphics as it increases the amount of memory which ProKey uses by about 20K. When in the graphics mode, the cursor will appear as a reversed box around the character. If you find it difficult to see, move the cursor around a bit. NOTE WELL: these instructions apply to the Color Graphics Adapter (CGA) and not to the EGA. ProKey's menus cannot appear when in the graphics mode of an EGA card (except in Microsoft Word). ProKey's menus can appear when in the text mode of an EGA card. 9. Current software compatibility news. The following software programs are known to be incompatible with ProKey: Leading Edge Word Processor, StretchCalc -- i.e. VisiCalc IV STSC APL Idea Processor XyWrite II and II+ Smartcom II Samna and Samna III IBM 5250 emulator WordVision Visidex and Visifile Vterm II Microsoft Windows Quadram Software. Quadram's older RAMdrive, called QD, works fine with ProKey. Their older spooler, called QSpool, requires that ProKey be loaded before QSpool. QuadMaster II. The QM2 program is incompatible with Layout. The QM2 program lets you set up a RAMdrive, Spooler, and/or Disk Cache. Only the Disk Cache is incompatible with ProKey. To use the RAMdrive and/or Spooler, set up your autoexec.bat file as follows: qm2 qd=m qs=n,batch pause pkload etc., etc. This is the normal QM2 setup, but without the qc=x for the disk cache. You can use software other than Quadram's with a Quadram board. DOS 2.0 and 2.1 have a print spooler, and DOS 3.0 and 3.1 have a spooler and RAMdrive. AST, STB, and Tecmar software, and all the public domain RAMdrives and print spoolers that we have encountered work well with ProKey. We have tested the QuadMaster III software, and found it to be fully compatible with ProKey. Popular Programs (formerly BellSoft) PopUps. To use ProKey with any of Popular Program's PopUp programs follow these instructions: 1. Load the PopUps before you run PKLOAD. 2. When you run PKLOAD, use the /t0 option to turn off ProKey's typeahead buffer: pkload/t0 3. The installation of ProKey will stall two or three times. Press the <Enter> key at each pause. The PopUps cannot be called up if you are using ProKey's typeahead keyboard buffer. We understand that the new version of the PopUp programs have remedied the problem of ProKey stalling on installation (point 3 above). You should contact Popular Programs for information on how to receive this new version. Microsoft Word: ProKey is compatible with Word Versions 1.15 and above. ProKey's typing speed should be set to 0 and + when running Word. The command for this is "prokey/f0/f+". A sample batch file for running Word would be: prokey word.pro/r /f0 /f+ word This batch file will read in a file of ProKey macros to use with Word, and set ProKey's typing speed to + and 0. It then runs Word. Starting with revision 10 of ProKey, we are able to bring up our menu etc. while in Word 3.0, even when running with a Hercules or EGA card. But this will work only when you are running in 80 column mode. Word 2.0 with a Hercules Graphics Card: If you are running Word 2.0 with a Hercules Graphics Card, you will have to perform a few extra steps to make ProKey's Command Window visible.First, you will need to run the program INT10.COM (on the ProKey diskette) before the PKLOAD program. Your AUTOEXEC.BAT file would contain the lines: int10 pkload Before you run Word each time, you should run the command "prokey/j+", and after exiting Word, you should run the command "prokey/j-", as shown in the batch file below. The /j option switches ProKey in and out of its Word/Hercules Mode. A sample batch file to start Word when using a Hercules Graphics Card would be: prokey word.pro/r /f0 /f+ /j+ word prokey dos.pro/r /j- This batch file will read in a file of ProKey macros to use with Word, set ProKey's typing speed to 0, and switch ProKey to its Word/Hercules mode. It then runs Word. When Word exits, it will read in a file of ProKey macros to use with DOS, and switch ProKey out of its Word/Hercules mode. When running Word with this batch file, you will find that ProKey's Help Window ("Press Key to Define") and Error Window ("You're making an endless loop.") are invisible. When you press the <alt/> key to bring up ProKey's Command Window, the screen will roll over to text mode, and the window will appear. After you have finished with it (Editing, Listing, etc.), the screen will roll back to Word in the Graphics Mode. Section 8 of this file describes using ProKey with programs that operate in Graphics Mode. Even though Word is running in Graphics Mode on the Hercules, the /Y option does not apply. Because ProKey performs the roll to Text Mode, it isn't really Graphics, as far as ProKey's Command Window is concerned. Word with its /H option and a Hercules Graphics Card: If you run Word with the /h option, to get more lines and columns on the screen, the above instructions apply. Word with its /C option and a Hercules Graphics Card: If you prefer, you can run Word with the /c option, and see ALL of ProKey's windows. In this case, you should not use the /J switch, because Word will not be in the Hercules Graphics Mode. A batch file for this would be: prokey word.pro/r /f0 word /c prokey dos.pro/r /f1 /t0 This batch file will read in a file of ProKey macros to use with Word, and set ProKey's typing speed to 0. It then runs Word in its /c mode (in this, Word's "character" mode, boldface characters show as highlighted, italic as underlined, etc.) When Word exits, the batch file will read in a file of ProKey macros to use with DOS, set ProKey's typing speed to 1 (the default value), and turn off ProKey's typeahead buffer (the default setting). You may prefer to run Word with the /c option while you develop your macros, so that you will have all of ProKey's windows to assist you. Once you have built them, and become more comfortable with ProKey's operation, you could change to the Hercules mode, and have just ProKey's Command Window be visible. Microsoft Multiplan To use ProKey with Multiplan 3.0 and above, you must set the typing speed to f+/f0. See the above notes on Word for more information. Framework If you run Framework installed for the Hercules Graphics Card, ProKey's windows will be invisible. That is, if you hit <alt=>, it will look as though you've done nothing at all, but you'll really be starting to define a ProKey macro. If you install Framework to work in monochrome mode, ProKey's windows all come up fine. In this mode, boldface characters show as highlighted, italic as underlined, etc. When you are developing your ProKey macros, you should run Framework in the monochrome mode, so that you'll have the ProKey windows to assist you. Once you've built the macros, you can run Framework in its Hercules mode, and use the macros. Even in Hercules mode, all of ProKey operates properly, it's just that our windows are invisible. IBM's DisplayWrite. These programs work well with ProKey. However, they come with a program called KQE (for Keyboard Queue Extender) that does not. KQE lets you type ahead more than the 15 characters that DOS allows. This is exactly the same as ProKey's typeahead buffer as described on Page 7-2 of your User's Guide. You should remove the lines regarding KQE from the batch file that starts up DisplayWrite. Sidekick. Sidekick is fully compatible with ProKey. ProKey must be installed, with the PKLOAD program, before Sidekick is installed with the SK program. 10. Current computer hardware compatibility news. ProKey 4.0 is incompatible with these computers: Hyperion Tandy 2000 Wang PC Sanyo 555, without their IBM compatibility board HP 150 This Revision 10 is no longer compatible with the TI Professional. Please see notes below. On the IBM PCjr, the <alt/> keystroke is used to generate the <\>, so you must choose a different keystroke to bring up ProKey's Command Menu. See page 7-2 of your ProKey manual for how to do this. With some Tandy computers, and some Zenith computers, you must choose a different keystroke than <alt/> to bring up ProKey's Command Menu, and a different keystroke than <altenter> to have ProKey process an edited macro. See page 7-2 of your ProKey manual for how to do this. After you read that Section, you'll be able to understand our recommendation in the following paragraph. For the Tandy 1000, the most satisfactory settings are: PKLOAD /xc[ctrlf12] /xm[ctrlf11] /xa[ctrlent] This way, the keys work exactly as in the ProKey manual. On the Tandy 1000, several keys get mis-named by prokey. It is inconvenient, but the program still functions fine, even on these keys. Even though the key is named wrong, you can still bind macros to it, and save them to files and read them back in. For a few Zenith PCs, the most satisfactory settings are: PKLOAD /xc[alt.] /xa[ctrlent] These parameters change the <alt=> key to its neighbor, <alt.>, and the <altenter> key -- for saving and quitting an edit -- to <ctrlenter>. It turns out on these keyboards that you can still press <altenter>, because altenter and ctrlenter are synonymous. Texas Instruments Professional Computer. ProKey 4.0 revision 10 is no longer compatible with the Texas Instruments Professional Computer. Please contact RoseSoft for a copy of the program which you can run on your TI Pro. 11. Incorrect macro playback. ProKey is delivered with its typing speed set in the fast mode. While this is fine for most programs, some programs cannot handle the fast output of characters and will react in various ways. Symptoms of this problem include the dropping of characters during playback, or the stopping of the macro after one character has been played back. Some programs will output garbage characters on screen. To deal with this problem, ProKey's macro playback speed should be changed from its default of ON to OFF. Please refer to pages 7-6 through 7-8 of your User's Guide. The following programs require that ProKey's slow mode be used. Use the command "prokey/f-" or the keystrokes <Alt/>F- to change to slow mode. SuperCalc 2 and 3 VisiCalc 1.0, 1.1 and 1.2 The latest release of SuperCalc may not require this. Try some experimentation. The following programs require that the typing speed be set to 0, via either the command "prokey/f0" or the keystrokes <Alt/>F0<Enter> TopView Microsoft Word You can successfully link dBaseII commands by setting the typing speed to high numbers such as 50. Try some experimentation. 12. Typing graphics and foreign language characters using Alt+Keypad codes. When using the keypad in combination with ALT to produce ASCII characters, you must hold down the left-shift key together with the Alt while you enter the keypad digits. This differs from the way these characters are accessed when ProKey is NOT installed. In that case, the left shift is not held down. Please refer to page R2-8 of your User's Guide for more information. 13. How to use a keyname within a macro of the same name. The <`> is referred to as the "Use Original Function" command in the User's Guide. We'll refer to it as the UOF. When you include a keyname in a macro of the same name, you must precede the keyname with the UOF character `. This tells ProKey not to interpret the keyname as a macro but to send through the original meaning of the key. For example, if you want to define the enter key as an enter followed by a down arrow, you would create the following macro. <alt=><enter>`<enter><dn><alt-> If you are creating this macro in the interactive mode, the UOF character will not appear on screen. The cursor will jump to the top of the line indicating that you have just pressed the UOF character. In this example, you would next type an enter followed by a down arrow. If you are creating this macro in ProKey's editor, you must press the UOF character twice in order to get it to print out in your macro file. The UOF is also used for swapping the location of definitions. For example, suppose you wanted to define <F1> as <F2>, and <F2> as <F1>. Use these two macros: <Alt=><F1>`<F2><Alt-> <Alt=><F2>`<F1><Alt-> Refer to Chapter 9 of your User's Guide for more information on this command and to page 7-2 for instructions on how to use a keystroke other than the <`> for the UOF. 14. Layout Here is a list of the Layout files that are on your ProKey diskette: IBM.LAY standard IBM keyboard IBMSEL.LAY IBM keyboard with left shift swapped with \ AT.LAY keyboard for the IBM AT KEYTRON.LAY the standard Keytronics board (not the 5151) DSK.LAY a Dvorak Simplified keyboard DSKR.LAY the Dvorak right handed keyboard DSKL.LAY the Dvorak left handed keyboard NEWAT.LAY swaps the CapsLock and Ctrl keys on the enhanced keyboard. Layout does not run with DOS version 3.2 on machines with the older ROM (pre March 1986). Though DOS 3.2 appears to you to be very much like its predecessors, it has some profound internal differences that make Layout impossible. If Layout is important to you, consider using DOS 3.1; you won't loose much DOS capability in the trade-off for Layout. Layout is a sophisticated program which works closely with the ROM (Read Only Memory) of the computer. Layout attempts to recognize the ROM of the computer by comparing it to a list that it keeps. If the ROM is not on the list, Layout will not work on that computer. Unfortunately, when we designed Layout, we couldn't foresee that the various computer manufacturers would be constantly creating new ROMs. At present, there are scores of different ROMs in the computers on the market with new ones arriving all the time. The manufacturers do not make announcements when they introduce a new ROM. Because of this situation, we are unable to offer a Layout program that is compatible with all the ROMs on the market. Layout is completely independent from ProKey itself, and ProKey runs fine regardless of the ROM that is in your computer. In most cases you can use ProKey macros to make changes in your keyboard arrangement, such as setting up a Dvorak keyboard. Layout is an attempt to add even more convenience to this process, but it was, and is, an add-on to the ProKey program. The following is the list of computers which Layout currently runs on. However, because even within the same computer brand there are many different ROMs, Layout may not run on your version of a given computer. IBM PC AT&T 6300 IBM PC/XT Eagle (all models) IBM PC/AT Compaq (most models) IBM PCjr Corona (most models) Columbia Seequa Chameleon Zenith 150 Texas Instruments Professional Leading Edge Mitsubishi Sperry Panasonic Senior Partner Aftek ITT Kaypro 16 Ericsson Orchid Turbo 186 board Tava Televideo Tandy 1000, 1000-HD, 1200, 3000 (but not 2000) If Layout does not run on your particular computer, we may be able to provide you with a custom version that does. The cost for this customization is $15.00. Contact Technical Support for details. 15. Starter Sets and more examples: There are Starter Sets on your diskette to use with 1-2-3, WordStar, and dBaseII. They are named: 123.PRO WS.PRO DB.PRO They are documented in the files named: 123.DOC WS.DOC DB.DOC You can read these files by using the DOS type command: A>type 123.doc Several companies have provided us with macros to use with their programs. Peachtext 5000 by Peachtree: PEACH.PRO is a self documented file containing macro definitions. After you've loaded it, type <Alt/>L to get a listing of the macros. 16. Using ProKey's date macros program You can easily change the names of the macros you wish to use for today's date by editing the BASIC program that writes the macros. The name of the program is DATE.BAS. Lines 40 and 58 are the lines that write the macros. For example, you could change the name of the <Altd> macro to <d1> by replacing <Altd> with <d1>. Line 40 would then read: 40 print#1, "<begdef><d1><guard>"+m$+"/"+d$+"/"+y$+"<enddef>" You can also change the format the date is produced in by editing these same statements. For example, if you wanted the date in the format yy/mm/dd, you would change this part of line 40 from: +m$+"/"+d$+"/"+y$+ to: +y$+"/"+m$+"/"+d$ The macros can be unguarded by deleting the word <guard> from the statement. 17. European Keyboards. Starting with this revision of ProKey 4.00, we work better with the KEYBUK, KEYBFR, KEYBGR, KEYBIT, and KEYBSP keyboard drivers. You will probably be able to use our <alt=>, <alt->, <alt,>, <alt/>, <ctrl->, and <ctrl]> keys without any special setup, but you have to stop and think a moment. Different national keyboards have different characters printed on the keys. The question is: exactly where are these keys on your keyboard? What we call the <alt=> key is just left of the Backspace key. Our <alt-> key is one key left of that. The table below shows the key you should press for each ProKey function. Each key is identified by the lower-case character printed on it. KEYBFR KEYBGR KEYBIT KEYBSP comment -------------------------------------------------------- <alt=> <alt=> <alt'> <altì> <alt¡> left of backspace <alt-> <alt)> <altß> <alt'> <alt'> 2nd left of bksp <alt/> <alt!> <alt-> <alt-> <alt-> left of shift key <alt,> <alt;> <alt,> <alt,> <alt,> 3rd left of shift <ctrl-> <ctrl=> <ctrl-> <ctrl-> <ctrl-> <ctrl]> <ctrl$> <ctrl+> <ctrl+> <ctrl+> upper-left of enter You will also have to load ProKey with the following statement: PKLOAD /xo[*], where you choose a punctuation mark and substitute it for *. Choose one you don't use often. This load time parameter tells ProKey to use the * as its "original-function key." See pages 5-1 and 9-1 for explanations of this key.