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- HOTKEY v1.04
- Keyboard Speedup Program for the IBM PC
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- On a normal PC, HOTKEY will roughly double the keyboard
- auto-repeat rate. This makes moving the cursor around a LOT
- faster and easier!
-
- Most keyboard speed-up programs share an annoying trait with the
- hardware repeat built into your keyboard: they keep stuffing
- keystrokes into the type-ahead buffer even when the program
- reading the keyboard is falling behind. This causes an
- unpredictable "overshoot" when you release the key!
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- HOTKEY solves this problem by only repeating a key if your
- keyboard type-ahead buffer is empty. This keeps the auto-repeat
- in sync with each program, giving you fast auto-repeat for fast
- programs and slow auto-repeat for slow programs. HOTKEY even
- performs the same service on your hardware auto-repeat,
- virtually eliminating overshoot while retaining the advantages
- of faster operation! (Note: you can still type ahead -- just
- press the same key repeatedly.)
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- Unlike some keyboard speed-up programs, HOTKEY does NOT have
- trouble when you use Alt plus the numeric keypad to type
- graphic characters - it won't run away on you!
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- HOTKEY should normally be installed in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file
- BEFORE any other keyboard-sensitive programs.
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- CAUTION: Because HOTKEY does tricky things with the hardware
- and BIOS, it may not work on all machines - test it carefully!