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- From: M.E.Bennun@CEN.EX.AC.UK
- Subject: Assignment of pgms to keys; dictionaries - memory usage and
- loading.
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- Can someone make a firm statement on this point, for it may be just as
- well to get it into the record.
-
- NB3's keyboard drivers made it clear what the laptop assignments were,
- and so if not needed they could be used for one's own favoured
- utilities. These were in the Ctrl keyboard state.
-
- The keyboard driver for NB4 does not mark the Ctrl state thusly. So I
- ask: what keyboard state can we fiddle with? I note that a number of
- keys in the Ctrl state are marked ";;" and thus they are silent; can
- we use them safely, or are they part of the Great Dragonfly's grand
- masterplan for when the bug-fixes+upgrades are released?
-
- I would greatly prefer to run pgms from assigned keys rather than as
- loaded phrases due to the memory implications, but before rolling up
- my sleeves and getting keyboard grease on my hands I'd like to get
- this cleared up.
-
- Which takes me to my second point. Is it possible to load dictionaries
- high? Can they go into expanded memory to any advantage? I know this
- point was discussed by Paul Bodin and Tony Woosley in the context of
- NB3(.1), but I don't think anyone made a definitive statement in
- regard to NB4's use of non-conventional memory - which gets summat
- crowded.
-
- Finally, I have cobbled together a short, cheap, and crude no great
- shakes pgm which seems to work: it will take the user dictionary's and
- phrase-library's name from the active file (just changing the
- extensions from whatever to .spl and .lib) and load these; the
- dictionary loading feature has, as we know, a bug in that the rule
- that the first one loaded gets the new words added, is not true when
- the menu is used; one has to do this from the command line. So to
- make it easier I wrote a short routine to do it. It is this, in fact,
- that I want to add to a key in the keyboard driver, and which has
- crystallised the above question. I don't think that my pgm is worth
- archiving as it is - one hopes - ephemeral; but for the moment if
- anyone wants it please drop me a message.
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- Mervyn E. Bennun, Law Department, University of Exeter
- Phone: (+44) (0) 392 263 161
- Postal Address: Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, Devon, U.K.
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