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- BUF160 v1.6a
-
- BUF160 is a device driver which provides a 10-fold expansion of the
- standard keyboard buffer. Specifically, while the default keyboard
- buffer is usually 16 characters, this becomes 160 characters after
- installing this device driver. The driver is installed by copying it
- to ones hard disk and including the command:
-
- DEVICE=<path>\BUF160.SYS
-
- where "<path>" is the path of the directory holding the driver. It
- is recommended that it be the first device driver installed (since it
- needs to be in the same segment and the ROM BIOS). It has been
- tested under DOS 5.0 (loaded both high and not high) and DOS 3.3, and
- no version incompatibilities are expected.
-
- This archive contains 3 files:
-
- BUF160.DOC This document
- BUF160.ASM The source code
- BUF160.SYS The device driver
-
- This release of the program was modified by Robert M. Ryan to support
- DOS 5.0. The previous release, v1.4, sometimes froze the system on
- startup under DOS 5.0. This corrects that problem. This version also
- corrects some minor coding errors.
-
- The original program was written by Donald "DJ" Delorie and was
- further modified by David Kirschbaum (?). While originally developed
- to work with MASM, v1.6 was developed with TASM, but hopefully full
- MASM compatibility has been retained.
-
- This program has probably outlived the lifespan originally envisaged
- by its creator, but I nevertheless find it quite useful. I provide
- it with no guarantee of satisfaction, but hope that you find it as
- helpful as I do.
-
- Robert M. Ryan, Robert_Ryan@brown.edu (internet)
- st802200@brownvm (bitnet)
- 70324.227@compuserve.com (compuserve via internet)
-
-
- The following text is the original BUF160.DOC text file:
-
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson)
- Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
- Subject: buf160.sys (device driver)
- Date: 4 May 88 19:21:16 GMT
-
- This is a cheap 'n dirty keyboard buffer expander. It works by installing
- itself as the standard keyboard buffer in the bios. It can only do this
- if it is in the same segment as the bios, so you are well advised to
- install it as the first device driver.
-
- While it's installing itself into the bios, it also installs a device
- driver called KBUFFER. Anything written to KBUFFER ends up in the
- keyboard buffer.
-
- Written by Donald "Dj" Delorie:
- UUCP: uunet!unh!dgdhm!dj
- Internet: Delorie_D%DUR09.CEO.DG.COM@adam.DG.COM
-
- Toad Hall Notes:
- I was using BUF160.COM (without source), loading it via AUTOEXEC.BAT,
- and was pleasantly surprised to find this!
- Tweaked it (naturally), now works a little faster, is a little smaller,
- and the tweaked source has comments!
- DJ's original code is still here (BUF160.ASM and BUF160.DVD), and my tweaked
- version is BUF160_4.ASM and BUF160_4.DVD.
-
- This documentation says the product should be a .SYS file, while the source
- says .DVD. Doesn't matter .. just so your CONFIG.SYS file says the right
- file name! Rename it as you will.
-
- David Kirschbaum
- Toad Hall
- kirsch@braggvax.ARPA
-