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- HOW TO USE STATLINE.COM
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- Here's the way to give your NumLock, Capslock, and ScrollLock
- toggle keys status indicators and learn about 26th-line programming
- as well. STATLINE.COM creates an extra line at the bottom of your
- screen. It uses this line to display three "light", one for each
- of the three toggle keys, so you can always see exactly which state
- these three keys are in.
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- The author of this utility program is John Socha, a contributor
- to PC Magazine. The ASSEMBLY and BASIC source codes to make
- STATLINE.COM appeared in the July 1986 issue of PC Magazine,
- Volume 5, Number 13.
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- USING STATLINE.COM - There are two ways to use STATLINE. First you
- just type STATLINE at the DOS prompt to load it into memory. It
- will stay there until the computer is rebooted. The other way is
- to just add the command line:
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- STATLINE
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- to your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. This way you will have it all the time.
- Be sure to have a copy of STATLINE.COM on your booting disk.
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- STATLINE works directly with the hardware of the display adapter
- in your computer, which means that the program won't work with
- all display adapters. STATLINE was written to work with the IBM
- Color/Graphics Adapter, IBM Monochrome Display Adapter, and the
- Compaq's built-in adapter. If you have any other display adapter,
- STATLINE may or may not work properly; in particular, the program
- doesn't work with IBM's Enhanced Graphics Adapter(EGA).
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- When you run STATLINE two things will happen. First, it will
- display the message "Installed Statline, by John Socha." Next, the
- number of lines on the screen will change from 25 to 26. Displayed
- on the 26th line will be the indicators. For the CapsLock you will
- see a small Up Arrow appear in the center of the line. For the
- NumLock you will see a "#" and for the ScrollLock you will see a
- double-ended arrow.
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- WORDS OF WARNING: STATLINE has a few quirks you should know about.
- First, while the program works on the Monochrome Display Adapter,
- its success there is incomplete. The problem is that Monochrome
- Display Adapter doesn't have enough memory on board to display a
- full 26 lines, the 26th line will have only 48 characters on it.
- It uses 32 characters from the first line on the screen. Next,
- STATLINE doesn't check to see if it's already in memory before
- it install itself, which is not a problem unless you also have
- SIDEKICK running on your system. See the article about how to
- solve this problem.
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- To get the complete story, see the article, which starts on page
- 305 of the above mentioned issue of PC Magazine.
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- To print this file, set the printer to the top of the page and
- enter the following command:
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- A>copy STATLINE.DOC prn
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