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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:
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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