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FUNCTION KEY EDITING KIT VERSION 1.0
How often do you find yourself doing much more pecking at the keyboard
than desired? With this kit, a command such as \Util\Pkunzip \Temp\File.ext
can be performed in 3 hits on keys (prior to entering the file name), rather
than the 20 necessary keys to hit. This kit includes room for 20 different
function key setups, some of which are basic, such as the key setup, and
others which the user can designed with instructions from this text. An
important note is that you need to call for the ANSI.SYS file in the
CONFIG.SYS file. This is explained further in the file README.1ST.
1. Being able to define functions for your 10 F keys and 10 [Alt] F keys,
and considering the 20 different sets of function keys, gives you 400
possibilities. This kit will give the user a choice of either using all batch
files, or for those more ambitious, editing the sample .Com file submitted
with this kit. You can place the key.bat in your autoexec.bat file and have
the key (with basically embedded commands) functions already actuated.
2. One note is important; certain programs use the function keys and it
may be necessary to reset the function keys back to their original settings.
For that reason, the batch file Keyoff.bat is submitted in this package. This
includes both com files needed to remove the redefinition functions. Another
method of removing the functions is to Edit the autoexec to not include the
key.bat command and reboot. Occasionally, the use of all these keys may
produce an overload; rebooting will correct that. Hopefully, future versions
of this will eliminate this.
3. The basic set of function keys used is called key.bat; this calls up
the two .Com files key1 and key2 and prints the following full screen help
HELP SCREEN WHEN KEY IS ACTIVATED
F1 key: Help Screen for these special keys
F2 key: Typ (Types out one screen at a time)
F3 key: Copy
F4 key: Changes Directory (User's Choice)
F5 key: Changes to the root directory
F6 key: Dir/w
F7 key: Initiates Enable
F8 key: Clears screen
F9 key: Initiates the UTIL function keys setup
F10 key: Redefinition command of function keys
Alt F1 key: Smaller Help Screen
Alt F2 key: Edlin command (to edit *.com and other ASCII files)
Alt F3 key: *.* (wildcard function)
Alt F4 key: Changes directory (Awaiting Choice)
Alt F5 key: Invokes the Editor Program
Alt F6 key: Dir (Directory of awaited selection)
Alt F7 key: Initiates the Directory Function Keys
Alt F8 key: Initiates the General Function Key Setup (supplements KEY)
Alt F9 key: Shows the Small help screen for this key function
Alt F10 key: Copy Con (Allows copying from the keyboard to a file)
4. Of note is that 10 of the above are embedded commands, 2 are help
screens, and 5 interact with other function redefinition programs. That
leaves 3 programs which either must be loaded by the user, changed by a user
written batch file, or ignored by the user who will see Bad Command when the
key is hit. These keys are [F2] to initiate an old Typing file called TYP
(included in this package), [F7] for the EN batch file to initiate Enable,
and [Alt][F5] to initiate a small quick Editor program (available on the Tandy
Harbor BBS under Edit11.Zip).
5. Certain notes on the Key setup are as follows: The wildcard key (*.*)
can be used with Dir or Delete (not recommended to be a function key due to
the danger of hitting it by mistake). Also this does not self execute. You
can hit the wildcard key [Alt][F3], then backspace twice, and then type in an
extention to display or delete all files of that extention. The Dir key
[Alt][F6] also does not self execute; you can hit Backspace once and then /p
to show Dir/p, the directory by page.
6. The [F1] key will always be a full screen help guide for the current
function setup, the [Alt][F1] key will always be a 4-5 line quick help index
for the current setup that will not clear the screen, and the [F10] key will
always set up the Redefinition setup, in which the user has the choice of 20
definition setups. Also, in all cases, the [Alt][F9] key will initiate the
key setup (above) with the 4-5 line help guide, in which the user can use
those functions, including when the key setup is already invoked to maintain
continuity. The [Alt][F10] key will usually allow the Copy Con function; one
note on this is that you have to hit [Ctrl] Z as the [F6] key, usually able to
finish an ASCII file, is already redefined. One note on the smaller help
screens is that anything in capital letters is a Function Redefinition, e.g.
DIREC.
7. The [F10] Redefinition key is the door or gearshift clutch for other
Redefinitions: Hitting it will get a screen as follow:
F1 Key: Help Screen for Redefinition Commands
F2 Key: General functions
F3 Key: Color Changing
F4 Key: Quick Change of Directories
F5 Key: Utility Functions
F6 Key: R6 (User Designed Redefinition Setup)
F7 Key: R7
F8 Key: R8
F9 Key: Game directory
F10 Key: Redefinition Command
[Alt] F1 Key: Small help screen for the Redefinitions
[Alt] F2 Key: General Function Setup
[Alt] F3 Key: RA3
[Alt] F4 Key: RA4
[Alt] F5 Key: RA5
[Alt] F6 Key: RA6
[Alt] F7 Key: RA7
[Alt] F8 Key: RA8
[Alt] F9 Key: Changes back to the Key functions, w/ small hlp scr
[Alt] F10 Key: Subdirectory Changing
8. The color changing function keys basically uses the Color.bat file to
direct the prompts to do the actual color changing. The help screen is as
follows:
F1 key: Color Help Screen for these special keys
F2 key: Color (command)
F3 key: Back
F4 key: Black
F5 key: Red
F6 key: Green
F7 key: Brown
F8 key: Blue
F9 key: Magenta
F10 key: Redefine batch command
Alt F1 key: General Color Help Screen
Alt F2 key: Cyan
Alt F3 key: White
Alt F4 key: Normal
Alt F5 key: Bright
Alt F6 key:
Alt F7 key:
Alt F8 key:
Alt F9 key: Initiates the general func command without the help screen
Alt F10 key:
9. The [F2] is not a self executing function key. This will produce the
word Color. Hitting [Enter] will call up the Color help screen for the batch
file that will explain what is necessary to change colors. Basically, this
redefinition setup will use that Color Format, as an example is the command
Color Normal Green BackBlue will give you a Green foreground with a Blue
background. This is accomplished by Hitting [F2], then [Alt][F4], then [F6],
then [F3], and then [F8].
10. The Quick Directory Change setup can also be useful, especially when
dealing with sub-directories. The key is to hit [F4] prior to hitting the
desired directory key. The functions for this are as follows:
F1 Key: Displays this help screen
F2 Key: Displays CD\ (Awaiting directory)
F3 Key: Changes to DOS directory (Used after F4 Key)
F4 Key: Changes to BASICA directory (Used after F3 Key)
F5 Key: Changes to the Root directory
F6 Key: Dir/W
F7 Key: Changes to UTIL directory
F8 Key: Changes to LOTUS directory
F9 Key: Changes to ENABLE directory
F10 Key: Redefinition Command
Alt F1 key: Smaller help screen
Alt F2 key: Goes to your choice (D1) directory
Alt F3 key: Changes to the TEMP directory
Alt F4 key: Displays MD\
Alt F5 key: Changes to the BATCH directory
Alt F6 key: Changes to the ZSTEM directory
Alt F