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K K SSSSS EEEEEE TTTTTTTTT
K K S S E T
K K S E T
KK SSSSS EEEEEE T
K K S E T
K K S S E T
K K SSSSS EEEEEE T
Copyright 1993--Jeffrey W. Spencer
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Greetings, and welcome to Kset 1.5! Kset is a shareware. Please feel free
to try Kset for 30 days. If you decide that you like Kset and would like
to continue using it, please register Kset by mailing the included
registration form and $5.00 U.S. currency (no cash please) for each
machine Kset will reside upon to the address below:
Jeffrey W. Spencer
Rt. 5 Box 603
Rolla, MO 65401-9220
Please feel free to send any questions, suggestions, or comments you might
have about Kset. Kset is in it's early stages, and I would like to know
what you would like to see in later versions.
For all of those that register, as new versions of Kset are released, I will
mail out upgrades on either a 5.25" or 3.5" diskette (see registration).
Mail support is also available to those that register. I can be reached
at the above address or by Compuserve or Internet mail at the addresses
below. Please feel free to mail me anytime with your questions about Kset.
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Kset 1.5 is a utility that sets the function keys of your keyboard to user-
defined commands. It makes use of an external definition file so the keys
can be changed by simply calling another external file. Kset 1.5 can not
only be called from the command line, but can be placed in the autoexec.bat
file to be called at boot time.
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Installation of Kset 1.5 is quite simple. All you need to do is follow these
easy steps:
1) Make sure that ANSI.SYS is installed according to the directions in
your dos manual. Kset 1.5 uses ANSI escape sequences and will not
work without it being installed.
2) Create a text file of any name in this form:
1 cls
2 dir /w
4 help
11 park
12 dir /p
For our purposes we will call this file KSET.DAT.
3) Let's say we have KSET.EXE in our D:\UTIL directory and our KSET.DAT
in our C:\ (root) directory. To activate Kset 1.5 from the command
line you would simply type
D:\UTIL\KSET C:\KSET.DAT
This will activate Kset 1.5 with the configuration in KSET.DAT.
In our case it would set the function keys as follows:
Key Execute
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F1 cls
F2 dir /w
F4 help
F11 park
F12 dir /p
F1, F2, and F12 use dos internal commands, the other keys are set to
external EXE files. You can also set a function key to edit certain
files or to bring up your favorite word processor with a document you
wish to view. For example, you might want to set F9 and F10 as
follows:
9 WP D:\DOCS\report.doc
10 edlin c:\autoexec.bat
4) You can also place D:\UTIL\KSET C:\KSET.DAT as a line in your
autoexec.bat file and it will be called at boot time.
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notes: If you try to set a function key other than F1-F12 the program
will report an error and continue with the next key setting.
If you do not have F11 or F12 and try to set them nothing will
happen. Execution will continue uninterrupted.
Calling a new key configuration file will not reset the keys
that were previously defined if they are not defined in the
new file.
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Intended Updates:
I do plan on updating Kset. Here are some of my plans:
1) detect ansi.sys and abort if not installed
2) allow multiple commands for a function key
3) an exe file that creates your data files for you
4) detecting whether the F11 and F12 keys exist and
printing an error msg if they are assigned and don't
exist.
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Thank you for your interest in Kset 1.5 and I hope I hear from you!
--Jeffrey W. Spencer
COMPUSERVE: 72202,3260
INTERNET: 72202.3260@compuserve.com