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NEWKEY
EVALUATION GUIDE
A Keyboard Enhancer for
The IBM Personal Computer
Version 5.4
(C)Copyright Frank A. Bell, 1984-1990
All rights reserved.
Frank Bell
Compuserve id 75206,1366
FAB Software
P.O. Box 336
Wayland, MA 01778
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 1984-1990 by Frank A. Bell. All rights reserved.
The Newkey 5.4 programs may be copied subject to the restrictions
listed in 'Permission to Copy'.
This documentation is designed to accompany the Newkey evaluation disk
and does not fully document Newkey and its features. The latest
version of Newkey, a printed manual, plus other benefits come with
Newkey when ordered. For further information refer to the section on
registration later in this documentation.
If any portion of the evaluation disk is missing, a complete
evaluation disk is available for $10. Use the order form at the end
of this documentation. Please do not send disks.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
NEWKEY INTRODUCTION.......................................... 1
PRINTING THE NEWKEY MANUAL................................... 2
TAKING A GUIDED TOUR OF NEWKEY............................... 3
THE USER-SUPPORTED CONCEPT................................... 3
USER-SUPPORTED SOFTWARE AND DISK VENDORS..................... 3
RESTRICTED PERMISSION TO COPY................................ 4
FILES ON THE NEWKEY DISK..................................... 5
LIMITED WARRANTY............................................. 6
REGISTRATION................................................. 7
ORDER FORM................................................... 8
NEWKEY INTRODUCTION
We believe that at $43.00, $20 - $250 below comparable commercial
programs, Newkey is one of the great bargains on the market today.
How many high quality, useful software programs can be purchased for
$43? We hope that after you have had a chance to try out Newkey for
yourself you agree and decide to become a reqistered user.
PURPOSE
The Newkey keyboard enhancer simplifies the entry of common keystroke
sequences by allowing these sequences to be assigned to any key
desired. Once assigned to a particular key, whenever that key is
struck the predefined sequence of keystrokes will be returned in place
of the struck key. For example, the alt c key might be defined as
'copy' and whenever alt c is struck the string 'copy' will be
returned.
Newkey allows customization of software packages, ready creation of
boiler plate passages, help menus, keyboard redefinition, cursor speed
up, screen blanker, extended keyboard buffer, and other useful
purposes. Several sample key definition files are included with
Newkey and will be described later.
Newkey 5.4 provides many features including:
- Ability to define almost any key
- Menu macros
- Display macros
- Fixed length pauses during key translation
- Nested key translation
- Translation bypass for native entry of defined key
- Dynamic display of the macro directory
- Dynamic display of macros
- Full featured macro editor
- Easily change any macro
- Copy/Move one macro to another
- Move keyboard buffer into macro
- Load, merge and save macro files from within other applications
- Shorthand mode, Newkey watches your keystrokes and when they
match a macro name, automatically plays back the macro. No
special hot key to enter, no wasted keystrokes.
- Date/time macro function, define your own date & time templates
and let Newkey fill them in for you
- Fast key option allows fast cursor movement and key repetition
- Use Newkey's pop-up features in graphics mode
- Compatible with new IBM's new 'enhanced keyboard'
- Guard macros from accidental deletion
- Inactivate macros
- Save/load file overwrite warning messages
- Disk wait during macro playback
- Screen on/off macro function
- Enhanced compatibility with other programs
- Suppress Newkey created keycodes which collide with other program
- Keyboard click
- Beep during macro definition
- Cursor change during macro definition/playback made optional
- Customize Newkey's menu colors
- Screen blanker works with EGA
- Dynamic modification of the control keys
- Dynamic clear macros from memory
- User defined dynamic define area length
- Time delay pauses during key translation
- Toggle Newkey on/off
- Slow typing mode
- Cancel Newkey processing at any time during playback or definition
- Macro may call itself
- Screen saver feature to blank screen after period of inactivity
- Ability to define a macro within a macro
- Multi-character macro names
- Improved screen saver that works with most hardware and software
- Macro descriptions
- 128 keystroke typeahead buffer
- Speed up keyboard repetition rate
- Improved macro definition facilities, including
- Defining status line
- Macro already defined warning message
- Defining alphabetic character warning message
- Display/execute macro commands from menus as well as
from control keys
- Macro definition window
- Call Newkey from its own macros
- Cut & paste
- Support for DOS 2.0 path names
- and many more
Newkeysp 5.4, the Newkey support program, provides many functions
including:
- Saving macros to disk from memory
- Loading macros from disk to memory
- Merging macros from disk to memory
- Directory display of keys with translations
- Individual display of key translations
- Easy modification of Newkey control keys
- Clear macros from memory
- Toggle Newkey on/off
- Execute macros from a batch file
- Unload and reclaim memory under DOS 2.0
- Be called from Newkey macros
- Display macros and their descriptions
PRINTING THE NEWKEY MANUAL
If you wish you may print the full Newkey manual (assuming it's on
your disk, which it may not be) by issuing the following command:
copy newkey.man lpt1
The manual is about 100 pages long.
TAKING A GUIDED TOUR OF NEWKEY
The guided tour demonstrates many of Newkey 5.4's major features and
uses Newkey macros extensively. To start the guided tour type 'demo'
at the DOS command prompt and press enter. The demo will load Newkey,
load the demo.key macro file, and start the tour.
THE USER-SUPPORTED CONCEPT
User-supported Software
User-supported software (also known as "shareware") is an experi