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- BIGBUF.COM June 1992 Challenge
- Solved
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- Usage: Load BIGBUF in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file to run.
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- Comments: The February 1992 Challenge invited you to overcom
- DOS's 15-character keyboard buffer limit. Although
- shareware programs can do this, we try to provide
- solutions that you can type in and use immediately.
-
- Our winning entry comes from 13-year-old Charles
- Lepple of Alexandria, Virginia, who submitted a
- DEBUG script that extends the keyboard buffer.
- We've enhanced his so lution to include some
- error-trapping code.
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- Notes: BIGBUF is a TSR that used 512 bytes of RAM and must
- be loaded somewhere in the first 64k of conventional
- memory due to BIOS restrictions. If BIGBUF is loaded
- higher, it displays the message, "Error: BIGBUF must
- be loaded lower", and does not extend the buffer. If
- BIGBUF complains that it must be loaded lower, do so
- by loading it eearlier in the startup sequence. That
- is, make it the first or second TSR rather than the
- tenth. If all goes well, BIGBUF will report:
- "Keyboard buffer extended to 127 characters."
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