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Q W I K K E Y
A Keyboard Redefinition Program
V1.1 20-Sep-1983
Copyright (c) 1983 by Tony Fleig
QWIKKEY may be used for non-commercial purposes only.
No commercial use of QWIKKEY may be made without the
author's express written permission.
QWIKKEY allows any key(s) on your keyboard to be replaced
by a character string of your choosing. The string can be
anything, but would most usefully be a frequently issued
command. Keys may be defined at any time, even while you are
running a program (except WORDSTAR, in this version at least).
Key definitions remain across warm boots, but are lost on cold
boots; the utility is meant to be used on-the-fly, to define
commands as you need them, rather than redefining a set of keys
for a particular program.
Install QWIKKEY by running the QWIKKEY.COM program (e.g.
A>QWIKKEY - this will have to be done after each cold boot).
QWIKKEY will then prompt for an "attention" character.
This is the character which will signal QWIKKEY that you wish to
enter a new key definition. The best choice for this character
is a character that is not used for any other purpose (commonly
a control character). QWIKKEY positions itself just below the
CCP and intercepts all console input, looking for defined
characters. After running QWIKKEY, no characters are defined,
so your system should behave just as it did before.
To define a key, enter the attention character - QWIKKEY
will prompt with: "Key:". At this point, press the key you
wish to define (control keys are generally popular for
redefinition). After echoing the key entered, followed by "=",
QWIKKEY will now wait for the definition. Definitions may
contain any character including carriage returns, line feeds
etc. (note that a carriage return is echoed as "^M" and line
feed as "^J") except ^Z. ^Z is used to terminate the definition.
Example:
A>Key: ^A = PIP A:=B:*.*[V]^M <--- ^Z here to end
If you want to remove a definition, simply define a key to
be itself. There is a limit of 16 definitions of 30 characters
each.
QWIKKEY Page 2
This is version 1.1, and was really done just to see if the
concept was valid. It appears to work fine, with some
drawbacks: XSUB thinks it's already loaded if QWIKKEY is
installed, and therefore is unusable, WORDSTAR overwrites the
CCP and everything below it as far as I can tell, wiping out
QWIKKEY, and itself in the process. There must be other things
that are broken by QWIKKEY V1.1 that I haven't discovered. For
V2.0, I plan to include the ability to store key definitions in
a file and retrieve them at will, and the capability of handling
keys that generate escape sequences, such as the alternate
keypad mode of the DEC VT100 terminal. It also occurs to me
that this same technique could be applied to output as well as
input, allowing a program to send, for example, escape sequences
peculiar to the Lier-Siegler ADM-3A, but have the corresponding
VT100 escape sequences delivered to the console terminal.
My thanks to Gary Novosielski for the relocation
technique used in version 3.0 of his UNSPOOL program.