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- FAKEY
-
- Keyboard Phantom Typist
-
- Version 1.0
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-
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- (C) COPYRIGHT 1986 by System Enhancement Associates; ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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- FAKEY is used to fake sequences of keystrokes. It is especially useful in
- batch files, where it can be used to "pre-load" input for programs. It is
- faking it at the point where BIOS is called. It will not affect programs
- that bypass BIOS for their input. FAKEY can fake keyboard input for almost
- any program, except for certain resident utilities.
-
-
- FAKEY takes one or more arguments, separated by spaces. Each argument can
- be any one of the following:
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- 1) A text literal enclosed in quotes. See below.
-
- 2) A decimal number, indicating the ASCII value of a character.
-
- 3) A hexadecimal number of up to four digits, preceeded by an ampersand.
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- 4) A mnemonic value indicating a particular keystroke.
-
- None of these are case sensitive, except literal text in quotes. Hex
- digits, mnemonics, and so forth can be entered in any combination of upper
- and lower case.
-
- If an argument indicates a character value, then the character value is
- filled out to include a scan code value. Where more than one scan code is
- possible (such as Backspace or Ctrl H), the more "conventional" choice is
- made (ie. Backspace instead of Ctrl H, top row instead of number pad, etc.)
-
- A text literal is enclosed in quotes, and may contain special sequences.
- The special sequences currently defined are:
-
- 1) An uparrow followed by a character from A to Z (in this case really "at
- sign" to "underline"), indicating the equivalent control key.
-
- 2) An exclamation mark followed by a digit or a character from A to Z,
- indicating the equivalent alter key.
-
- 3) A backslash followed by another character. Defined uses are:
-
- a) \r for a return or enter
- b) \t for a tab
- c) \b for a backspace
- d) \e for an escape
- e) \anything else, for a literal character. Thus \" is a quote, \\
- is a backslash, \! is an exclamation mark, etc.
-
-
- A mnemonic can be an uparrow, exclamation mark, or backslash followed by a
- character, in which case it means the same thing as in a text literal. The
- following additional mnemonics are also defined:
-
- Standard ASCII mnemonics:
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- NUL SOH STX ETX EOT ENQ ACK BEL
- BS HT LF VT FF CR SO SI
- DLE DC1 DC2 DC3 DC4 NAK SYN ETB
- CAN EM SUB ESC FS GS RS US
- SP DEL
-
- Cursor movement keypad mnemonics:
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- UP DOWN LEFT RITE HOME END PGUP PGDN
-
- Function key mnemonics:
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- Fn for normal
- Sn for shifted
- Cn for control
- An for alter
-
- Where "n" is a number from 1 to 10. Ie. A10 means Alt F10.
-
- Special mnemonics:
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- TOSS Causes all previous pending keystrokes to be thrown
- away. Does not affect the sequence being defined.
-
- WAIT <n> Causes a pause for <n> seconds in the input stream.
- Keystrokes will not appear to be available for the
- duration of the wait. The maximum wait is 255 seconds.
-
- BOOT Causes a warm system boot, as if the user had typed
- "Ctrl-Alt-Del".
-
-
- Notes on special mnemonics:
-
- The TOSS mnemonic takes effect at the point where FAKEY is run. It
- serves to discard faked keystrokes which an earlier program didn't use.
-
- The other special mnemonics take effect at the point where they are
- first scanned by the operating system. This is not always when you
- might think. DOS (along with many applications programs) scans the
- keyboard buffer to see if anything is pending at many points, so things
- may take effect sooner than you would expect. For example, if your
- batch file contained:
-
- fakey ^C
- myprog
-
- then "myprog" would not be run. DOS would check the keyboard after
- running FAKEY and before running the next program, and see the pending
- control C. Your batch file would stop while DOS asks:
-
- Terminate batch file (y/n)?
-
- You probably don't want that. So instead, you should say:
-
- fakey wait 1 ^C
- myprog
-
- This would cause a one second delay before the control C shows up in
- the keyboard buffer.
-
- If this doesn't make sense, then don't worry too much. This is all
- meant to address a few special cases which don't normally arise.
-
-
- Example:
-
- Here's an example of a batch file to delete all of the files in a
- directory, without waiting for DOS to ask for confirmation:
-
- fakey "y\r"
- del %1
- fakey toss
-
- Assuming you named the file ZAPDIR.BAT, then typing ZAPDIR X would give
- the DOS command "del X". When DOS stops to ask "Are you sure?", it
- will think you pressed "y", and continue.
-
- In this example we ended the file with "fakey toss". This is so that
- if DOS doesn't ask for confirmation (maybe X is a file instead of a
- directory), the "y" won't be left hanging around.
-
-
-
- Hexadecimal literals:
-
- These can be used to fake any keystroke whatsoever. Use the table
- following to pick out the keystroke you want. For example, a shifted
- keypad 5 would be:
-
- fakey &4C35
-
- A table entry of "--" means you can't get that combination out of BIOS.
-
-
-
- BIOS keystroke codes, hexadecimal
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- Key Normal Shift Control Alter
-
- Esc 011B 011B 011B --
- 1! 0231 '1' 0221 '!' -- 7800
- 2@ 0332 '2' 0340 '@' 0300 7900
- 3# 0433 '3' 0423 '#' -- 7A00
- 4$ 0534 '4' 0524 '$' -- 7B00
- 5% 0635 '5' 0625 '%' -- 7C00
- 6^ 0736 '6' 075E '^' 071E 7D00
- 7& 0837 '7' 0826 '&' -- 7E00
- 8* 0938 '8' 092A '*' -- 7F00
- 9( 0A39 '9' 0A28 '(' -- 8000
- 0) 0B30 '0' 0B29 ')' -- 8100
- -_ 0C2D '-' 0C5F '_' 0C1F 8200
- =+ 0D3D '=' 0D2B '+' -- 8300
- BkSpc 0E08 0E08 0E7F --
- tab 0F09 0F00 -- --
- q 1071 'q' 1051 'Q' 1011 1000
- w 1177 'w' 1157 'W' 1117 1100
- e 1265 'e' 1245 'E' 1205 1200
- r 1372 'r' 1352 'R' 1312 1300
- t 1474 't' 1454 'T' 1414 1400
- y 1579 'y' 1559 'Y' 1519 1500
- u 1675 'u' 1655 'U' 1615 1600
- i 1769 'i' 1749 'I' 1709 1700
- o 186F 'o' 184F 'O' 180F 1800
- p 1970 'p' 1950 'P' 1910 1900
- [{ 1A5B '[' 1A7B '{' 1A1B --
- ]} 1B5D ']' 1B7D '}' 1B1D --
- enter 1C0D 1C0D 1C0A --
- Ctrl -- -- -- --
- a 1E61 'a' 1E41 'A' 1E01 1E00
- s 1F73 's' 1F53 'S' 1F13 1F00
- d 2064 'd' 2044 'D' 2004 2000
- f 2166 'f' 2146 'F' 2106 2100
- g 2267 'g' 2247 'G' 2207 2200
- h 2368 'h' 2348 'H' 2308 2300
- j 246A 'j' 244A 'J' 240A 2400
- k 256B 'k' 254B 'K' 250B 2500
- l 266C 'l' 264C 'L' 260C 2600
- ;: 273B ';' 273A ':' -- --
- '" 2827 ''' 2822 '"' -- --
- `~ 2960 '`' 297E '~' -- --
- l shift -- -- -- --
- \| 2B5C '\' 2B7C '|' 2B1C --
- z 2C7A 'z' 2C5A 'Z' 2C1A 2C00
- x 2D78 'x' 2D58 'X' 2D18 2D00
- c 2E63 'c' 2E43 'C' 2E03 2E00
- v 2F76 'v' 2F56 'V' 2F16 2F00
- b 3062 'b' 3042 'B' 3002 3000
- n 316E 'n' 314E 'N' 310E 3100
- m 326D 'm' 324D 'M' 320D 3200
- ,< 332C ',' 333C '<' -- --
- .> 342E '.' 343E '>' -- --
- /? 352F '/' 353F '?' -- --
- r shift -- -- -- --
- PrtSc 372A '*' -- 7200 --
- Alt -- -- -- --
- spacebar 3920 ' ' 3920 ' ' 3920 ' ' 3920 ' '
- CapsLock -- -- -- --
- F1 3B00 5400 5E00 6800
- F2 3C00 5500 5F00 6900
- F3 3D00 5600 6000 6A00
- F4 3E00 5700 6100 6B00
- F5 3F00 5800 6200 6C00
- F6 4000 5900 6300 6D00
- F7 4100 5A00 6400 6E00
- F8 4200 5B00 6500 6F00
- F9 4300 5C00 6600 7000
- F10 4400 5D00 6700 7100
- NumLock -- -- -- --
- Scroll -- -- -- --
- 7 Home 4700 4737 '7' 7700 --
- 8 up 4800 4838 '8' -- --
- 9 PgUp 4900 4939 '9' 8400 --
- grey - 4A2D '-' 4A2D '-' -- --
- 4 left 4B00 4B34 '4' 7300 --
- 5 -- 4C35 '5' -- --
- 6 right 4D00 4D36 '6' 7400 --
- grey + 4E2B '+' 4E2B '+' -- --
- 1 End 4F00 4F31 '1' 7500 --
- 2 down 5000 5032 '2' -- --
- 3 PgDn 5100 5133 '3' 7600 --
- Ins 5200 5230 '0' -- --
- Del 5300 532E '.' -- --
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