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- ONEKEY Steven Holzner
- Command (after running .BAS version)PC Magazine Vol 4, No 9
- Copyright 1985 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
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- Purpose: Reassigns a designated series of keystrokes
- to a user-selected keystroke.
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- Format: ONEKEY
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- Remarks: ONEKEY is a memory-resident keyboard macro
- program. While written in assembly language,
- it is presented here with a BASIC interface
- that need be run only once, but which
- facilitates entering the trigger keys you
- want to use and the sequences of keystrokes
- they will replace. ONEKEY will accept up to
- 30 different trigger keys, each of which will
- replace up to 50 keystrokes.
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- When you load and run ONEKEY.BAS in BASIC,
- you will prompted to "Type the key to be
- replaced." This will be a key you use as a
- trigger: Ctrl-N, Alt-Z, F1, or the like.
- When you enter this key, you will be
- prompted, "The command that replaces this key
- is." Here you enter the string of keystrokes
- the selected trigger key will execute.
- Remember to include all necessary carriage
- returns, spaces, and control characters, just
- as you would enter them at the keyboard.
- When you type Ctrl-End (not a carriage
- return) to terminate this sequence, you'll be
- prompted for the next trigger key, and so on.
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- When you have typed in as many macros as you
- want, type Ctrl-End when asked for a trigger
- key. It takes BASIC about half a minute to
- create the ONEKEY.COM file.
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- Once created, ONEKEY is a regular DOS
- command; you enter it at the DOS prompt (or
- as a line in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file), not
- from BASIC.
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- Notes:
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- 1. Memory-resident utilities such as ONEKEY
- are often incompatible with programs
- (XyWrite is one) that themselves take
- over the keyboard interrupts. You must
- simply experiment to see if ONEKEY can
- be used with your software.
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- 2. Requires DOS 2.0 or later.
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