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- Copyright 1992--Jeffrey W. Spencer
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- Greetings, and welcome to Kset 1.0! Kset is a public domain product, so you
- can send me your loose change, party invitations, deeds to small kingdoms,
- etc. to the following address:
-
- Jeffrey W. Spencer
- Rt. 5 Box 603
- Rolla, MO 65401-9220
-
- I prefer the money and the small kingdoms, but I would really like to hear
- from you, even if it means only a postcard. This is my first public domain
-
- product, so I'm testing the waters.
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- Kset 1.0 is a utility that sets the function keys of your keyboard to user-
- defined commands. It makes use of an external definition file so the keys
- can be changed by simply calling another external file. Kset 1.0 can not
- only be called from the command line, but can be placed in the autoexec.bat
- file to be called at boot time.
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- Installation of Kset 1.0 is quite simple. All you need to do is follow these
- easy steps:
- 1) Make sure that ANSI.SYS is installed according to the directions in
- your dos manual. Kset 1.0 uses ANSI escape sequences and will not
- work without it being installed.
-
- 2) Create a text file of any name in this form:
- 01:cls
- 02:dir /w
- 04:help
- 11:park
- 12:dir /p
- @
- For our purposes we will call this file KSET.DAT. Please make sure
- and add the @ symbol to the end or the program will not function
- properly.
-
- 3) Let's say we have KSET.EXE in our D:\UTIL directory and our KSET.DAT
- in our C:\ (root) directory. To activate Kset 1.0 from the command
- line you would simply type
- D:\UTIL\KSET C:\KSET.DAT
- This will activate Kset 1.0 with the configuration in KSET.DAT.
- In our case it would set the function keys as follows:
- Key Execute
- --- -------
- F1 cls
- F2 dir /w
- F4 help
- F11 park
- F12 dir /p
-
- F1, F2, and F12 use dos internal commands, the other keys are set to
- external EXE files. You can also set a function key to edit certain
- files or to bring up your favorite word processor with a document you wish
- to view. For example, you might want to set F9 and F10 as follows:
- 09:WP D:\DOCS\report.doc
- 10:edlin c:\autoexec.bat
- @
-
- 4) You can also place D:\UTIL\KSET C:\KSET.DAT as a line in your
- autoexec.bat file and it will be called at boot time.
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-
- notes: If you try to set a function key other than F1-F12 the program
- will abort when it reaches that key. All previous definitions
- within that file will still be in effect.
-
- If you do not have F11 or F12 and try to set them nothing will
- happen. Execution will continue uninterrupted.
-
- Calling a new key configuration file will not reset the keys
- that were previously defined if they are not defined in the
- new file.
-
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- Intended Updates:
-
- I do plan on updating Kset. Here are some of my plans:
- 1) detect ansi.sys and abort if not installed
- 2) allow multiple commands for a function key
- 3) an exe file that creates your data files for you
- 4) detecting whether the F11 and F12 keys exist and
- printing an error msg if they are assigned and don't
- exist.
-
- I also plan on creating a new exe that will allow the entire keyboard to
- be redefined.
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- Thank you for your interest in Kset 1.0 and I hope I hear from you!
-
- --Jeffrey W. Spencer
-
-