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- KBX
- Command
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- Jeff Prosise 1987/No. 16(Lab Notes)
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- Purpose: Allows entering extended-ASCII line-drawing, foreign language,
- math, and science symbols from within word processing programs and editors
- that would not otherwise support them.
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- Format: [d:][path]KBX
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- Remarks: KBX is a memory-resident utility and is normally
- loaded as one of the command lines in your AUTOEXEC.BAT file. At any point
- after loading, pressing Alt-Space pops up a window that displays the normal
- PC keyboard layout. While this window is on-screen, pressing NumLock shows
- the key locations for one of the two extended-ASCII sets; pressing ScrollLock
- similarly displays the other extended-ASCII set. Esc closes the display and
- returns to any active applications program.
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- To enter the extended-ASCII characters, hold down the NumLock (or
- ScrollLock) key and press the key at the approriate position. Note that the
- single-line (NumLock) and double-line (ScrollLock) box-drawing characters are
- arranged around the outside of the numeric keypad.
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- Using the NumLock and ScrollLock keys as additional "shift" keys
- avoids conflicts with applications programs that normally use Alt-key and
- Ctrl-key combinations. The normal Ctrl-NumLock (pause) and Ctrl-ScrollLock
- (break) combinations continue to work without change. When KBX is loaded,
- however, Shift-NumLock and Shift-ScrollLock are used to toggle the NumLock
- and ScrollLock states.
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- KBX is not compatible with word processors that normally make use of
- the 8th ("high") bit for their own purposes (e.g., WordStar) or that utilize
- their own keyboard handlers (e.g., XyWrite). Only experimentation will show
- whether the program will work with a given editor.
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- Note: Since different printers vary in the characters they output when
- presented with extended-ASCII codes, you must determine either from your
- manual or by experiment whether your printer's character set is compatible
- with that PC.
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