Re: Re Keystrokes: Possible BIOS compatibility

["M.W. Poirier" poirmw@xxxxxxxx]

 Robert:

 I do have the DLG file, except that it is Tim Baehr's enhanced
 version called COMPACT. It gives me a different menu system from
 the one you are seeing on your screen. The Baehr version is a menu
 system which I tend to like better.

 In any case, I'll have a look at the regular version of *.DLG and
 remind myself about what it looked like. It's been so long
 since I've seen it that I can't recall anything about it. More-
 over, there is likely a way of adapting the Baehr version to the
 regular version in areas that count. I'll get back to you
 after I have have had the time to figure out what I need to do.
 It may very well be that I am more committed to the Baehr version
 than to my need to run KEYSTROKES. As I said, I did not even
 realise that KEYSTROKES existed till a few days ago. Many thanks as
 always.

 M.

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On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Robert Holmgren wrote:

>
> ** Reply to message from "M.W. Poirier"  on Tue, 26
> Jul 2005 09:01:32 -0400 (EDT)
>
>
> > I'm not absolutely certain that I understand what is meant
> > by "add two character function...."
>
> The purpose of KEYSTROKES is to report all the functions that have been
> assigned to a key in your KBD file, correlating each function to the name of
> its assigned key. All functions (BC, XC, DF, etc) consist of two characters.
> If my premise is correct (as Patricia's info suggested) that the routine fails
> when it hits tries to determine the keyboard assignment for a certain function,
> then the SOLUTION is to exclude that particular function(s) from being
> determined. So when I say "<==Add 2-char funcs to EXCLUDE here, in format
> "|MS|AA|BB|CC|"etc.", well, it means what it says. Add any and all funcs that
> cause a trap to the list of excluded functions.
>
> > However, I do not get
> > much of a chance to do anything of this sort, since immediately
> > when I issue the command "run ," the following appears
> > in the message area: "too many program calls"
>
> OK. That means one of three things: either the routine was DECODEd badly, or
> you don't have DLG loaded, or frame "1b" (which lists the 105 key names) is
> absent from DLG. Now, I assume that DLG, at least the short "Mini" version, is
> loaded on every system. It certainly should be -- there's stuff in there that
> XyWrite needs!
>
> If you don't have DLG, get it here:
>  http://www.xywrite.com/xy4/xy4supp/xy4_dlg.zip
> then LOAD it via STARTUP.INT (BX load d:\path\xy4.dlgQ2 ;*;)
>
> I've added a check for DLG and frame 1b in this debugging version, which is
> attached to this msg (as KEYSTROK.PM). Just save it within your EMail client,
> then RUN it.
>
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> Robert Holmgren
> holmgren@xxxxxxxx
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