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Documentation for SETKEY.EXE
SETKEY Version 2.00 (C)Copyright T A Davis, 1983
SETKEY is a program that lets the user redefine the keyboard. To use
this program, you must have DEVICE=ANSI.SYS in your configuration file
(CONFIG.SYS - ANSI.SYS is included on the DOS 2.00 system disk.) Both
ANSI.SYS and CONFIG.SYS must be present on the default drive when the
system is booted.
Use of setkey.
To use SETKEY, just type SETKEY |<filename> (the <filename> is optional.)
If <filename> is not specified, or if SETKEY cannot locate <filename>, it
will ask you for a filename to use. This file must be present in the
current directory of the specified drive.
If the file does not currently exist, SETKEY will ask if it should be
created. Reply 'Y' to create <filename>. If the file does exist,
SETKEY will use <filename> to redefine the keyboard.
If the file did not exist, SETKEY will ask you to press the key to
redefine. Then it will ask for the text to assign to the key. To end
this key definition process, enter ^Z (F6 or CTRL-Z) at the prompt for
'KEY ' You may include carriage returns in the text to assign to the key
by pressing [RETURN] and the program will display (C/R) and go on to
the next key. If you do not desire to include a carriage return in the
key definition, press ^Z (F6 or CTRL-Z) to indicate the end of the text for
the key.
After the key definition process is complete, the program will ask whether
you desire to re-define these keys now. Press Y to do so.
After you have created the a definition file, you may enter SETKEY <filename>
at any time to define the keyboard to the definitions contained in the file.
Further notes.
There is a limit of 128 characters that may be assigned to keys. SETKEY
will not allow the creation of a file containing more than 128 characters.
Instead, if you enter more than 128 characters, SETKEY will create a file
containing the definitions for all keys prior to the key definition which
exceeded 128 bytes.
You must end each line of text you enter as a definition with either a
space or a carriage return.
You may create as many definitions as you wish and re-define the keys
as often as you wish. If you get unexpected results, re-boot your system.
Unfortunately, DOS provides no way other than re-booting to un-re-define
the keyboard.
ed results, re-boot your system.
Unfortunately, DOS provides no