RE-MAP THE 100LX KEYBOARD 100LX

KEY100.ZIP (ON DISK) written by Andy Gryc of HP, is a TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program for HP 100LX that allows you to re-map the keyboard and to create keyboard macros. It will not work on the HP 95LX since it uses hardware capabilities specific to the HP 100LX.

The keyboard macro feature can add some of 95Buddy's features to the 100LX. For example, to simplify paging through lots of text, you can make the Fn key sticky while using PgUp or PgDn. After pressing (Fn)- (<Down>) once, you can continue to press (<Down>) without pressing (Fn) again.

The documentation for KEY100 shows you how these work.

Steve Roth

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[KEY100 (ON DISK) macros work in DOS, system macros don't. KEY100 also lets you override the standard blue key assignments, e.g. cc: Mail.

However, from the user's point of view, system macros are just as key-stroke efficient. System macros are far easier to modify than KEY100 macros, and they do not have any unexpected side effects as KEY100 macros can. KEY100.DOC (ON DISK) on the 1993 Subscribers Disk contains more KEY100 tips and sample macros.

For those interested in redefining your keyboard for foreign character sets see KEYBEZ.100 in the D:\ BIN directory of your 100LX, and look at Appendix E in the 100LX User's Guide -- Ed Keefe.]