Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?
Hi, KEYB implements such a bigger secondary buffer whenever you use STRINGS, as 16 characters is too few to decently support placing strings. True that you need the overhead of the STRING subsystem if you want this secondary buffer. I'd study to allow you to use the secondary buffer independently of strings, but as far as I know, there haven't been many requests to do this, so it has low priority at the moment... (there are many other things to do first I guess). Aitor Carl Spitzer escribió: Why the limit of 16?? That's the size of the typeahead buffer maintained by the BIOS (I think that's what maintains it anyway). I guess you could work around that limitation with a TSR that continually polled to find out if there was any room in the buffer and added additional characters once room was available (due to the application reading the keystrokes). That is what I was thinking about I am surprised that FreeDOS has not done that yet. CWSIV --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=110944bid=241720dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?
Hi there, Oops, it seems to point to me ;-) The keyboard buffer is a BIOS resource, and it many cases DOS (standard CON device) just relies on BIOS to do this work. BIOS extensions to the BIOS keyboard handling (namely KEYB) could easily implement this, but: - I try myself to recycle BIOS stuff as much as possible and rewrite less - I haven't felt the need to do it When you are using STRINGS in KEYB, then a secondary bigger buffer is used (from which info is transfered to the primary BIOS one), but it is because your strings can be big enough. I'll annotate it within KEYB wishes to be able to use this secondary bigger buffer with a KEYB switch. Cheers, Aitor On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 19:18 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 5-ÄÕÒ-2006 19:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Spitzer) wrote to FreeDOS freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: following constants and function allow a program to place up to 16 two-byte characters in the keyboard buffer. When the program exits Why the limit of 16?? That's the size of the typeahead buffer maintained by the BIOS (I think CS That is what I was thinking about I am surprised that FreeDOS has not CS done that yet. Why you think that it should done this? Increase the typeahead buffer size. CWSIV --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user --- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid0944bid$1720dat1642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 19:18 +0300, Arkady V.Belousov wrote: Hi! 5-Фев-2006 19:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Spitzer) wrote to FreeDOS freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: following constants and function allow a program to place up to 16 two-byte characters in the keyboard buffer. When the program exits Why the limit of 16?? That's the size of the typeahead buffer maintained by the BIOS (I think CS That is what I was thinking about I am surprised that FreeDOS has not CS done that yet. Why you think that it should done this? Increase the typeahead buffer size. CWSIV --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?
Hi Carl, From: Carl Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2006 19:47:12 -0800 I programmed something like this and it might do what you want. The following constants and function allow a program to place up to 16 two-byte characters in the keyboard buffer. When the program exits (without reading any of the characters, of course) DOS will execute the command as though it had been typed. Why the limit of 16?? That's the size of the typeahead buffer maintained by the BIOS (I think that's what maintains it anyway). I guess you could work around that limitation with a TSR that continually polled to find out if there was any room in the buffer and added additional characters once room was available (due to the application reading the keystrokes). That is what I was thinking about I am surprised that FreeDOS has not done that yet. Check out http://short.stop.home.att.net/freesoft/keyb.htm There are tools there that provide 124 or 64K characters. Maybe 16 isn't the BIOS limit after all? It sounds like the tool that supports 64K characters is a TSR, but the 124 character one probably isn't so maybe THAT is what the BIOS limit is? Or perhaps that is more related to the maximum length of the DOS command line? Regards, David --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?
On Mon, 2006-01-23 at 20:26 +1030, David O'Shea wrote: Hi Carl, From: Carl Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:13 -0500, Jim Lemon wrote: I programmed something like this and it might do what you want. The following constants and function allow a program to place up to 16 two-byte characters in the keyboard buffer. When the program exits (without reading any of the characters, of course) DOS will execute the command as though it had been typed. Why the limit of 16?? That's the size of the typeahead buffer maintained by the BIOS (I think that's what maintains it anyway). I guess you could work around that limitation with a TSR that continually polled to find out if there was any room in the buffer and added additional characters once room was available (due to the application reading the keystrokes). That is what I was thinking about I am surprised that FreeDOS has not done that yet. CWSIV --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?
Hi! 5-Фев-2006 19:47 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Spitzer) wrote to FreeDOS freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: following constants and function allow a program to place up to 16 two-byte characters in the keyboard buffer. When the program exits Why the limit of 16?? That's the size of the typeahead buffer maintained by the BIOS (I think CS That is what I was thinking about I am surprised that FreeDOS has not CS done that yet. Why you think that it should done this? --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?
Hi Carl, From: Carl Spitzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] On Wed, 2005-12-28 at 21:13 -0500, Jim Lemon wrote: I programmed something like this and it might do what you want. The following constants and function allow a program to place up to 16 two-byte characters in the keyboard buffer. When the program exits (without reading any of the characters, of course) DOS will execute the command as though it had been typed. Why the limit of 16?? That's the size of the typeahead buffer maintained by the BIOS (I think that's what maintains it anyway). I guess you could work around that limitation with a TSR that continually polled to find out if there was any room in the buffer and added additional characters once room was available (due to the application reading the keystrokes). Regards, David --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnkkid=103432bid=230486dat=121642 ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?
Jim Lemon schreef: Andrew Greenberg wrote: 4DOS has a nifty command called keystack which allows you to insert key strokes into the keyboard buffer. This is handy for controlling DOS programs which you can't script from the command line. Does FreeDOS have anything like this? Or does anyone have any ideas for how I might be able to go about automating sending keystrokes to a DOS program? 4DOS is freeware nowadays, but it's a rather huge program. simpler programs could be preferred thus. Bernd --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS utility to insert keystrokes in the keyboard buffer?
Hi! 27-Дек-2005 16:36 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew Greenberg) wrote to freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net: AG 4DOS has a nifty command called keystack which allows you to insert key AG Does FreeDOS have anything like this? Or does anyone have any ideas for how AG I might be able to go about automating sending keystrokes to a DOS program? http://home.t-online.de/home/K_meinhard/tools/gl_keys.zip KEYS is a keystroke stacking program compatible with the 4DOS KEYSTACK command. It can be used as a replacement for the 4DOS KSTACK utility. KEYS comes with complete source, has a smaller resident size than the 4DOS KSTACK program, implements a more flexible command line syntax than the 4DOS KEYSTACK command, and is freely redistributable. --- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Do you grep through log files for problems? Stop! Download the new AJAX search engine that makes searching your log files as easy as surfing the web. DOWNLOAD SPLUNK! http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=7637alloc_id=16865op=click ___ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
