Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wasatch!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!portal!cup.portal.com!Ordania-DM From: Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit Subject: Textpro 3.2r Message-ID: <20909@cup.portal.com> Date: 1 Aug 89 04:14:21 GMT Organization: The Portal System (TM) Lines: 72 Textpro 3.2r Fix This fix is for all the nuts out there (myself included) who have managed to restore the function keys to their XL/XE computers. The 4 function keys appeared briefly on the 1200xl computer and then disappeared from future machines. They act as the arrow keys but control does not have to be held down, they also have a few other functions, but those are useless in Textpro. The code to support these function keys did not disappear and still exists in working order in the new roms. That's the good news...now the bad, Textpro (any version) does not recognize these function keys. This is not good, I restored my function keys because I wanted to be able to use them as arrow keys without holding down the control key at the same time. This fix will make the function keys work with Textpro3.2R and maybe Textpro2.5r, it will not work with any other version of Textpro. The authors of Textpro do not want it distributed in modified form, so you should load this fix everytime you load up Textpro. To load the fix from within Textpro, just hold down the select key and press control-W. The status line will show 'Binary Load>D:' and you just need to type in TXTPRO32.FX1 and hit return. That's all there is to it. If you prefer not to load the fix in everytime you use Textpro, you can append the fix to the Textpro file and it will be there everytime you use that version. Please don't distribute your "new" version. This fix is being distributed via USENET and regular BBSes so there are two ways to create the TXTPRO32.FX1 file. The first way is to UUDECODE the UUENCODED version below, and the second is to type in the basic program below and run it. Both methods produce the same file. This fix does one other thing. Since the HELP key is not used by Textpro, the fix altered its function so that it is the same as pressing control-M. You may need to hold the help key down for a moment before Textpro responds. I will post future fixes as I finish them but if anyone sees the authors in the meantime, please tell them to contact me. Charles Hughes Usenet: Charles_Hughes@cup.portal.com Phone: (408) 732-7749 Mail: 555 E. Washington #301 Sunnyvale, Ca 94086 -----cut here--------- BASIC fix. Type in this short program, or use Textpro to edit it out of this file and then ENTER and RUN it. -----cut here--------- 10 DATA 255,255,179,80,180,80,28,29 20 DATA 195,80,196,80,30,31,191,80 30 DATA 191,80,13 40 OPEN#1,8,0,"D1:TXTPRO32.FX1" 50 FOR I=1 TO 19 60 READ X:PUT#1,X 70 NEXT I 80 CLOSE #1 90 END -----cut here--------- And now...the fix in UUENCODED form: (if you don't know what this is, ignore it) -----cut here--------- begin 666 TXTPRO32.FX1 3__^S4+10'!W#4,10'A_!4,%0#0 y end -----cut here--------- Feel free to distribute this fix via modem, newsletter, etc but please don't alter it. Charles Hughes