Path: utzoo!censor!becker!hybrid!scifi!bywater!uunet!microsoft!steveha
From: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
Newsgroups: comp.windows.ms
Subject: Re: Ack
Message-ID: <54978@microsoft.UUCP>
Date: 31 May 90 19:14:51 GMT
References: <7324@jarthur.Claremont.EDU>
Reply-To: steveha@microsoft.UUCP (Steve Hastings)
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In article <7324@jarthur.Claremont.EDU> jmerrill@jarthur.Claremont.EDU (Confusion Reigns) writes:
>The PIF editor lets you assign a hotkey to a DOS application, but they never
>seem to work for me.  Is there any special condition to their functioning?
>Where does information on the hotkeys get stored, anyway?

Use the PIF editor to make a PIF specifying your hot-key.  Then go to the
Program Manager, click on the icon for your DOS app, and pull down File
Properties.  Change the line specifying the executable file to specify your
PIF.  E.g. instead of command.com for a DOS prompt, you specify command.pif,
and so on.  After you make this change, double-click the icon and run the
program.  Test your hot-key; it should work.

I have used this feature in conjunction with multiple PIFs to set up a sort
of "multi-screens" on my Win3 computer.  Shift+Ctrl+1 gets me DOS Shell 1,
Shift+Ctrl+2 gets me DOS Shell 2, and so on.

Now what I wish for is a way to map a hot-key onto a Win app.  Shift+Ctrl+W
and pow!  Into WinWord!  There is no way I know to do it.
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