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Purpose of this program:
This is a tiny tool that modifies the keymap in the shell window or
system-wide. It is a replacement of the CBM "SetMap" tool that shipped
with Workbench 1.3 and then was dropped in favour of a preferences editor
offering the same functionality. Unfortunately, this editor does not allow
to change the keyboard of the shell window alone.
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Usage: SetMap KEYMAP/A,WINDOW/S
The keymap argument specifies the name of the keymap to load and corresponds
to the keymap names in DEVS:keymaps, or the built-in keymap "usa".
The WINDOW argument, if given, restricts the keyboard adjustment to the
current shell window only and leaves the global keyboard definition untouched.
Example:
SetMap d
switches to the German keyboard.
SetMap is pure and can be made resident.
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Version history:
While this program has a long history that goes back to 1993, it was part of
my "tiny tools" collection I haven't published anywhere. Apparently, there was
indication for some need for such a tool during Os 3.1.4 beta testing, so
here we go.
The original version (2.01 from 1993) was not lost (I really rarely loose
sources), but it was written in assembler and did not make use of Os 2.04
helper functions - and was hence too long and overly complicated to maintain.
Hence, version 45 is a complete rewrite in C that is also a bit shorter
and offers also the WINDOW command line switch as new feature. It is in no
relation to the tool of the same name from CBM.
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Changes from release 45.2:
When required loading a keymap from disk, the tool did not install the new
keymap.
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The THOR-Software Licence (v2, 24th June 1998)
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Thomas Richter,
December 2018
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