Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!feg From: feg@clyde.ATT.COM (Forrest Gehrke) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Help w/ F-keys Message-ID: <31501@clyde.ATT.COM> Date: 17 Aug 88 13:47:21 GMT References: <13.23016A13@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG> <5602@ecsvax.uncecs.edu> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Whippany NJ Lines: 21 In article <5602@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>, uchuck@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Charles Bennett) writes: > In article <13.23016A13@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG>, Mark.Medici@rubbs1.FIDONET.ORG (Mark Medici) writes: > > I am looking for the proceedure to reprogram the IBM PC/AT enhanced > > keyboard function keys to run frequently used commands under DOS 3.3. > .> The command sequence for ANSI.SYS is as follows: .> ESC[#;#;"string";#p .> So your examples would look like this: .> ESC[0;122;'CLR.BAT';13p .> ESC[0;123;'HELP.BAT';13p .> ESC[0;135;'HOME.BAT';13p .> ESC[0;136;'MENU.EXE';13p One more thing (I had to learn it the hard way): Don't try to execute these statements with echo off. Ansi (nansi, fansi, or whatever) won't 'see' them and therefore won't act on them. Forrest Gehrke