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Soft Key Memory Format
B-2
The characters strings in the soft key table format correspond to the PF keys
available. You may set character strings for each of the 32 PF keys using the format
described below.
Character code
=
OOH - FFH
Number of characters
=
1 - 15
Stopper code
=
OOH
The CONIN routine in the BIOS recognizes the end of the character string by the
code OOH.
LOADING THE SOFT KEY TABLE
Use the following procedure to load the soft key table file (file type KEY) generated
by the KEY utility.
1. Open the KEY file.
2. Read the KEY file. (See file format below.)
3. Transfer the data to the soft key table in two moves. Load the first 256 bytes
starting at 40:5500H. Load the next 256 bytes starting at 352
+
the start
address of the soft key table.
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