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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