User manual

Useful Hints
Programming keyboards by tables allows a very flexible keyboard layout.
However, one should have some thought about the task of a technician in
the field! From logistics point of view it should be ensured that:
Spare keyboards are delivered always loaded with customer specific
tables
with starting the system the tables are loaded automatically
The batch utilities
SENDKBT.EXE
RCVKBT.EXE
KB2DEF.EXE
KBCHKDEF.EXE
are provided especially for this situation to allow support of the techni-
cians. However, the programs alone are not helpful for a technician!
Instead they should be available dependent on the solution on disks toge-
ther with rsp. tables at the site. Also they should be executable with the
resources available there!
Take care, that there must not be any keyboard activity when they are
executed! This has to be strongly observed, if such a utility is run automat-
ically at start of the system! This at least requires proper error handling
rsp. retries in the execution of .BAT files.
Double, Triple, and Quad keys only have a cylindric part responsible for
generating the respective code. So it is useful to assign the code to all
possible positions covered by a key!
Programmable Keyboard TA58P
GB - 24