Re: determining hotkeys for a program, without a manual?

[Karen Lewellen <klewellen@shellworld.net>]

I type corrected.
indeed I have a .com of the program, but as expressed it is very small.
problem with the press every key method, is that I have no solid means of 
learning  the results.
Karen



On Sun, 21 Aug 2022, Greg Wooledge wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 21, 2022 at 01:30:50PM -0400, Karen Lewellen wrote:
> > I have a DOS utility [...]
>
> > Might add, that it may have been written in-house, the trading company in
> > Detroit listed as the Creator seems to be gone.
>
> > Question is this.
> > Is there any simple way to review the program code and discover 2 hot keys?
>
> Do you *HAVE* the source code?  Nothing in your message indicates this.
> In fact, it sounds like you only have the "binary" (compiled .EXE or .COM
> file) version of the program.
>
> Finding out the user interface by reading the source code is much easier
> than *DISASSEMBLING* a compiled binary program and trying to find the
> user interface section there.
>
> It would be a whole lot easier just to press every key and see what happens,
> than to attempt a disassembly.