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



How about -h or --help, do either of those give you anything?  What is
the name of the utility, maybe its webpage is in archive.org
somewhere.

On Sun, 21 Aug 2022 13:30:50 -0400,
Karen Lewellen wrote:
> 
> Hi everyone,
> A  creative question to be sure, but I am running out of ideas.
> I have a DOS utility that is quite small.  its purpose is to
> interface with a stand alone scanner I own, xerox Reading Edge,
> and via connector to my computer's serial port transfer  scanned
> content  directly into my word processor, Wordperfect.
> Most of my computer things are in storage, but I am working on
> research that requires me to use the utility.
> Normally I would remind myself of commands by checking its
> manual, but that machine is not available.
> 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?
> would happily pay someone with the talent, as I use the program
> professionally.
> Thanks for any ideas,
> 
> Karen
> 
> 

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