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



that or maybe the waybackmachine.


Jude <jdashiel at panix dot com>
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On Sun, 21 Aug 2022, John Covici wrote:

> 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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