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First post, by RoonyJWelch

Posted on 2012-01-26, 15:28

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I am using DosBox to run WordPerfect 5.1 (I'll explain why if asked) and it all runs fine except that the control+function keys seem to belong to DosBox and not to WP. Or anyway some of them: Ctrl+F1, Ctrl+F2, belong to WP but others do something in DosBox, and from Ctrl+F6 they don't do anything from within WP. Any help?

Reply 1 of 9, by wd

Posted on 2012-01-26, 15:47

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README, mapper

Reply 2 of 9, by DosFreak

Posted on 2012-01-26, 15:53

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Reply 3 of 9, by RoonyJWelch

Posted on 2012-01-26, 19:03

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Good advice, but I don;t know how to remap the key or cause it to bind to the WP command -- I don't know what to tell it to do instead of what it does. If I bind (say) Ctrl+6 to return "Ctrl+6" will it then cause Ctrl+6 to do what it does in WP and not in DosBox?

Reply 4 of 9, by wd

Posted on 2012-01-26, 19:37

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You want to remove existing possibly-overwriting mappings, not add new ones.
Also please don't ignore DOSFreak's posting.

Reply 5 of 9, by RoonyJWelch

Posted on 2012-01-26, 21:44

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MAybe it's the wrong thing to post here, but I got a keyboard file from the WPDOS site and got it connected to DosBox through D-Fend. Working good now (I think, so far). Thanks to all.

Reply 6 of 9, by wd

Posted on 2012-01-26, 22:09

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That's what DOSFreak hinted at.

Reply 7 of 9, by eL_PuSHeR

Posted on 2012-01-27, 08:02

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Reply 8 of 9, by WPuser

Posted on 2015-12-02, 23:32

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wd wrote:
You want to remove existing possibly-overwriting mappings, not add new ones.

I am in the same position, as a WordPerfect user. DosBox's ctrl-f4 gets in my way.
So I understand: I have to remove the ctrl-f4 mapping.
To that end, I started the key mapper, but I cannot discover how to select ctrl-f4.
I can select the ctrl-key on its own, and also the f4 on its own, but not their combination.
The readme file does not tell me how to do that.
Can anyone tell me?

Reply 9 of 9, by collector

Posted on 2015-12-02, 23:42

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