OT: key mapping on Windows

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Feb 11, 2019, Jeroen Elias via Filepro-list wrote:

>Hello,

>I know this is off-topic, but I remember people on this list have some
>pretty good ideas.

>I am looking for a program which can map keyboard strokes to other key
>strokes on a Windows system, something like Ctrl-J mapping to Ctrl-G.  I
>know a few programs which can do that "system-wide", meaning the mapping
>works on every program running.  What I would like to have is a "per-
>program" key mapper.

Once upon a time in a galaxy far away, I wrote a routine that
would sit between the user's terminal and an arbitrary
application, intercepting various control codes and function keys
to map them to look like a terminal the application understood.
IIRC, the application was FilePro based, and I think it only
understood the old Tandy Wyse terminal codes.

As I remember it opened named pipes with one process handing
input from the terminal, massaging the data then passing it to
the application, and the other listening to the application,
massaging it before sending back to the terminal.

I think this ran on a Tandy 6000 or perhaps a later Intel based
Tandy computer.

...

Bill
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