OT: key mapping on Windows

[Jeroen Elias]

Hi Bill,

Thanks for your reply but I am not sure how this could help me.
I don't see the relationship between your story and my request.
Am I blinded by something here?

Regards,
Jeroen Elias


On 12-2-2019 20:25, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list wrote:
> 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