KBD CMODE controls the softkey emulation mode. HTBasic emulates the ITF keyboard softkeys by default, but can be changed to Nimitz keyboard softkey compatibility mode by using the KBD CMODE ON statement. ITF keyboard softkey emulation can be restored by using the KBD CMODE OFF statement.
The Nimitz keyboard is used on the 9836 system. It has ten softkeys, and the lowest softkey is labeled k0. The softkey labels are displayed at the bottom of the screen in two rows. Each row contains five labels; each label is 14 characters wide.
