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Documentation for NARCCFG.EXE
Written by Gary Conway
Infinity Design Concepts
Copyright 1987
IMPORTANT. NARCCFG.EXE is NOT compatible with previous version(s)
of NARC, that is version(s) prior to 1.1
The NARCCFG.EXE program allows the user to configure
the screen colors and printer strings used by NARC.EXE when printing
files.
The main menu gives 3 options.
0 - Exit NARCCFG.EXE (with save option)
1 - Customize Screen Colors for NARC.EXE
2 - Customize Printer Strings for NARC.EXE
3 - Restore All NARC defaults to those as released
in NARC.EXE
NOTE: NARCCFG reads NARC.EXE and will show you the current configurations
of the colors and printer strings. NARC.EXE -MUST- be in the same
directory with NARCCFG.EXE and must be named NARC.EXE.
Exiting....
When you choose the Exit option, you will have the
opportunity to abort any changes that you may have made while
running NARCCFG.EXE, or you may save them. Saving the changes
causes NARC.EXE to be modified with whatever changes you have
made and will reflect these modifications the next time NARC is
run.
Customizing Colors....
You will be shown a dummy NARC screen. The function keys
are labeled on screen as to which colors they will change. The
changes take place immediately on screen, so it is easy to see
just what effect your changes will have. The ALT key in conjunction
with any of the function keys will toggle high and low intensity.
Hit the ENTER key when you are finished.
Printer Strings....
There are three printer strings used in NARC.EXE. At print
time, you have the option of sending any one of the three strings.
You may enter up to 8 characters for each printer string. You can
enter things like CTRL-P or the ESCape key. NARCCFG makes a distinction
between upper and lower case on the printer strings, so make sure
you use the shift key if necessary. The NULL character is enterd by
the space bar, so if you only need to enter 2 characters for a string,
NULL the remaining characters out. This will cause NARC to send your
2 charcters and then 6 NULLs.
NOTE: The strings are labelled as 10,12 and 17 cpi, but this is only
for purposes of identification. You may use them for anything
that you deem necessary in any order as long as you remember
what you did.
PATCH LOCATIONS
The printer string and color tables have fixed addresses
in NARC.EXE and will not be changed arbitrarily in future releases.
The printer string table starts at offset 200h in the EXE file, this
is just after the loader header. The tables are set up as follows.
Offset (in HEX)
Printer String Table
200 10 cpi string, 8 characters plus a "$" terminator
209 12 cpi string, 8 characters plus a "$" terminator
212 17 cpi string, 8 characters plus a "$" terminator
Color Table
21B window shadow color (10h is default)
21C subfiles "normal" (1Eh is default)
21D pathname (1Fh is default)
21E normal color (0Fh is default)
21F menu highlighting (4Eh is default)
220 view file color (0Eh is default)
221 background (10h is default)
222 tag color (4Fh is default)
223 column headers (70h is default)
Monochrome Table
224 window shadow color (07h is default)
225 subfiles "normal" (07h is default)
226 pathname (07h is default)
227 normal color (07h is default)
228 menu highlighting (70h is default)
229 view file color (07h is default)
22A background (07h is default)
22B tag color (70h is default)
22C column headers (70h is default)
Each of the color bytes can be broken up as follows.
Bits 0-2 = foreground color (8 colors)
Bit 3 = intensity (1 = high, 0 = low)
Bits 4-6 = background color (8 colors)
Bit 7 = blinking (not used in NARC)
EOF Narccfg.DOC