home
***
CD-ROM
|
disk
|
FTP
|
other
***
search
/
High Voltage Shareware
/
high1.zip
/
high1
/
DIR3
/
FR20.ZIP
/
FR.PAR
< prev
next >
Wrap
Text File
|
1994-01-31
|
6KB
|
131 lines
Reg=Not Registered0003586737
FR.PAR FRANK'S READER V20 PARAMETER FILE 31 Jan 94
----------------------------------
This is the parameter file for Frank's Reader, Version 20. It controls
the configuration of the reader, and is required for its operation.
The first line of this file is the Registration ID, which normally
contains the name and account number of a registered owner. In this
shareware distribution package however it contains a special ID which
allows the reader to be examined by you prior to registering it, and
alters the profile of the reader to accomodate the needs of new users.
Frank's Reader (FR) looks for its FR.PAR file in the current active
directory, probably the one you started it from. FR.PAR can be
re-located to any other directory however if you install an environment
variable "FR" whose value is the path to FR.PAR. See the example below.
Note that there is a trailing "\". In this example, FR.PAR is located
in a utility directory called "UTIL" the SET command is:
SET FR=C:\UTIL\
FR.PAR is an ordinary text file which you may change with your text
editor. All lines which begin in Column 1 are interpreted as parameter
settings, while all other lines are treated as comments. You may therefore
keep alternate settings as comments, or make them active by moving them to
the left margin. Comments may also be added to parameter lines where the
value is numerical or logical (Yes/No). Comments must not be added to
lines for string parameters however because in that case they would
be interpreted as part of the string. This means parameters like MARK,
ENDMARK, EDITOR, and EDFILE. The parameters may appear in any order.
COLORS: There are eight color parameters, each of which may have any
of sixteen values. Set these to whatever pleases you. The
following values are suggestions to get you started. You will note
that the color settings are active (left justified). If you are using
a monochrome monitor, before you use the reader you should move the
color set one column right, and the monochrome set one column left.
Otherwise parts of the display will be invisible.
For reference, the nominal colors produced by the sixteen possible
color numbers are listed below. The meaning of these numbers may vary
however. Note that the actual colors are displayed on a color sub-menu
of FR which can be reached from the Parameter menu via the "C" command.
COLOR SETTINGS (Active)
---------------------------------
BC=9 background
FC=14 foreground
HBC=7 highlight background
HFC=14 highlight foreground
MBC=4 menu background
MFC=10 menu foreground
SBC=7 system background
SFC=8 system foreground
0=black, 1=blue, 2=green, 3=cyan, 4=red, 5=magenta, 6=brown, 7=white
Adding 8 to these makes them brighter, except for 14, which is yellow.
MONOCHROME SETTINGS (on Standby)
---------------------------------
FC=0 foreground
BC=7 background
HFC=7 highlight foreground
HBC=0 highlight background
MFC=7 menu foreground
MBC=0 menu background
SFC=10 system foreground
SBC=0 system background
OTHER PARAMETERS
---------------------------------------------------------------------
AM=Yes Enable Automatic Module Mark Recognition for input files
KM=No Keep all modules unless manually deleted
LL=19 Length of the Module List (1 to 19)
MORE=100 Max lines per module, after which input modules are split
MUSIC=Yes Play a little tune on startup and shutdown
NODES=1400 Number of nodes to allocate
SC=No Show the number of lines in each module as a list prefix
SM=No Show the Module Mark as a list prefix
UM=Yes Use Marks to identify modules
Your Text Editor, work file, and quotation prefix for module editing
Note that there is an unseen blank after the ">" in PREFIX.
--------------------------------------------------------------------
EDITOR=EDIT
EDFILE=D:\EDIT.FR
PREFIX=>
MODULE MARKS Do not add comments to the MARK definitions below
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Marks in the list below will be automatically recognized by the reader
when it opens a file. It looks at the first line of every new file and
compares what it sees with the list of marks below. If it finds a
match, it will then use that mark for reading the file. If it does not
find a match, then you will be given an opportunity to define the mark
on-line. The list is scanned from the bottom up, so if any marks
contain other marks (such as #: and #) the longest members of such
a set must be lowest in the list.
A MARK definition consists of the entire line after the "=" sign. This
includes any blanks. Some text editors will add a trailing blank to any
line they create, but usually there is an option to turn this off. You
should be aware of this because if the MARK definition (below) has a
trailing blank and the text material you use the reader with does not,
then the match will fail.
MARK= Newsgroups:
MARK=Searching
MARK=SUB
MARK=[
MARK=/
MARK=Q
MARK=Q:
MARK=#
MARK=#:
MARK=+
MARK=.
MARK=.+
MARK=Date:
The default value for ENDMARK is null, so all module
data is preserved. For message files which contain
junk after an end mark (such as <<<>>>), install an
ENDMARK string to cut off the message at that point.
======================================================================
ENDMARK=<<<>>>