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1. General information
Lamneth is placed in the Public Domain by the author, subject to the
following conditions:
o No fee may be charged for Lamneth in any way, except for
an amount of at most $10.00 to cover duplication and
material costs. This is PD software, guys!
o Lamneth shall be distributed in a single form,
namely as LAMNETH.ARC, containing the files specified in
section 2.
o **DISCLAIMER**
Lamneth is distributed on an 'as-is' - basis, ie. neither the
author or the distributor will accept any liabilities or
charges due to damage resulting from the use of Lamneth.
If you want to use it, by all means do so, but don't come
running to me if things go wrong!
2. Contents of LAMNETH.ARC
LAMNETH.DOC This DOCumentation file
LAMNETH.EXE The EXEcutable Lamneth file
3. About Lamneth
Lamneth was written to fill a particular need - namely to redirect
the Print Screen interrupt (Int. $05) to print to a disk file instead
of the printer. Lamneth is a resident program using only about 3Kbytes
of memory. The program is written in Borland's Turbo Pascal simply
because that happens to be the language that I'm familiar with. You may
argue that writing in assembler reduces the size of the code, and
you're right. Yet there is a good reason why I didn't do it -
I don't know assembler well enough, and I didn't have time to learn it.
Because the thing is coded in a quick-and-dirty manner I have not
included the source code here - but it's available for request if you
want it. Contact me at the address below.
Why I named it Lamneth? When I finished the program and got it
up and running the way it's supposed to, I was listening to a Rush
record called Caress Of Steel, where one song is called The Fountains
Of Lamneth ...
4. Requirements
Lamneth has been tested and found to work on the followin piece
of equipment:
Bondwell 38-3 with a 30 meg Fuji running MS-DOS 3.30.
I should think it works on any 100% compatible clone with enough
memory to spare.
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5. Running Lamneth
Running Lamneth is easy: Just enter LAMNETH <Enter> and the prog-
ram will install itself in memory. I don't use SideKick or any other
TSR program, so I don't know wether or not Lamneth can be used in con-
junction with any other resident utilities - there should be no problem,
but if there is, please drop me a note and I'll look into it.
Lamneth redirects the PrtSc interrupt (Int. $05) to point to a
routine that instead of printing characters to the printer dumps them
into a disk file called SCREEN.DMP. When you press the PrtSc key Lamneth
checks wether or not there is a SCREEN.DMP file in the current default
directory. If there is, Lamneth will append the new screen dump to the
existing file, otherwise a file will be created.
I've tested Lamneth on both a Herc and a CGA card and it works,
but **ONLY** on Display Page 1.
**TAKE HEED**
At this time, Lamneth cannot be uninstalled - if you start it,
you're stuck with it! I'm trying to work out a way to deinstall it,
but these things tend to take time ....
6. Rounding things up
I hope you will enjoy Lamneth. Comments, suggestions,
criticism et al are greatly appreciated, and can be directed to:
/\___/\ Ebbe Jonsson
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