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BUFFIT a screen text capturing program by: D.T.Hamilton.
How many times have you done a 'dir' and had the top few filenames scroll
off the top of your screen and wished you could get them back? Or you are
working in debug and you have just traced 10 more instructions and wished
you could see what the registers were before you traced the 10 instructions?
How about when you 'type' a long text file and want to re-read one of the
first lines after they are gone?
To solve these and other problems I have written a program called BUFFIT.
BUFFIT becomes memory resident and can be invoked whenever a program is
awaiting keyboard input by typing Alt-F9 (hold down the Alt key and push the
F9 function key). BUFFIT will capture all text output through DOS but not
text output directly to the video buffer or through Interupt 10H (a future
version will have an option to capture INT 10H). Once BUFFIT has been invoked
you may move through the captured text a single line at a time or a page at a
time. You can also go directly to the top or bottom of the capture buffer.
There are options to clear the capture buffer, print the capture buffer and
toggle the capture state on or off. Help for the exact keys that perform
these functions may be obtained by typing a ? when BUFFIT is invoked. To
return to your application where you left off ESC will leave BUFFIT.
BUFFIT will run on any IBM or compatible with either a color or monochrome
monitor. BUFFIT will use about 28K of resident memory (this is enough to
capture about 15 - 25 pages of screen text). To load BUFFIT type the command
BUFFIT from your DOS prompt or put BUFFIT in your autoexec.bat file if you
have one. Note that BUFFIT must be in your current directory or in your DOS
search path to load succesfully. You need only load BUFFIT once and it will
remain in memory until the next time you re-boot. Note that if you are using
a memory resident command line capture/edit program like DOSEDIT, CED or
SUPERKEY that these programs should be loaded BEFORE you load BUFFIT for the
best performance. Remember, once loaded you must press Alt-F9 to invoke
BUFFIT and review captured text, once invoked ? will give help and ESC will
exit back to whatever you were doing before you pressed Alt-F9.
I hope you enjoy this program and find it as usefull as I do. If you find
that you do please send a $10 or more donation. Please feel free to drop me
a line if you have any problems or suggestions.
David T. Hamilton
7000 Etiwanda #20
Reseda, CA. 91335