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SWAPMON Utilities
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SWAPMON is a very simple utility to toggle between a color monitor and a
monochrome display. Their advantage over some other simple swap programs is
that the contents of the screen you are leaving are left intact so that you
can reference them.
Two versions are provided:
SWAPMON - a small executable that changes monitors on demand, and
SWAPMON2 - a TSR version that executes the change when you hit
Alt-@. SWAPMON2 can be removed from memory by using
the -r option.
Warnings:
These two programs have not been tested on a huge variety of hardware. I
believe them to be safe, but you get what you pay for.
The TSR version occupies an unreasonable amount of memory (~80K). On the other
hand, I believe it to be relatively well behaved, and it can be loaded into
high memory with something like QEMM.
If SWAPMON2 is loaded into high memory, or it is not the last TSR loaded,
using the -r option will produce undefined results.
Invoking SWAPMON while some other program is running will produce undefined
results.
At the moment, SWAPCOM is somewhat simplistic, in that it expects the color
screen to be in mode 3, the mono screen to be in mode 7, and both to be in 25
line mode.
No provisions are made for changing the hot key. I believe that the selection
of Alt-@ (or Alt-the-2-above-the-alpha-keys) is obscure enough that most folks
won't have any conflicts.
These programs are released into the public domain, with no support, and no
warranties.
Ben Klausner
CIS #76337,1730.