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┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0 ╨AGE 1 ┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0 ╫ELCOME TO ┴UTO╟RAPH, ONE OF THE MOST VERSATILE GRAPHICS CONVERT/DISPLAY PROGRAMS TO COME ALONG! ╘HIS PROGRAM ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW AND MANAGE FILES CREATED FROM MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF ART PROGRAMS, AND ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO CONVERT BETWEEN ANY OF THE FORMATS SUPPORTED. ╘HE PROGRAM HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO BE SIMPLE AND EASY TO USE, AND HOPEFULLY, IT IS. ╫HEN YOU START THE PROGRAM, YOU'LL BE ASKED TO INSERT A DISK CONTAINING GRAPHICS FILES. ╘HE ╞1/╞2 KEYS LET YOU CHANGE THE DEVICE NUMBER THAT ┴UTO╟RAPH WILL SEARCH FOR FILES, AND THE ╞3/╞4 KEYS WILL LET YOU CHANGE THE DRIVE NUMBER. ╞OR 1541/71/81 DISK DRIVES, THE DRIVE NUMBER HAS NO MEANING, AND ═╒╙╘ BE LEFT AT 0. ─UAL DRIVES SUCH AS THE 4040 OR 8050, OR HARD DRIVES LIKE THE ╠T. ╦ERNAL WILL BE ABLE USE THE DRIVE NUMBER TO SELECT DISKS OR PARTITIONS. 1581 USERS WILL USE A DIFFERENT METHOD TO SELECT PARTITIONS, AND SHOULD SIMPLY INSERT THE DISK AND PRESS ╥┼╘╒╥╬. ┴UTO╟RAPH WILL THEN READ THE DIRECTORY AND LOOK FOR GRAPHIC FILES THAT ARE IN A FORMAT IT RECOGNIZES. ╬OT ALL GRAPHIC FORMATS ARE SUPPORTED, BUT MOST OF THE MAJOR COMMERCIAL ART PROGRAM FORMATS ARE SUPPORTED. ╔F ┴UTO╟RAPH CAN'T FIND ANY FILES THAT IT RECOGNIZES ON THE DISK, IT WILL ASK FOR ANOTHER DISK BEFORE ALLOWING YOU TO PROCEED. ╧NCE ┴UTO╟RAPH READS A DIRECTORY CONTAINING GRAPHIC FILES, IT WILL DISPLAY THE MAIN SCREEN. ═OST OF THE SCREEN CONTAINS A WINDOW SHOWING WHAT FILES ARE ON THE DISK. ┴UTO╟RAPH DISPLAYS THE NAME OF EACH FILE, WITHOUT THE PREFIX OR SUFFIX ASSOCIATED WITH THAT FILE TYPE, AND PLACES A TWO-LETTER CODE AFTER EACH FILE, WHICH SHOWS ITS TYPE. ╘HE TYPES RECOGNIZED BY ┴UTO╟RAPH AND THE TWO-LETTER CODES SHOWN FOR EACH TYPE ARE EXPLAINED BELOW: ╦╧ ╦OALA ╨AINT ╥┬ ╥╒╬ ╨AINT ┬ITMAP ── ─OODLE! ╥═ ╥╒╬ ╨AINT ═ED-╥ES ╟╟ ├OMPRESSED ╦OALA ╥╚ ╥╒╬ ╨AINT ╚I-╥ES ╩╩ ├OMPRESSED ─OODLE ┬╨ ┬LAZING ╨ADDLES ╧├ ╧├╨ ┴RT ╙TUDIO ╙┬ ╙╔─/╨╔├ ┬ITMAP ┴─ ┴DVANCED ╧├╨ ┴RT ╙═ ╙╔─/╨╔├ ═ULTICOLOR 64 ┴RTIST 64 ╙╚ ╙╔─/╨╔├ ╚I-╥ES ┘OU WILL SEE A "CURSOR" ON ONE OF THE FILENAMES, WHICH YOU CAN MOVE AROUND WITH THE ├╥╙╥ KEYS. ╘HE CURSOR SHOWS WHICH FILE WILL BE ACTED UPON BY A COMMAND THAT YOU GIVE. ╘HE ╚╧═┼ AND ├╠╥ (╙HIFT ╚╧═┼) KEYS MOVE THE CURSOR TO THE FIRST OR LAST FILE ON THE SCREEN, RESPECTIVELY. ╨RESSING ╚╧═┼ OR ├╠╥ TWICE WILL TAKE YOU TO THE BEGINNING OR THE END OF THE DIRECTORY. ┴LL OF THE COMMANDS THAT YOU WILL USE CAN WORK ON ONE FILE ┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0 ╨AGE 2 OR SEVERAL FILES AT A TIME. ╘O SPECIFY A SINGLE FILE, SIMPLY MOVE THE CURSOR TO THAT FILE AND GIVE THE COMMAND. ╘O SPECIFY SEVERAL FILES TO BE OPERATED ON IN A BATCH, USE FILE SELECTION. ╘HE ╙╨┴├┼ BAR IS USED TO SELECT THE FILE UNDER THE CURSOR. ╫HEN A FILE IS SELECTED, IT APPEARS IN REVERSE VIDEO ON THE SCREEN. ┘OU CAN MOVE THE CURSOR AROUND, SELECTING AS MANY FILES AS YOU LIKE, AND WHEN YOU GIVE A COMMAND, ALL FILES THAT ARE SELECTED WILL BE OPERATED ON BY THE COMMAND. ╘HOSE OF YOU FAMILIAR WITH ╞AST ╚ACK'EM AND OTHER COPY PROGRAMS WILL RECOGNIZED THIS APPROACH TO FILE PROCESSING. ┴ QUICK METHOD OF SELECTING FILES IS TO USE THE TOGGLE COMMAND, "╘", WHICH REVERSES THE SELECTION STATUS OF ALL FILENAMES. ╨RESSING "╘" WITH NO FILES SELECTED CAUSES ALL FILES TO BE SELECTED. ┴LSO, THE UNSELECT COMMAND, "╒", QUICKLY UNSELECTS ALL SELECTED FILES, SO THAT YOU CAN SELECT A DIFFERENT BATCH TO PROCESS. ╧NCE YOU KNOW WHAT FILES YOU WANT TO USE IN A COMMAND, SIMPLY PRESS THE KEY THAT PERFORMS THAT COMMAND, AND THE COMMAND WILL START EXECUTING. ╬OTE THAT IN ALMOST EVERY CASE, YOU CAN PRESS THE ╙╘╧╨ KEY TO CANCEL A COMMAND AND RETURN TO THE MAIN SCREEN, SO IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE, JUST PRESS ╙╘╧╨. ╨RESSING ╙╘╧╨ AT THE MAIN SCREEN WILL EXIT THE PROGRAM AND PUT YOU BACK AT THE ┬ASIC ╥┼┴─┘ PROMPT. ├OMMAND ╙UMMARY ╨RESSING THE ╥┼╘╒╥╬ KEY STARTS THE ╓IEW COMMAND, WHICH DISPLAYS FILES ON THE SCREEN. ┘OU CAN VIEW ONE FILE OR SELECT MANY FILES AND VIEW THEM ONE AFTER THE OTHER. ╫HILE YOU ARE VIEWING A FILE, YOU HAVE SEVERAL OPTIONS THAT YOU CAN PERFORM, THAT ARE NOT SHOWN ON THE SCREEN. ╨RESSING THE ╞1 AND ╞3 KEYS CHANGES THE BORDER COLOR OF THE PICTURE. ╔F YOU PRESS "╔" WHILE VIEWING A PICTURE, THE BITMAP WILL BE INVERTED. ╘HIS FUNCTION HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE HELPFUL WHEN VIEWING FILES CREATED BY SCANNERS OR DIGITIZERS. ┴NY OTHER KEY (EXCEPT "╙") STOPS VIEWING THE FILE. ╔F THERE ARE MORE FILES TO BE VIEWED, THE NEXT ONE WILL BE LOADED AND DISPLAYED. ┘OU CAN PRESS ╙╘╧╨ TO CANCEL A MULTI-FILE ╓IEW. ╨RESSING "╙" WHILE VIEWING A PICTURE STARTS A ╙AVE OPERATION. ╘HE PICTURE ON THE SCREEN CAN BE SAVED TO DISK, EITHER IN THE SAME FORMAT OR IN ANY OTHER FORMAT OF THE SAME DISPLAY TYPE (MULTICOLOR OR HI-RES). ┴ MENU WILL APPEAR SHOWING WHICH TYPES YOU CAN CONVERT TO. ╔F YOU SELECT ONE AND PRESS ╥┼╘╒╥╬, THE FILE WILL BE SAVED IN THE FORMAT YOU SELECTED. ─ETAILS ON SOURCE AND DESTINATION DRIVES WILL BE EXPLAINED LATER. ┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0 ╨AGE 3 ╔F YOU PRESS THE "╙" KEY FROM THE MAIN COMMAND SCREEN, YOU WILL START A ╙LIDESHOW, WHICH IS A WAY OF DISPLAYING PICTURES, ONE AFTER THE OTHER, WITH A TIMED DELAY IN BETWEEN. ╒NLIKE THE ╓IEW COMMAND, WHICH ALWAYS RETURNS TO THE MAIN SCREEN WHEN LOADING THE NEXT FILE, THE ╙LIDESHOW COMMAND LOADS THE NEXT PICTURE IN THE SEQUENCE WHILE IT IS STILL DISPLAYING THE PREVIOUS PICTURE. ╧NLY WHEN THE PICTURE FINISHES LOADING, AND THEN ONLY AFTER THE INTER-PICTURE DELAY TIME RUNS OUT, THEN THE NEXT PICTURE IS DISPLAYED. ╫HEN YOU START A SLIDESHOW, YOU ARE ASKED FIRST FOR A TIME DELAY BETWEEN PICTURES. ┘OU CAN ENTER ANY VALUE FROM 1 TO 255 SECONDS, ALTHOUGH IT USUALLY TAKES LONGER THAN 1 SECOND TO LOAD A PICTURE. ╘HIS TIME DELAY IS MEASURED FROM THE START OF DISPLAYING ONE PICTURE TO THE START OF THE NEXT PICTURE, INCLUDING LOAD TIME. ╞OR INSTANCE, IF YOU SELECT A 30 SECOND DELAY, AND THE LOADING OF THE NEXT PICTURE TAKES 10 SECONDS, THE PROGRAM WILL WAIT 20 MORE SECONDS BEFORE DISPLAYING THE PICTURE THAT WAS LOADED. ┘OU ARE ALSO ASKED IF YOU WISH TO PERFORM A CONTINUOUS SLIDESHOW. ╘HIS MEANS THAT AFTER DISPLAYING THE LAST PICTURE IN A SEQUENCE, THE FIRST WILL BE RE-DISPLAYED, AND SO ON. ┘OU MUST USE ╙╘╧╨ TO EXIT A CONTINUOUS SLIDESHOW. ╬OTE THAT ONLY THE FILES YOU SELECT WILL BE INCLUDED IN A SLIDESHOW. ╔F YOU SELECT NO FILES, THEN THIS COMMAND WORKS EXACTLY LIKE ╓IEW. ╘HERE MAY BE SOME CASES IN WHICH YOU WISH TO PAUSE A SLIDESHOW FOR A MOMENT, THEN LET IT RESUME. ╔F YOU PRESS DOWN THE ╙╚╔╞╘ ╠╧├╦ KEY DURING A SLIDESHOW, THE NEXT PICTURE WILL NOT BE DISPLAYED UNTIL YOU RELEASE THE ╙╚╔╞╘ ╠╧├╦ KEY. ╘HE "─┼╠" KEY ALLOWS YOU TO DELETE ONE OR MORE GRAPHIC FILES FROM THE DISK. ┘OU ARE ALWAYS ASKED FOR CONFIRMATION BEFORE ANY FILES ARE DELETED. ╔F YOU ARE DELETING MULTIPLE FILES, THE ╙╘╧╨ KEY CAN BE USED TO ABORT THE OPERATION. ╘HE "╥" KEY ALLOWS YOU TO RENAME GRAPHIC FILES, WITH FULL EDITING. ╘HE OLD FILENAME AND NEW FILENAME ARE DISPLAYED, AND YOU CAN EDIT THE NEW FILENAME TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT, USING THE ├╥╙╥ LEFT/RIGHT, ╚╧═┼, ├╠╥, AND ╔╬╙╘/─┼╠ KEYS. ╫HEN YOU HAVE EDITED THE NAME, PRESS ╥┼╘╒╥╬ TO RENAME THE FILE, OR ╙╘╧╨ IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO RENAME IT. ═ULTIPLE FILES CAN BE SELECTED AND RENAMED. ╬OTE THAT IF THE FILENAME YOU SPECIFY IS ILLEGAL, THE RENAME WILL NOT BE PERFORMED. ┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0 ╨AGE 4 ╨RESSING "├" FROM THE MAIN COMMAND SCREEN ALLOWS YOU TO CONVERT FILES FROM ONE TYPE TO ANOTHER, WITHOUT HAVING TO USE THE ╓IEW/╙AVE OPTION DESCRIBED EARLIER. ╬OTE, HOWEVER, THAT IF YOU HAVE ONLY ONE DRIVE, YOU CAN ONLY USE THIS COMMAND IF YOU SAVE TO THE SAME DISK AS YOU ARE LOADING FILES FROM. ═AKE SURE THERE IS PLENTY OF SPACE ON THE DISK. ┴ MENU WILL APPEAR SHOWING YOU WHICH TYPES YOU CAN CONVERT THE HI-RES AND MULTICOLOR FILES THAT YOU HAVE SELECTED ON THE DISK. ╬OTE THAT ON BOTH MENUS, AN OPTION CALLED "╬O ├ONVERSION" APPEARS. ╔F YOU SELECT THIS TYPE, NO FILE CONVERSIONS WILL BE DONE, RESULTING IN A ├OPY OPERATION TO THE DESTINATION DISK. ╫HILE THE CONVERSION IS TAKING PLACE, THE FILES BEING CONVERTED ARE DISPLAYED ON THE SCREEN WHILE SAVING, FOR ENTERTAINMENT VALUE. ╨RESSING "─" AT THE MAIN COMMAND SCREEN CAUSES THE PROGRAM TO ASK FOR A NEW DISK OF GRAPHIC FILES. ╫HEN YOU PRESS ╥┼╘╒╥╬, THE NEW DISK WILL BE READ, AND THE DIRECTORY DISPLAYED ON THE SCREEN. ┘OU SHOULD USE THIS COMMAND WHENEVER YOU CHANGE SOURCE DISKS. ┼ITHER AT THE COMMAND SCREEN, OR AFTER PRESSING "─", YOU CAN USE THE FUNCTION KEYS TO CHANGE THE ╙OURCE AND ─ESTINATION DEVICE NUMBERS DISPLAYED ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN. ┘OU CAN SELECT ANY DEVICE/DRIVE COMBINATION, EVEN AN ILLEGAL ONE, SO BE CAREFUL THAT THE DEVICE ┴╬─ DRIVE THAT YOU SELECT ARE LEGAL. ╔F YOU SELECT AN ILLEGAL SOURCE OR DESTINATION DEVICE OR DRIVE, THE PROGRAM WILL PROBABLY APPEAR TO BE IGNORING YOUR COMMANDS WHEN YOU REFERENCE THE ILLEGAL DRIVE. ╘HE ╙OURCE DRIVE IS THE DRIVE FROM WHICH GRAPHIC FILES WILL BE LOADED, AND FROM WHICH THE DIRECTORY WILL BE READ WHEN YOU CHANGED DISKS. ╘HE ─ESTINATION DRIVE IS THE DRIVE TO WHICH ANY FILES CREATED WILL BE SAVED, EITHER FROM THE ╙AVE OPTION IN THE ╓IEW COMMAND, OR WHEN USING THE ├ONVERT/├OPY COMMAND. ┴LSO, THE NUMBER OF BLOCKS FREE (DISPLAYED NEAR THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER) IS DISPLAYED FOR THE ─ESTINATION DRIVE, NOT THE ╙OURCE DRIVE. ╘HAT COVERS ALL THE COMMANDS, AND THROUGH CREATIVE USE OF THIS PROGRAM, YOU CAN DO SOME AMAZING THINGS. ╞OR EXAMPLE, USING ╥┴═─╧╙, YOU CAN CREATE AN IMPRESSIVE ╥┼╒ SLIDESHOW BY COPYING FILES TO THE ╥┴═ DISK, THEN PERFORMING A SLIDESHOW FROM THAT DEVICE. ╘HE VIEW, SCRATCH, RENAME, AND COPY OPERATIONS MAKE THIS PROGRAM VERY HELPFUL IN MANAGING A LARGE NUMBER OF GRAPHIC FILES ACROSS MULTIPLE DISKS. ╘HE CONVERSION COMMANDS ARE EXTREMELY HELPFUL WHEN YOU WISH TO USE THE FEATURES OF SEVERAL DIFFERENT ART PROGRAMS TO COMPLETE A PICTURE. ┴LSO, MANY OTHER UTILITIES REQUIRE FILES TO BE IN A SPECIFIC FORMAT ┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0 ╨AGE 5 (USUALLY ╦OALA OR ─OODLE) BEFORE THEY CAN USE THE FILES, AND THIS PROGRAM CAN CONVERT MOST PICTURES TO THESE TYPES. ╠ASTLY, THIS PROGRAM IS WELL-SUITED TO CONVERTING FILES TO AND FROM THE COMPRESSED ╩╩ AND ╟╟ FORMATS FOUND SO OFTEN ON ┬┬╙'S AND ONLINE SERVICES. ╬OTE TO 1581 ╒SERS ┴UTO╟RAPH ATTEMPTS TO SUPPORT 1581 PARTITIONS, IN A LIMITED FASHION. ╫HEN YOU INSERT A NEW DISK AND READ THE ROOT DIRECTORY, PARTITION FILES APPEAR ON THE MAIN SCREEN JUST LIKE NORMAL GRAPHIC FILES, BUT THE FILETYPE IS SHOWN AS AN ARROW, INDICATING THAT THE FILE IS A SUBDIRECTORY. ╔F YOU MOVE THE CURSOR TO THE DIRECTORY AND PRESS ╥┼╘╒╥╬, THE SUBDIRECTORY WILL BE OPENED AND READ. ╔F IT CONTAINS GRAPHIC FILES, YOU WILL SEE THEM. ╔F NOT, A MESSAGE WILL BE DISPLAYED, AND YOU WILL BE RETURNED TO THE ROOT DIRECTORY. ┴T ANY TIME, YOU CAN ALSO RETURN TO THE ROOT DIRECTORY BY PRESSING THE "/" KEY. ┘OU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SELECT (VIA ╙╨┴├┼ BAR OR "╘" COMMAND) A PARTITION FILE, AND NO FILE OPERATIONS ARE ALLOWED ON SUCH FILES, EXCEPT FOR ╥ENAME, WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO CHANGE THE NAME OF A PARTITION FILE. ╬OTE THAT ALL PICTURE LOADS AND SAVES WILL BE PERFORMED IN THE CURRENT OPEN PARTITION. ╘HERE IS CURRENTLY NO WAY TO COPY FILES FROM ONE PARTITION TO ANOTHER ON THE SAME DISK. ─ON'T ╥EAD ╘HIS! ╘HIS PROGRAM IS DISTRIBUTED AS ╞REE╫ARE, MEANING IF YOU LIKE THE PROGRAM, THAT'S GREAT, AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, TELL ME WHY, AND MAYBE ╔ CAN HELP YOU WITH IT OR FIX SOMETHING THAT'S WRONG WITH IT. ╔F YOU WISH TO CONTACT ME BY ┼-═AIL, ╔ CAN BE REACHED AS "╞UZZY ╞OX" ON ╤UANTUM-╠INK. ╧R, YOU CAN CONTACT MY BY ╨-═AIL (╨APER ═AIL!) AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS: ╞UZZY ╞OX 940 ╥AMBLEWOOD ─R. ╠EWISVILLE, ╘╪ 75067 ┴LSO, IF YOU HAVE ANY DRAWINGS OR PICTURES OF FURRY CRITTERS THAT YOU DON'T WANT ANY MORE, SEND THEM TO ME! ╔ LOVE CUTE CRITTER DRAWINGS! ┴LSO, PLEASE DON'T SEND ANY CHECKS OR MONEY ORDERS MADE OUT TO "╞UZZY ╞OX," AS MY BANK WILL NOT ACCEPT THAT NAME, FOR SOME REASON. ╨LEASE ENJOY THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM, AND LOOK FOR UPGRADES IN THE FUTURE, AS ╔ INTEND TO SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM. ╙PECIAL ┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0 ╨AGE 6 THANKS GO TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED ME PUT THIS PROGRAM TOGETHER AND MAKE IT WORK (EVEN WITHOUT A 1581 TO TEST WITH!). ╘HANKS, AND HAVE FUN!