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- IShow 1.0 - GIF viewer and slide show by John Holt - john90@delphi.com
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- Tired of loading up some program so you can view your images? Wouldn't
- you like a faster way of seeing the new .GIF you just downloaded? How
- about a slide show of all your favorite pictures without any script
- file? You can with IShow.
-
- Ishow is a DOS 32-bit command-line program. Therefore, you can run it in
- DOS, or a full-screen DOS session under Windows or OS/2. I currently use
- it as an OS/2 screensaver. And all the pictures are so coooooool.
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- Usage:
- ishow [Files] [TimeDelay]
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- Examples:
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- ishow scene.gif
- will display that GIF. Needs .gif extension.
- ishow
- will randomly display up to 256 GIFs in current directory.
- ishow \gifs\
- will randomly display up to 256 GIFs in given directory.
- ishow \gifs\a*.gif
- will randomly display up to 256 GIFs beginning with 'a' in directory.
- ishow \gifs\ 20
- will randomly display each GIF for 20 seconds instead of 5.
-
- All GIFs are scaled and put into the best-fitting video mode. So,
- A 400x300x256 image would be scaled to 640x480x256 in VRES mode.
- A 160x100x256 image would be scaled to 320x200x256 in MRES mode.
- If the above were both the same picture, you almost wouldn't be able to
- tell the difference.
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- To avoid memory-hogs and slow-response time, a 640x480x256 mode is max.
- 'Super' pictures like 1024x768x256 are scaled down.
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- During a slide show, while one image is displaying, the next is loading.
- After a timeout of 5 seconds, the next image is displayed and the
- process repeats. If an error is encountered, it is recorded in ishow.err
- and IShow exits, displaying the contents of ishow.err. The file 'next'
- will have the name of the image for future reference.
- To exit IShow hit any key.
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- IShow is freeware. Use it as much as you like. If you think it is
- worth it, please send a WHOPPING $5 (or more!) and your email address to:
- John Holt
- 1106 St. James Place
- Nashua, NH 03062
- and I will send you the complete source code via email.
- Questions/comments: john90@delphi.com
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- Version 1.0 released 2/22/95.
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- ToDo: Support for other formats such as PCX,BMP,TGA, etc.
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