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- This diskette includes a file, ANSISCR.EXE, which may or may not be useful to
- you. It is a utility that will produce an ANSI coded text file that will
- produce the SDA image file you gave it as input. To use the ANSI file, you
- must, of course, have DEVICE=ANSI.SYS in your system CONFIG file (See your
- DOS manual). I'm not too excited about this one. Its SLOW, and the result
- file is about three times the compressed image file in size. Its big
- advantage, of course, is that you can use the file to produce the screen
- without use of a bridge. Simply open and read the file, and output the input
- data to the screen in a normal text output statement. It ignores fields, and
- I haven't figured out a practical way to get the ANSI stuff to work with
- fields, so that it would be useful to you.
-
- The utility prompts for the name of the "image" (.IMG) file, and then for
- an output file name. Give full names (with extensions) for both input and
- output file names. Its fairly dumb, so don't try "paths" on either
- the input or the output files. It also does NOT check for the prior existance
- of your output file, so if you give it the name of an existing file, the
- old file will be overwritten. Let me know if you find this useful, and
- I'll eventually get around to "cleaning it up". This is all the documentation
- there is, so good luck. It displays the screen as it forms the ANSI file, so
- don't panic if you suddently get a display...it's normal.
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- D²