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Bird's-Eye-View
v1.2
Copyright 1995,1996 by
Toham Soft
All Rights Reserved
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DISCLAIMER - AGREEMENT
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Users of Bird's-Eye-View must accept this disclaimer of warranty:
Bird's-Eye-View is supplied as is. Toham Soft disclaims all
warranties, expressed or implied, including, without limitation,
the warranties of merchantability and of fitness for any purpose.
Toham Soft assumes no liability for damages, direct or conse-
quential, which may result from the use of Bird's-Eye-View.
Screen Print
Table of Contents Page Page
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Introduction ..................................... 5 1
Why another file viewer? .................... 7 2
Installation ..................................... 9 3
Quick Start ................................. 11 4
About Sample Documents ...................... 11 4
Using Bird's-Eye-View ............................ 12 5
Starting Bird's-Eye-View .................... 12 5
What is Cataloging? ......................... 13 5
Viewing a Cataloged Document ................ 14 6
What is a Folder? ........................... 15 6
Giving a Descriptive Name to a Folder ....... 16 7
Cataloging of a Document .................... 17 7
Cataloging a Document Currently Viewed ...... 19 8
Deleting a Document from Catalog ............ 19 8
Navigating in the Main Screen ............... 20 8
Going to a Specific Screen Page ............. 21 9
Going to the Place Last Viewed .............. 21 9
Finding a Text .............................. 22 9
Viewing a Non-cataloged Document ............ 22 9
Command Summary .................................. 23 10
In the Main Screen .......................... 23 10
Inside the Folder Menu ...................... 25 10
Inside the Document Menu .................... 25 11
Technical Notes .................................. 26 12
System Files ................................ 27 12
Sample Documents ............................ 27 12
Network User ................................ 28 12
System Requirement .......................... 29 13
System Specification ........................ 29 13
Technical Support ........................... 30 13
Registration Information ......................... 30 14
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Note: Screen Page(SP) indicates the screen page number in
Bird's-Eye-View program, where one SP consist of exactly
23 lines. If you are viewing this manual with BEV, you can
go to a specific section by pressing its SP number.
Print Page(PP) indicates the normal page number when the
file is printed.
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Introduction
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Welcome to Bird's-Eye-View.
Bird's-Eye-View is a program that allows you to view ASCII
text files, on screen, in a highly functional way.
Bird's-Eye-View allows you to:
- View any ASCII text file of any size;
- Catalog up to 676 files with descriptive title
for speedy retrieval;
- Group files into 26 folders that you can name;
- Go directly to screen specific page;
- Go to the place where you viewed in the previous session;
- Search text string.
Bird's-Eye-View is not suitable for:
- Editing a file (no editing feature);
- Printing a file;
- Handling in binary(hex) format.
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Why another file viewer?
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Here are some of the problems with most other file viewers:
- Going to a specific place in a file is too cumbersome.
Although many programs allow you to go to a specific line,
what we need most of the time is the ability to go
to a specific page as defined in table of contents.
- You have to spend too much time just to continue viewing
from the place you left in the previous session.
- Using a descriptive title for a file, as opposed to a file
name that is limited by DOS' 8.3 convention, is not
possible.
- Being able to conveniently use a function like cataloging
a file would be a great value. Since many times the user
just wants to view a certain file without caring where
that file is located.
- Viewing a text file by screen page, rather than by
document's page(in its printed form) is a feature that
is not found in many other file viewers. Although many ASCII
text files contain tables of contents, this is almost
useless, since the page referred to in the table of
content is the document's printed page, not the page
as it appears, screen-by-screen.
- There should be a real quick way to bring up documents
with a minimal number of keystrokes, especially those
frequently referenced documents(e.g., ASCII Code Table)
Bird's-Eye-View is the answer to above problems.
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Installation
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Installing Bird's-Eye-View is as simple as it can be. You just
create a directory and copy all files into this directory.
That's it.
1. Create a subdirectory for BEV('VU' is used here under
root directory)
c:\> MD VU
2. Copy all files into C:\VU subdirectory
If you want to run BEV from any directory you happen to be in,
you need to create a batch file in your search path. If you
installed BEV in C:\VU as illustrated above, you can just copy
VU.BAT, unchanged, into your search path.
Example) If C:\DOS