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- Automatic Reader 1.0
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- This program is FREEWARE or if you prefer EMAILWARE...
- (However you can be quite sure it may be somethingWARE).
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- This is a little utility that makes your Amiga read text files.
- It was written in ACE Basic, a simple but free evolution of AmigaBasic.
- The program must be launched from CLI, and accepts some command line parameters:
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- AutomaticReader "FILENAME" "FONT" "SIZE" "VOICE" "WINDOWW" "WINDOWH" "SCREEN"
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- Where the FILENAME are the fullpath name of file to read.
- If you want a requester you can pass REQUESTER instead of filename.
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- FONT is a font name (topaz, times or something else...),
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- SIZE is the number of the font size (limited from 6 to 16),
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- VOICE inicates the sex of the Automatic Reader (F or M, at the moment...-)
- You can add the letter S to the VOICE parameter to have a slow reading.
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- WINDOWW is the pixel width of the window, and can range from 150 to 640.
- WINDOWH is the pixel height of the window, and can range from 100 to 400.
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- SCREEN must be WB, NONE, or OWN.
- WB for the WorkBench screen, NONE for non window speaking,
- and OWN for an own screen (a very ugly looking screen (too bad)).
- If the window height is bigger than 200 the OWN screen will be 640 x 400,
- otherwise you will have an 640 x 200 non laced screen.
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- If you select NONE parameter you can terminate the execution by pressing
- the left Mouse button for a while.
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- Example:
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- AutomaticReader ReadMeNOWorDie.Doc XEN 13 F 580 200 OWN
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- or:
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- AutomaticReader REQUESTER topaz 8 ms 640 400 wb
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- Note: Parameters can be Upper or Lower case.
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- The default settings are XEN 11 font (or topaz 8, in absence), M voice,
- 640 x 200 window, WB screen, and are used in absence of parameters,
- or if they are wrong.
- If a filename is missing will be opened a file requester.
- The parameters must be passed in the same order of the example
- (So if you want pass "OWN" screen, you must pass all the other parameters).
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- The program quits at the end of file only if you passed a filename by
- CLI parameter (useful for Dopus usage).
- Otherwise you must quit by gadget or menu.
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- For Italian users:
- Potete usare il file ITALIANO.ACCENT da usare con la translator.library v.42
- riveduto e corretto per una migliore pronuncia (non aspettatevi miracoli perĂ²).
- Incluso in questo archivio.
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- Disclaimer:
- This program was written without great pretence, so you can use it at your own
- risk, and I'm not responsible for things that can happen to your machines.
- But on my machine goes very well, and at moment it isn't still exploded.
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- Known problems:
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- You can launch the program from WorkBench, but it will crash at the End,
- and you can't pass the parameters.
- To make things more easy I made a Script Icon to launch it from WB like
- a CLI command.
- I have tested this program only on my 1200 with 060, OS 3.5 and AGA.
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- That's all folks...
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- Author:
- Maurizio Di Francesco
- (Address in progress...)
- Roma
- EMail: MC6609@mclink.it
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