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SHAREWARE REVIEW
PROGRAM: DISPLY - Neat Screen Intro For Batch Files
AUTHOR: James Talvy
REGISTRATION: "a donation of a dollar...a nickel, a penny..."
WHERE FOUND: ??????
RESTRICTIONS: none
RATING: 9.0
VALUE: S (P)oor - (A)verage - (S)uper
Being the only one in the department who knows a lot about PCs has its
advantages. Some of them are not installing software on someone else's PC,
recovering erased data on someone else's PC, and moving someone else's PC,
but most of all I HATE changing someone else's menu on their PC!
Everyone wants it a certain way. Everyone has to have certain colors,
descriptions, or command lines! Uggh! That's why when I come home to my PC
I like things like DISPLY. (No, this isn't a Miller Lite (C) commercial.)
DISPLY allows you to enter information in a cute little box before loading.
It can tell you whatever you want it to tell you, but then leave as soon as
the program loads.
USE: DISPLY's cute box looks like this:
┌───────────────────┐
│ │
│ HERE IS AN │
│ │
│ EXAMPLE OF │
│ │
│ USING DISPLY! │
│ │
└───────────────────┘
Whoopdie Do! So what. You're right. There is a what that needs to be
examined here:
W - onderful
H - eck of a Time Saver
A - ttractive
T - errific
What a WONDERFUL utility for setting up simple batch menus for people.
You can have up to ten lines with 70 characters each. A HECK OF A TIME
SAVER, for all you have to do is edit the batch file that creates the
ATTRACTIVE box.
Although the problems of forcing a user to enter the ASCII character │
between input lines, and not allowing the user to control the color,
get in the way, DISPLY is still a TERRIFIC program.
SUMMARY: GOOD POINTS BAD POINTS
----------- ----------
√ Neat Idea ≈ No Color Control
√ Documentation
1----------5---------10:
███████████████████
9.0
DISPLY has excellent documentation, and superior performace. These
qualities were bogged down by the lack of a better user interface.
(C) 1989 Patrick Grote