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----- AnsiWatch -----
(C) 1991 by Curt Janet
PSI-CO Software
812 Goucher Street
Johnstown, PA 15905
PURPOSE
AnsiWatch is an ANSI file viewing utility. It has a built-in ANSI
interpreter, so you do not need an ANSI driver such as ANSI.SYS
(which is necessary to view ANSI files using DOS' TYPE command).
You may abort the program at any time by pressing a key. You may
also tell AnsiWatch to automatically repeat the displaying of one or
more files indefinitely until a key is pressed. AnsiWatch is capable
of displaying a large number of different ANSI files in sequence.
AnsiWatch may be run from DOS, or it may be called by a batch file.
COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
You tell AnsiWatch the things you want it to do by passing it
command line options, either from DOS or from a batch file. To view
a file called, say, PICTURE1.ANS, you would simply type:
ANSIWTCH PICTURE1.ANS
To view more than one file, you would type something like:
ANSIWTCH PICTURE1.ANS PICTURE2.ANS PICTURE3.ANS
If the file(s) you wish to view happen to reside in a different
subdirectory, pass the path along with the file name:
ANSIWTCH C:\ANSI\PICTURE1.ANS
If you want to view a large number of files, put all of them along
with ANSIWTCH.EXE in the same subdirectory. The ANSI file names
should all have the same extension. Then give ANSIWTCH the name of
this extension with the command line option '/E.'. For example, if
your ANSI files have the extension ANS, you would use:
ANSIWTCH /E.ANS
The files will be displayed in the order they are arranged in the
subdirectory.
To view the same file(s) repeatedly, use the command line option
'/R':
ANSIWTCH /R PICTURE1.ANS
You may use the '/R' option with more than one file. After the last
file in the list is shown, it will start over with the first.
If you would like the ANSI file to be displayed at a slower pace
than normal, use the command line option '/Sx' where 'x' is a number
between 1 AND 9.
The command line option '/P' will pause the image on the screen when
it is completed (until you press a key).
The option '/Dx' will cause a delay to occur between successive
pictures and at the end of the last one. The length of the delay in
seconds is equal to the value of 'x'. If you wanted a three-second
delay between PICTURE1 and PICTURE2 and after PICTURE2, you would
type:
ANSIWTCH /D3 PICTURE1.ANS PICTURE2.ANS
These command line options may be in any order, but they must be
separated by a space. All command line options except file names
must be preceeded with a forward slash ('/') as in the examples.
ARROW KEYS
Pressing the Left-Arrow key will slow down the display. Not
surprisingly, the Right-Arrow key will speed it up. If you press the
Right-Arrow when at maximum speed, you will hear a low-pitched tone
meaning that the display cannot go faster. Otherwise you will hear a
high-pitched tone.
USE IN AUTOEXEC.BAT
This program is great for viewing "action" ANSI graphics, such as
fireworks, etc. Maybe you want your computer to display such a file
every time you turn it on. Then you would put a line in your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file consisting of something like:
ANSIWTCH /S1 /R C:\GRAPHICS\FIREWORK.ANS
If ANSIWTCH is not on the root of your bootable drive nor in your
path, you would include the subdirectory of ANSIWTCH.EXE when
calling it:
C:\UTIL\ANSIWTCH /S1 /R C:\GRAPHICS\FIREWORKS.ANS
USE IN OTHER BATCH FILES
If you use one or more of the command line options, you can reduce
the amount of typing you do each time you use ANSIWTCH by using a
batch file. Let's say you aways use the command line options '/P'
and '/D2'. Then you could create a batch file called, say, AW.BAT
consisting of:
ECHO OFF
CLS
ANSIWTCH /P /D2 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5
Typing AW PICTURE1 PICTURE2 would have the same effect as ANSIWTCH
/P /D2 PICTURE1 PICTURE2. The '%1', '%2', etc. tells the batch file
to send ANSIWTCH more command line options - in this case the names
of the files to view.
COMMENTS / SUGGESTIONS
You may use ANSIWTCH free of charge. If you upload ANSIWTCH.ZIP to a
Bulletin Board Service (BBS), you must include the files
ANSIWTCH.EXE and ANSIWTCH.DOC in unaltered form.
Comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome. You may reach
me by writing to the address at the top of this document, or by
calling one of following BBS's:
Greater Johnstown School District BBS
(814) 536-3139 (24 hours)
Vietnam Veterans BBS
(814) 535-1773 (6 P.M. to 6 A.M. EST)