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- │ SHOW_PIC.TXT ║
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- │ Tue 02-15-1994 16:15:02 ║
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- The genius behind SHOW_PIC.COM (as usual) is not me. It is the
- FreeWare program PICEM.EXE. PICEM.EXE will display an astonishing
- array of graphic programs to your screen. All you have to do is
- type:
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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- PICEM {Enter}
-
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- to see the compatible ones listed. Highlight one and it displays...
- but very briefly.
-
- Then you have to read the PICEM.DOC file to figure out how to make
- a batch file that will display one graphic file for....Oh... five
- seconds or so. Then figure out how to suppress the author's display
- screen, and lastly how to display graphic files in other
- directories.
-
- PICEM.EXE supports *.GIF, *.PCX, and *.PIC files. Since *.PCX are
- the most common, this program will display -all- the *.PCX files it
- finds in the directory if you type:
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
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- SHOW_PIC {Enter}
-
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- If you want to see the help screen then type:
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- SHOW_PIC/? {Enter}
-
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
- If you want to display one file named "YOUR.PCX" for ten (10) seconds
- then type:
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- SHOW_PIC/t:10/f:YOUR.PCX
-
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- There are only three (3) "switches" to use with SHOW_PIC.COM:
-
- 1. /? <---- Displays the HELP Screen
- 2. /t: <---- Sets in SECONDS the picture time display
- 3. /f: <---- Sets the DRIVE, DIRECTORY, & FILENAME(s)
-
-
- If you want to display another acceptable graphic file like a *.GIF
- file then enter that name. If you want to see all the *.PCX graphic
- files in another drive and directory then type:
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- SHOW_PIC/f:E:\GRAPHICS\*.PCX
-
- ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
-
- ┌───────────────────────────────┐
- │SOME POSSIBLY BORING BACKGROUND│
- └───────────────────────────────┘
- There is a file on Microsoft Knowledge Base that explains in
- convoluted and painful detail how to use PICEM.EXE to make a series
- of QuickBASIC files (of total size -larger- than the original *.PCX
- file) that can be loaded as a graphic file by QuickBASIC.
-
- If you find that sentence confusing.... you are not alone and but
- it reflects the logic of that Knowledge Base Article.
-
- Being the "Master of the Simple" I looked at PICEM.EXE and figured
- out how to something similar.... verrrry simply with a true-blue
- QuickBASIC 4.5 program.
-
- If you are a fellow nerd, I have included all the QuickBASIC 4.5
- files that you will need to run SHOW_PIC.BAS in the QuickBASIC
- Environment. You -MUST- load SHOW_PIC.BAS as a =PROGRAM= not a
- =File= as most of the SUBS and FUNCTIONS are in another file called
- (what else?) JOHN_SUB.BAS.
-
- Keep in touch....
-
- John De Palma on CompuServe 76076,571
-