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- Enhanced Version 8.51b
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- for the
- IBM PC, XT, AT, PCjr, PS/2 (and compatibles)
- with
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- Hercules Monochrome Graphics Adapter
- or
- Color Graphics Adapter (CGA)
- or
- Enhanced Graphics Adapter (EGA)
- or
- Multi-Color Graphics Array (MCGA)
- or
- Video Graphics Array (VGA)
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- and
- Graphics Printer
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- This documentation describing features of the enhanced CompuShow program is a
- supplement to the standard program documentation, CSHOW8A.DOC.
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- MacPaint Images
- ===============
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- The information box indicates the number of rows in the MacPaint image. Each
- image is 576 wide, and a maximum of 720 long. The image may be displayed in
- Hercules 720x348, CGA 640x200, EGA 640x350, MCGA or VGA 640x480 mode.
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- - Type the number to display the MacPaint image in that mode.
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- MacPaint images are usually longer than the physical screen. During
- display:
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- - The up and down arrow keys "auto-pan", so that the image moves slowly
- up or down the screen until the top or bottom is reached, or until a
- key is pressed to stop the "auto-pan."
- - PgUp and PgDn pan the image a single row at a time.
- - Home and End jump immediately to the top and bottom.
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- - On an EGA/VGA monitor, you may press "C" during the display to
- "colorize" the image. The 576x720 image (larger than the screen) is
- compressed to 288x360. Shades of reds and browns are displayed in
- place of the black and white image. The [F1]..[F10] function keys
- will allow you to select any of ten different pre-defined color
- palettes.
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- Press any key to remove the colorized image.
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- - With the enhanced program you may print the MacPaint image by
- pressing "P" (or ^P).
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- - <Carriage Return> returns you to the Information box.
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- - At the information box, the MacPaint image may be re-displayed by typing
- the number of the desired display mode.
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- - Type "0" (zero) (or <Carriage Return>) when finished with this file. The
- information box will disappear and you will be returned to the main
- directory screen, ready to select another file to display.
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- Printing
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- The IBM-PC has become a standard in the personal computer world over the past
- several years. The "IBM compatible printer", however, is not as clearly
- defined. As a matter of fact, IBM itself has several different "standard
- printers" capable of printing graphics. In view of this "non-standard
- standard", CompuShow uses custom graphics printer drivers, for various
- printers.
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- The supplied printer drivers are described in README.DOC.
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- Selecting a printer driver
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- Most "IBM compatible" printers (such as Epson, Citizen, Panasonic, Star,
- Toshiba, etc.) can use the IBM Graphics Printer driver "IBMGRAPH.DRV".
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- ------------------------------------ NOTE -----------------------------------
- If your printer has a "quad-density", 240 dots/inch mode, selected with
- ESCAPE,'Z', (eg. IBM Pro-Printer) try GENERIC.DRV for improved printing of
- MacPaint images and 350 line GIF images.
- -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
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- To determine whether a driver will work with your printer, start CompuShow
- with the name of the driver, for example:
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- CSHOW IBMGRAPH
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- and press <carriage return>. When the program starts, the printer driver will
- be loaded from the same disk and sub-directory as CSHOW.EXE. Display an RLE
- or MacPaint image, or a GIF image USING ONE OF THE MONOCHROME (A..O or P)
- DISPLAY MODES, and press "P" to print.
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- - When a printer driver has been loaded, a "P to print" reminder is displayed
- on the RLE and MacPaint graphics screens, and in the GIF information box.
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- - If no driver was loaded, the "P to print" message is not displayed, and
- pressing "P" causes the program to "beep".
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- - RLE and GIF images are printed "sideways" on the page. MacPaint images are
- printed "right-side-up".
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- - The print routine for GIF images is automatically selected, based on the
- length of the GIF image. The program will select a 200 line, 350 line, 480
- line or 576 line print mode.
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- - Press any key to interrupt (and terminate) printing.
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- - When the image has finished printing (or when it has been interrupted by a
- key-press) a form-feed will be sent to the printer. If your printer doesn't
- advance to the top of the next page, you probably need to set top-of-form.
- If your printer doesn't have a specific button to set top of form, you may
- need to turn it off, re-position the paper, and turn it back on.
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- In most cases, images may also be printed in a "single-density" mode for high
- speed printing by pressing ^P (Ctrl-P) instead of "P". (Hold the Ctrl key
- down and type "P".)
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- If the IBM Graphics Printer Driver doesn't work with your printer, check
- "README.DOC" for a description of other printer drivers.
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- Setting up a "default driver"
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- When CompuShow starts, it will look for a printer driver named "PRINTER.DRV"
- (on the same disk, in the same sub-directory as CSHOW.EXE)
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- COPY IBMGRAPH.DRV PRINTER.DRV
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- to make a copy of the IBM driver with CompuShow's default name. Now, you can
- start CompuShow without a driver name and PRINTER.DRV will automatically be
- used.
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- Custom Printer Drivers
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- We want all users of the enhanced program to be able to use the print
- feature. IF NONE OF THE SUPPLIED PRINTER DRIVERS WORKS WITH YOUR PRINTER, we
- will provide ONE custom printer driver to your specifications, AT NO CHARGE!
- (See PRINTERS.DOC)
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- NOTE that CompuShow will only print in black and white. A custom driver for a
- color printer WILL NOT print in color, since the program passes "on or off
- pixel" information to the driver.
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- CompuShow Slide Show
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- Execute the program by typing CSHOWS (and a <Carriage Return>) at your DOS
- prompt. (NOTE that the command line switches and System Configuration
- described for CompuShow also apply to the Slide Show.)
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- Like CompuShow itself, the slide show program can be run in "dual monitor"
- mode. When started on the monochrome monitor, the slide show "echos" the
- script file lines to the monochrome monitor, while displaying graphics images
- on the color graphics monitor.
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- The Slide Show program displays RLE, GIF, and MacPaint images in the same
- display modes available in CompuShow. Since it is essentially an "automatic
- CompuShow", start planning your slide show by making some notes while in
- CompuShow. You will need the name of each graphics (RLE, GIF, or MacPaint)
- file and the appropriate display mode (the number or letter key used to
- display it.)
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- When CShowS starts, it reads the slide show instructions from a "script"
- file, "CSHOWS.SCR", located on the current disk and sub-directory. If you
- have several scripts, you can specify that a different script file should be
- used:
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- >CShowS (script file "CSHOWS.SCR")
- >CShowS b (script file "b.SCR")
- >CShowS b. (script file "b")
- >CShowS .b (script file "CSHOWS.b")
- >CShowS b: (script file "b:CSHOWS.SCR")
- >CShowS b:b.b (script file "b:b.b")
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- In other words, you can "over-ride" (any or all of) the location, file name,
- or extension.
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- The script file is an ASCII (text) file, which you create using a word
- processor or text editor program. Word processor programs usually have the
- ability to save the file (document) in ASCII or "un-formatted" mode. (Be sure
- to do this!)
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- [ Five example script files are included, which will run a slide show of
- all graphics files (RLE, MacPaint, and GIF) included on the program disk:
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- >CShowS Herc (script file HERC.SCR)
- >CShowS Cga (script file CGA.SCR)
- >CShowS Ega (script file EGA.SCR)
- >CShowS Mcga (script file MCGA.SCR)
- >CShowS Vga (script file VGA.SCR)
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- for display on Hercules, Cga, Ega, MCGA, and VGA systems. Use one of
- these script files as an example while reading the instructions, below.]
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- Each slide show "command" is on a separate line. The first character in the
- line specifies the type of command (UPPER and lower case letters are
- equivalent):
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- F: The File name; the name of the RLE, GIF, or MacPaint file. You may include
- the disk drive and/or sub-directory name, as needed. CShowS reads and
- analyzes the file to determine what type of graphics file it is. If the
- file is not found, or if it is not a graphics file, the program will
- "beep".
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- M: The display mode. This is the number or letter key that you would press to
- display the image in CompuShow. CShowS displays the image in this mode. If
- the specified mode is un-available on the current computer, the program
- will "beep". (A script containing EGA display modes will not run on a CGA
- or Hercules machine, for example.)
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- In addition, you may display an "inverted" RLE image by specifying mode
- "I", and a colorized MacPaint image by specifying modes "A" through "J" to
- correspond to the ten color palettes selected with the [F1] through [F10]
- function keys.
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- P: A pan. MacPaint images may be panned Down and Up. GIF images may be panned
- Down, Up, Right and Left.
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- D: A delay, in seconds, from 1 to 30. (Multiple "D" lines may be specified,
- if you want more than a 30 second delay.)
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- W: Specifies a "Wait for key press". CShowS will wait for a key to be pressed
- before proceeding.
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- Q: Is the "Quit" command. CShowS will quit, rather than repeating.
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- For a "free-running" slide show, you would use "F", "M", "P" and "D"
- commands. The program will start over when it reaches the end of the script.
- You exit the program by pressing a key. (If an image or delay is in process,
- it will finish before the program terminates.)
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- By placing a "Q" command at the end of the script, the slide show will run
- one time and then quit. (It may be interrupted with a key press, if desired.)
- By using wait (W) commands, instead of delay (D) commands, you can set up an
- "operator controlled" show, where the program waits for a key press between
- images. (Pressing ESCape, Ctrl-C, or PgDn will exit the program at a "Wait".)
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- An example: (CShowS.Scr)
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- fRADARMAP.RLE
- m1
- d1
- mI
- d1
- fLARGE.GIF
- m2
- d1
- pD
- pR
- pU
- pL
- fB:\MACS\MICKEY.MCP
- m2
- pD
- d1
- mD
- d2
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- In this example, we first select "RADARMAP.RLE", display it in mode 1 (CGA)
- and delay 1 second. We then display it "inverted" (note that no new "F"
- command was specified, so we're working with the same file), and delay 1
- second.
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- Next we select "LARGE.GIF", display it in mode 2 (CGA 320x200, Palette 2) and
- delay 1 second. This GIF image is both wider and longer than the 320x200
- screen, so we pan down, then right, then up, and then left.
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- Next we select "MICKEY.MCP" which is located on drive B: in sub-directory
- "MACS", display it in mode 2 (EGA), pan down to the end, and delay 1 second.
- We then "colorize" it, using the [F4] palette, by specifying mode "D", and
- delay 2 seconds.
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- Since there is no "Q" (Quit) command, the slide show will repeat until a key
- is pressed.
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- Compatibility with earlier scripts
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- Scripts written for earlier versions of the CompuShow Slide Show will need to
- be "translated" to the display modes used by Slide Show Version 8 (CompuShow
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- Version 1 Version 2 Version 3/4 Version 5
- CGA 320 x 200 Palette 1 1 1 1 1
- CGA 320 x 200 Palette 2 2 2 2 2
- CGA 320 x 200 Palette 3 3 3 3 3
- CGA 320 x 200 Palette 4 - 4 4 4
- EGA 320 x 200 x 16 colors 6 7 5 5
- EGA 640 x 200 x 16 colors 7 8 6 6
- EGA 640 x 350 x 16 colors 8 9 7 7
- MCGA 320 x 200 x 256 colors - - 8 8
- VGA 640 x 480 x 16 colors - - 9 9
- PcJr 320 x 200 x 16 colors 4 5 X R
- PcJr 640 x 200 x 4 colors 5 6 Y Q
- EGA/VGA "Zoom" - - Z Z
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- You may (eventually) want to change Version 1 and 2 scripts to the new mode
- numbers. However, TO USE A PRIOR VERSION SCRIPT WITHOUT CHANGING IT, start
- the program:
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- CSHOWS -1 (to use a version 1 script)
- CSHOWS -2 (to use a version 2 script)
- CSHOWS -3 (to use a version 3/4 script)
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- NOTE that versions 1 and 2 of the Slide Show automatically pan MacPaint
- images when displayed in mode 1 or 2. Panning is no longer AUTOMATIC. You'll
- need to specifically insert pan commands in the script.
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- ALSO, unlike earlier versions, the Slide Show now uses the adjusted palette
- for EGA/MCGA/VGA-GIF images. (If you have adjusted the colors of a GIF image
- and saved the palette with Alt-F10, those colors will be used in the Slide
- Show.)
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- The Slide Show Script Program
- =============================
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- SCRIPT.EXE is a program which will create a slide show script for you. It's a
- DOS "pipe", which takes its input from the output of a DIR command. For
- example:
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- >dir *.gif | SCRIPT > allgifs.scr
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- will create a script named "ALLGIFS.SCR".
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- Keep in mind that you can "concatenate" the output of several DIR commands:
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- >dir c:\pics\*.* | sort > full.dir
- >dir c:\pics\more\*.* | sort >> full.dir
- >SCRIPT < full.dir > full.scr
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- (For more information on DOS "pipes", look under "Piping", "Redirection", or
- "Standard Input and Output", in your DOS manual.)
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- SCRIPT will identify the type of graphics adapter on your system, and create
- a slide show script using the appropriate display commands. To create a
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- dir *.* | SCRIPT +H > herc.scr
- dir *.* | SCRIPT +C > cga.scr
- dir *.* | SCRIPT +E > ega.scr
- dir *.* | SCRIPT +M > mcga.scr
- dir *.* | SCRIPT +V > vga.scr
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- Of course, once the script has been created, you can use a word processor to
- rearrange the sequence of images, omit some of them, etc.
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- Installing Screen Colors and System Configuration
- =================================================
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- At your DOS prompt, type CSHOWI (and a carriage return.)
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- There are nine color settings, in four areas:
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- - SCREEN TOP colors are used for the top three lines of the screen and
- for pop-up boxes. You specify a background color, normal and hilight
- text colors.
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- - SCREEN CENTER colors are used in the center of the screen. Again, you
- specify the background color, normal and hilight text colors.
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- - INPUT FIELD colors are used in the input area, and for the "highlight
- bar" that you move through the directory list.
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- - BORDER COLOR is the color of the screen border. (Hercules, EGA, and a
- number of CGA adapter/monitor combinations WILL NOT display the
- border color. "Standard CGA" or VGA systems will.)
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- In the lower half of the screen, all combinations of background and text
- colors are displayed. Background colors are identified with the numbers 0..7,
- and text colors with the letters A..P.
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- You make your selection for each of the nine colors in the top half of the
- screen. At each of the nine specifications:
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- - Press carriage return to leave the color unchanged and move to the
- next field.
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- - Enter the letter or number of the color and press carriage return to
- move ahead. As you change any color, the screen is updated
- immediately.
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- - Press TAB to move back to the previous color specification.
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- - Press ESCape to exit the color install, ABANDONING any changes.
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- After you complete the selection of screen colors, you move on to System
- Configuration. In this section you specify video, memory, and automatic
- start-up options. Configuring the video and memory options makes it
- unnecessary to use the corresponding command-line switches.
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- - If you need to force a video mode, you can specify the mode here, making
- the "+" command line switch unnecessary for either CompuShow or the Slide
- Show program.
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- - Identify the type of of 480 line EGA you have ("/" switch.)
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- - Bypass horizontal panning on an EGA display ("#E" switch.)
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- - Enable PCjr/Tandy-1000 video modes ("#J" switch.)
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- - The size of the read buffer ("#M" switch.)
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- - The amount of memory to reserve for the file directory ("#D" switch.)
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- - The "quiet" mode ("#Q" switch.)
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- - A directory mask to be selected automatically. If you usually change the
- directory mask to "*.GIF" using the [F4] key, you can specify that mask
- in the System Configuration, and it will be set for you, when the program
- starts.
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- - The "two column" directory display [F3], can be selected automatically at
- program start-up.
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- - The "all files" [F5] directory can be selected.
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- - A drive and sub-directory [F2] can be selected automatically at program
- start-up.
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- When you press carriage return at the end of System Configuration, the
- configuration is saved in CSHOW.CFG, which both CompuShow and the Slide Show
- program will use. (Both programs will look for it in the same sub-directory
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- S H A R E W A R E
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- CompuShow is copyrighted software. However, you are encouraged to copy and
- share CompuShow with others according to the following requirements:
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- CompuShow program(s), User's Guide, and all associated files may be
- freely copied and shared as long as ALL FILES ARE INCLUDED.
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- The Standard Version (8.51a) may be freely copied and shared with others,
- so long as no charge is made for the software. The files may be distributed
- via modem from bulletin board systems provided that ALL FILES are transmitted
- (archived) together.
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- The Enhanced Version (8.51b) may be freely copied and shared with others,
- so long as no charge is made. The files may be distributed via modem from
- bulletin board systems, provided that ALL FILES are transmitted (archived)
- together, and no fee is charged. NO FILES on the disk may be distributed
- unless ALL FILES are included.
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- Thank you for your support: Bob Berry
- Canyon State Systems and Software
- Post Office Box 86
- Sedona, Az. 86336
- (602) 282-5070
- CompuServe: [76555,167]
- GEnie: R.BERRY7
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- GIF and "Graphics Interchange Format" are trademarks (tm) of
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- Copyright (c) 1990, Canyon State Systems and Software (tm), Sedona, Az.
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