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- A S C I I P O P - version 1.0
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- Whenever I'm writing programs (usually in Basic), I often need to
- look up the ASCII graphics characters for drawing a box (corners,
- headers, borders...). I used to rely on my handy DOS Refrence guide
- book, but I found that I always seemed to have misplaced the book,
- whenever I needed it. Then I discovered that there were several ASCII
- pop-up charts available on the public domain arena. Thus I finally
- thought I was set.
- However, I soon discovered that all of these programs always made
- the ASCII window pop up right in the center of the screen, where it
- usually covered the portion of the code that I needed to check upon.
- Furthermore, most of these ASCII pop-up's listed only 10 or so characters
- per `page' - thus if I needed to reach character number 201, I'd have to
- use either the PgDn or the Down Arrow keys several times.
- Just recently, however, I decided I'd try my hand at assembly
- language, after all I'd had a MASM compiler lying around for about three
- years but had never used it since I was somewhat intimidated by the look
- of assembly language.
- A program called DISKTEST was my first program with assembly language.
- This program is my second `experiement' with assembly language. Please
- note that this program doesn't do anything more than all the other ASCII
- pop-up's, except that I made it to my requirements - the Table would
- pop-up on the far right, leaving most of the screen intact. Second,
- the table would display more characters.
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- Since this is only my second program in Assembly Language, and my
- first TSR (Terminate and Stay Resident) program, I'm not sure that this
- program is compatible with all types of computers or monitors. So if any
- incompatiability is noted, I would appreciate if you would drop me a
- short note, so that I can try and alter the code to correct the problem.
- There is no charge for this program so feel free to distribute it.
- Thanks.
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- Haresh K. Makwana
- 425 Lincoln Boulevard
- Santa Monica, Ca. 90402-1935.
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