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A2R.EXE Documentation File.
A2R is a conversion utility that converts ANSI screens to
RIP format. To use it is very simple. On the DOS command line,
enter A2R followed by the path to and the filename of the ANSI screen
to be converted. Press ENTER. In a few seconds, your ANSI screen
will have been converted into a RIP screen.
Usage:
A2R [d:[\path\]]filename.ANS
Where: d: is the drive letter of the drive containing
the ANSI file.
\path\ is the path or directory containing the ANSI
file.
filename.ANS is the name of the ANSI file to be converted.
A2R will use the same filename, but will change the extention
from ANS to RIP. If the filename has no extention, A2R will simply
append the extention RIP to the filename. The output file (filename.RIP)
will be located in the same directory as the original file.
NOTE: A2R makes no changes to the original file so you will
still have your original after running A2R.
One note about aspect ratios. The fonts that most closely
emulate the same aspect ration of a text screen (small font, size 5)
are broken. That is, the extended ASCII characters used for drawing
boxes and many ANSI screens do not properly align. There was nothing
I could do about that so I opted to use the one font and size that
wasn't broken. The default font of the RIP format. The net result
is that A2R "squishes" the original ANSI picture from top to bottom.
Some ansi pictures simply will not look correct with the
changed aspect ratio. The difference is that, while there are still
80 characters horizontally, there are 52 characters vertically so
a full screen ANSI picture will only fill half the screen.
When the larger fonts are fixed, I'll fix A2R.
David Keith Pratt