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BLOODVIEW SPECIAL BLACK MAIDEN EDITION (bugfixed)
CODE BY JEY^BLOOD - ANSI GFX BY TRICYCLE^BLOOD
┌────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
│ What's BloodView?
└────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
With bloodview you can softscroll thru "ANSI" textfiles. However, you
can use it to view any kind of textfile but don't forget that
BloodView was made for viewing ANSI-files with more than 25 lines. so
don't get jerky if bv doesn't load your non-ANSI-textfiles correctly!
BloodView should display the files exactly as the "TYPE" DOS command
does (with ANSI.SYS installed) except that BloodView has some more
features.
┌────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
│ Black Maiden edition?
└────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
This is a special version for Black Maiden which includes some new
features. It is a part of the Black Maiden Art Pack. Of course, you
may use it for every ANSI you want but please don't spread this
edition seperately...
┌────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
│ Bugfixed?
└────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
The last Bloodview BM edition was full of bugs. This is because it
was done in a "quick'n'dirty" way. I had not much time to include
all functions and I had virtually no time to test them.
This bugfixed version has been running o.k. for some time and there
shouldn't be too many bugs left in it. However, I had to remove some
functions, which were not working yet. And I am currently bothering
with the 3.0 Version which is completely different from the former
versions and which will be released ..well .. as soon as it's ready,
sooner or later. Hope it works o.k. this time!
┌────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
│ how to run Bloodview
└────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
There's not much to say about that! You can either run "BV" without
any parameters or you can specify the filename of the file you wanna
view as a commandline parameter.
┌────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
│ features n' extras
└────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
Here's a short overview of all the "switches" you can turn on or off:
EGA MODE - EGA MODE is a video mode where every text character
is 8 pixels wide. Most ANSIs look much cooler with
EGA MODE turned on.
ICECOLOR MODE - if enabled the blinking is disabled and you have 16
background colors instead (used in some ANSIs).
SAUCE - SAUCE stands for: "Standard Architecture For
Universal Comment Extensions" It's an extension
to every file which contains the title, author,
group, and some extra information about the file.
SAUCE was developed by ACID and is e.g. supported
by AcidDraw.
If turned on BloodView reads the SAUCE information
and displays the name, author, and group of each
file while displaying the file.
Also, if ANSI or PCBOARD mode is turned off but the
SAUCE-info indicates that a file does use PCB or
ANSI codes or that it contains binary data it
automatically switches to the correct mode.
ANSI CODES - toggles ANSI code support on/off
PCBOARD MACROS - toggles PCBOARD macro support on/off. I did not
implement all PCBOARD macros. So please don't whine
when you find out that e.g. @LASTCALLERNODE@ is not
supported. I didn't want to "waste" memory for all
possible PCBOARD macros.
READ BINARY - if set to "YES" all files with a ".BIN" extension
will be loaded as binary files.
if set to "ALWAYS" all files will be treated as
binary files no matter of what extension.
if set to "NO", no files will be treated as binary.
EOF CHECKING - if enabled BloodView immediately stops reading and
truncates a file when reading an EOF (=end of file)
character (1Ah)
OPEN ARCHIVES - if set to "YES", you can "OPEN" and look into packed
archives (ARJ, ZIP, LZH, RAR). If you select one of
the packed files BloodView automatically unpacks the
corresponding archive by running the external
unpacker utility.
If set to "ALWAYS" BloodView automatically opens
all archives in the current directory.
ASK WIDTH specifies, when to ask the user for the screen width
if set to BIN, BV will only ask for the width, if
you are opening a ".BIN" file. If set to always, BV
will ask when opening any file. If set to NO, BV
will assume 80 columns for every file.
NOTE: Some settings will be ignored, if a file has a SAUCE-Info. In
this case, the settings will be taken from the SAUCE Info - no
matter if they're correct or not. I noticed that sometimes the
SAUCE contains bad information. The only way to view these
files correctly is to turn SAUCE Mode off or to fix the bad
information. What sense does it make to have such a great thing
like a SAUCE-info if you can't rely on it?!
┌────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
│ QuickSearch
└────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
To quickly locate a file in the fileselector type the first letters
of the file you are looking for. There's nothing more to say about
this, it should be quite easy to figure out.
┌────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
│ how to configure BloodView
└────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
BV.INI is a textfile to configure BloodView and set the default
values for some functions. Each line in this file must look like
this:
[switch] = [value]
any comments must start with a ";" character!
switch │ values │ description
──────────────│───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
"EGAMODE" │ YES, NO │ default value for the EGA MODE
────────────────────────────────│─────────────────────────────────────
"ICECOLOR" │ YES, NO │ default value for ICECOLOR MODE
──────────────│───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
"SAUCE" │ YES, NO │ default value for SAUCE SUPPORT
────────────────────────────────│─────────────────────────────────────
"ANSI" │ YES, NO │ default value for ANSI code support
──────────────│───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
"PCB" │ YES, NO │ default value for PCB macro support
────────────────────────────────│─────────────────────────────────────
"BINARY" │ YES, NO, ALWAYS │ default value for binary files
──────────────│───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
"CHECKEOF" │ YES, NO │ default value for EOF checking
────────────────────────────────│─────────────────────────────────────
"OPENARCHIVES"│ YES, NO, ALWAYS │ default value for OPEN ARCHIVES
──────────────│───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
"ELITEFONT" │ YES, NO │ turns the "εLiTεFo∩T" on or off by
│ │ default.
────────────────────────────────│─────────────────────────────────────
"SPEED" │ LAME, SLOW, │ sets the default scrolling speed
│ NORMAL, FAST, │
│ WARP │
─────────────────────────────── │─────────────────────────────────────
"USER" │ <Text> │ sets the username (used by some
│ │ PCBOARD macros
──────────────│───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
"SWAPDIRINFO" │ YES, NO │ swaps the current directory list to
│ │ disk while viewing the ANSI. This
│ │ takes only little disk space but
│ │ improves the speed. Turning this
│ │ off is extremely lame, so don't do
│ │ it. ;)
─────────────────────────────── │─────────────────────────────────────
"ASKWIDTH" │ BIN, ALL, NO │ sets the default for "ASK WIDTH"
│ │ (see "features 'n extras")
──────────────│───────────────────────────────────────────────────────
"STARTUPPATH" │ <Text> │ sets the startup path, i.e. the
│ │ directory to show first, when BV has
│ │ been loaded.
─────────────────────────────── │─────────────────────────────────────
"SORTFILES" │ YES, NO │ if turned off, the filelist will
│ │ remain unsorted. There is a little
│ │ "Bug", if you open an archive in an
│ │ unsorted list, the contents will be
│ │ appended at the very end of the list
│ │ Sorry, but I did this in a hurry and
│ │ had no time to "fix" this.
┌────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
│ Creditz
└────────────────────────────-───-─-─-─---─--∙- ∙· ·
Thanks to Tricycle, Buster and Raven for docs and inspirations.
Thanks to Tiger^Vdo for reporting the palette "bug" that occured
on some VGA adaptors
Thanks to all beta-testers and other people (especially to all
ANSI.GER-guys) for bug-reports and for inspirations and suggestions
about future versions of BV.
Special thanx to Tricycle for the KEWL ANSIs !
bug reports & any suggestions for future versions welcome!
Coming soon: BV 3.0 - lots of more features, completly new designed
and hopefully quite bugfree.
JEY
(29 Mar 1996)
e-mail : h.rust@trilos.han.de
fido : 2:2437/901.18