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VIEW.EXE is copyright 1987 by Valerie Jean Kramer
P.O. Box 10742
Burbank, CA 91510-0742
(213) 258-9597
Have you ever typed a text file only to have the lines overprint
themselves, wrap around the screen, or do something else bizarre?
There are many programs, including Vern Buerg's wonderful LIST
program that will show the file contents in hexadecimal but none
of them ever really showed me a picture that was quite what I
wanted. I therefore wrote VIEW.
You tell view what file to read. View reads it and displays the
contents on the screen. If a character is printable, the
character is displayed. If the character is not printable, the
ascii value of that character is displayed within brackets
("<nn>").
You can use View with any type of file - it doesn't care whether
it is a textfile or an *.EXE. You can also use DOS redirection
to cause the output from VIEW to be printed instead of displayed
on the screen. Note: If you begin to VIEW a non-text file and
wish to terminate with CTRL-C or CTRL-BREAK, it will take effect
only after the next line feed character is found in your file. This
will probably be fixed in release 1.2.
This is Version 1.1 of this program. I hope you enjoy it and
grant you permission to distribute the program with the following
restrictions:
1. The program must be distributed with this documentation
file.
2. The program must not be modified. (If you want
modifications, please share your suggestions with me
first. I may already have made them!)
3. If you copy this program for others, you may charge a
fee not to exceed $5.00 for the entire transaction.
That is, you may have other programs on the disk in
which case the price of the complete disk shall not
exceed $5.00. If you include documentation of your own
along with the disk, the price of the complete disk
and documentation shall not exceed $5.00. If this is
not clear, please contact me before trying to charge
money for any package which includes this program. I'm
quite willing to let you charge more but if you do, I
want a piece of the action!
4. Bona Fide non-profit groups with the government papers
to prove their status are exempt from the provisions of
number 3 above.
5. I am not requesting any donations for version 1.1 of
VIEW. Use it, enjoy it, and if you are a programmer,
why not let a few things of your own into circulation
with minimal restrictions?
Version 1.0 of VIEW is released as of February 20, 1987.
Planned enhancements include the addition of color, statistical
totals, and optional display modes. If you have an interesting
idea, please tell me!
Version 1.1 of VIEW is released as of July 31, 1987. Color has
been added.