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┌─────────────────┐
│ WHAT IS "SV"? │
└─────────────────┘
"SV" (short for "Set Video") is a friendly little program which will set your
video card into all kinds of exciting modes. Just think of the fun you'll
have, setting video modes for hours on end!
Oh, okay, so it's not that much fun. In fact, SV is a fairly dull little
program. Nevertheless, it's darn useful.
You can use SV to set your EGA or VGA screen into 43- or 50-line mode respec-
tively. SV can also save the state of your video card, so you can restore it
if some fiendish program leaves you in the wrong mode. Some programs will do
that, you know. It's just awful.
SV can be used in two amazing ways. You can feed it some yummy parameters at
the DOS command line, or you can omit the parameters and use SV's stunningly
elegant yet tastefully simple menu-driven interface.
One particularly good parameter to feed SV is as follows:
SV /?
This will display the following:
┌─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ For menu-driven operation, enter: SV │
│ │
│ This program can also be called with the video option on the │
│ command line. │
│ │
│ For example: SV E │
│ │
│ To skip the verification step, add "OK" to the command line. │
│ │
│ For example: SV E OK │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
Of course, now that we've shown you what SV /? does, it kind of takes the
fun out of doing it yourself, doesn't it? Sorry.
┌─────────┐
│ FILES │
└─────────┘
The "SV" package contains the following files:
FILE NAME DESCRIPTION
────────── ───────────
READ.ME A brief description of "SV".
SV.DOC Guess what? You're reading it.
SV.EXE The program itself. Wow!
┌────────────────┐
│ INSTALLATION │
└────────────────┘
Installation is a two-step process:
1. Copy the SV.EXE program to a directory in your DOS PATH.
If you don't know what the PATH is, refer to your DOS manual's
description of the "PATH" command.
2. Use it by typing SV at the DOS prompt.
Boy, that was hard.
┌───────────────┐
│ LIMITATIONS │
└───────────────┘
IBM once made a monochrome monitor that could be destroyed (yes, you read that
word correctly) if you set the video mode wrong. But that was a long time
ago. These days, nobody makes monitors like that. Not that we know of.
You have our warm assurance that SV won't harm your monitor, probably. That
may not be as good as an iron-clad guarantee, but since we're distributing this
program completely and utterly free of charge, we just can't afford a lawyer to
bail us out if things go wonky.
Nevertheless, we do have this legalistic-sounding thing:
┌──────────────┐
│ LEGAL NOTICE └──────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┐
│ │
│ For noncommercial purposes you are hereby given the right to use unmodified │
│ copies of "SV" without paying a licensing fee. If you wish to tailor "SV" │
│ to your own requirements, order the Turbo Pascal source code ($5). When │
│ you order the source code you also obtain license to distribute the program │
│ in conjunction with any commercial product. │
│ │
└─────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘
┌───────────┐
│ The End │
└───────────┘
Okay. That's it for the documentation. Brace yourself, though, because we're
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