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- Mon 02-28-1994 14:25:17
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- Actually this should have been named. "Mea -NO- Culpa text" but DOS
- doesn't allow such long names.
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- This short text file is part of the file set of:
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- 1. PICSAV.EXE (executable file)
- 2. PICSAV.BAS (source file of PICSAV.EXE)
- 3. LOADED.PCX (one of my weird *.PCX files)
- 4. WHAT_ME.PCX (take a guess...)
- 5. MEACULPA.COM (MEACULPA.TXT made into a *.COM file)
- 6. README.BAT (loads MEACULPA.COM for the faint of heart..)
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- │EXPLANATION┌┘
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- I recently uploaded a really, really... -neat- short and simple
- program that allows you to use the FreeWare program PICEM.EXE to
- load graphic files into plain ole vanilla QuickBASIC 4.5.
-
- But it wasn't (apparently) good enough . Got a note that a
- "someone" wanted to -see- the -real- BLOAD and BSAVE program that
- you could use with QuickBASIC 4.5. This "person" didn't believe me
- that my "Simple Simon" program was "better" and sort of implied
- (actually said so out loud) that the reason I didn't use the
- program was:
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- THAT I didn't UNDERSTAND IT and...
-
- It was too SMART for me!!!
-
- Well... I guess he was half-right. Yes, the original program as
- outlined in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (BCPICSAV) -is-
- very smart and very complicated. But the reason I didn't clean it
- up and upload it was that it made BSAVEd files that totaled many
- more bytes that what my tiny program in PICSEE.EXE did. But as I
- went over PICSAV.BAS, I realized it was a -great- tutorial on how
- to save graphic files. So... here it is; you decide if my original
- program in the file set PICSEE.EXE is not simpler and easier to use
- and... uses less file storage.
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- ║ IF YOU READ NOTHING ELSE ║
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- ║ READ THE NEXT PARAGRAPH ║
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-
- Note bene:
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- You -must- have PICEM.EXE in the same directory as PICSAV.EXE and
- PICSAV.BAS or you will save a black screen and be disappointed. My
- file set PICSEE.EXE contains PICEM.EXE (see how sneaky I am?) and I
- didn't put it in here because it is about 50K.
-
- John De Palma on CompuServe 76076,571
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