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- === INSTRUCTIONS ON VIEWER PROGRAMS ===
-
- Two programs have been included in this package:
-
- browser.exe - a text file browser with syntax highlighting
-
- qd.exe - the "quick and dirty dump" program
-
- readme.txt - this file (as always)
-
- various demo fodder files
-
- They aren't incredibly sophisticated, but I've got enough use out of them
- to figure someone else might, too.
-
- These programs are free software (at least this release -- March '94)
- subject only to the following restrictions: The author (Robin Anderson)
- retains copyrights to the software, and any copies you distribute must be
- distributed with this file (readme.txt). There! That sounds like enough
- legalese to me.
-
- BROWSER ------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Usage:
- ------
-
- BROWSER <text file> [-x] [ -43 | -50 ]
-
- Summary:
- --------
-
- This program is a text file browser that also does syntax highlighting
- on C/C++ programs, and, partially, Pascal and xBase programs.
-
- This program opens the file in read-only mode.
-
- It can also display in EGA/VGA 43/50 line mode.
-
- Use the cursor keys to move through the file, and the Esc key to quit.
-
- C++ source code is available, please e-mail Rob Anderson at 70353,3430.
-
- Examples:
- ---------
-
- Try the following commands on the sample files included:
-
- browser readme.txt
-
- browser kbtest.c
-
- browser comtst.pas
-
- browser balance.prg
-
- Bugs:
- -----
-
- Program expects a color monitor.
-
- You must specify -43 for EGA only, and -50 for VGA only.
-
- The syntax highlight colors can't be changed.
-
- Horizontal scrolling is quite slow.
-
- Browsed file can be no more than 2000 lines and/or about 150k.
-
- Program does not expand tabs.
-
- QD -----------------------------------------------------------------------
-
- Usage:
- ------
-
- QD <binary file>
-
- Summary:
- --------
-
- This program is a binary file dump program. Unlike most other dump
- utilities, it allows you to alternate between "raw" and "formatted"
- views of the data.
-
- This program opens the file in read-only mode.
-
- Commands: Q - quit; N (or most keys) - next "record" (advance current
- record length bytes into the file); P - previous (opposite of next);
- O - offset (go to byte n of the file); L - length of record (set
- increment/decrement amount); F - format (select file to be used as a
- "format file" describing a record); R - raw mode (resume display style
- as at program startup).
-
- Numeric arguments can be entered in decimal or in hex (by preceding the
- hex code with an 'x').
-
- Format files have the following layout:
-
- 0 to 22 lines with a numeric followed by spaces and a short
- description of a "field". The numeric is the length of the field,
- the text is the label to display by it.
-
- 0 or 1 line containing an '*' immediately followed by a numeric. The
- numeric is the total "record" length.
-
- ANSI C (Unix compatible) source code is available, please e-mail
- Rob Anderson at 70353,3430.
-
- Examples:
- ---------
-
- Try the following commands on the sample files included:
-
- qd roommate.dbf{Enter}
-
- Ox20{Enter} (note the 'O' as in offset, not zero)
- Ffld.f{Enter}
- {Enter}
- {Enter}
- O98{Enter}
- Frec.f{Enter}
- {Enter}
- {Enter}
- {Enter}
- Q
-
- Bugs:
- -----
-
- You can continue to "seek" page after page past EOF, but nothing
- displays, of course.
-
- Numerics entered in format files must be in decimal, not hex.
-
- Hex numerics are entered by preceding the digits with an 'x', but are
- displayed as ????h.
-
- --------------------------------------------------------------------------
- March 1994