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Quick View 1.4 and Quick Print 1.1
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Quick View runs on any ST, color or monochrome.
Quick View - the ST File Reader
-------------------------------
Quick View is a program developed for viewing text files. Although it may
usually suffice to "Show" a file from the ST's desktop, this does not allow
the file to be viewed randomly. Quick View allows a file to be loaded into
memory and viewed. The file can also be printed to the printer.
For example, Quick View can be used to flip through an issue of ST Report
or ZMAG ST. The handy "flip topic" feature allows you to quickly scroll
over some sections to reach the sections you wish to read. Pressing the
Tab key while viewing an ST Report will generate a Table of Contents.
To use Quick View, double click on the file QVIEW.PRG. A dialog box will
appear, and the screen colors will change to white, black, red and green
(on a color monitor only!). Click on the "Load & View" button. A file
selector will appear, prompting you to pick a text file.
Once the file is loaded into memory, and verified to be a text file, the
"View" button will become enabled. When you click this button, an 80 column,
24 line display will appear. Even if you booted in low resolution, it will
appear in 80 columns.
Press the Esc key to exit back to the main dialog box.
To view another file, just "Load & View" again.
Quick View can also be configured as a desktop application. This allows you
to automatically load Quick View whenever you double-click on a text file.
To configure, do the following. On the ST desktop, open a window so that
the file QVIEW.PRG is shown. Click on this file (do not double click!) and
select the menu option "Install Application". Now type in the file
extension you wish to install it for, for example, DOC or TXT or ASC.
Then do a "Save Desktop" to store these settings.
You are now ready. For example, if you installed Quick View for DOC files,
click on this file, QUIKVIEW.DOC. Within a few seconds, Quick View will
load and take you directly to the view buffer.
Note: due to a bug in TOS, the DEKSTOP.INF file will not store the full
path for QVIEW.PRG. Therefore if you are using a hard disk, it may not find
it. You need to edit your DESKTOP.INF file. Search for the line that looks
similar to this:
#G 03 04 QVIEW.PRG@ *.DOC@
and modify it to include the full pathname. In this example, Quick View is
on the hard disk, in the E: partition, in the QUIKVIEW.120 folder.
#G 03 04 E:\QUIKVIEW.140\QVIEW.PRG@ *.DOC@
Due to a similar bug in TOS, the desktop does not pass to Quick View the
full pathname of the file that was clicked on, so this will only work
if the file is not in a folder, or Quick View is in the same folder as the
text file.
TOS 1.4 is supposed to fix these bugs. Who knows. Note that you can also
repeat this line several times, to install Quick View for several different
file types. For example:
#G 03 04 E:\QUIKVIEW.140\QVIEW.PRG@ *.DOC@
#G 03 04 E:\QUIKVIEW.140\QVIEW.PRG@ *.TXT@
#G 03 04 E:\QUIKVIEW.140\QVIEW.PRG@ ST*.*@
#G 03 04 E:\QUIKVIEW.140\QVIEW.PRG@ README*.*@
Press the Help key when viewing a file for a full list of cursor controls.
Quick Print - fast screen dumps
-------------------------------
Quick Print was developed out of the need to make fast screen dumps of
text based screens. The normal ST screen dump is generated as a graphic
bit map, and thus on a dot matrix printer, it requires several minutes to
complete. This is totally unacceptable for text applications, even when
using a print spooler.
To use Quick Print, copy the file QUICKPRT.ACC to your ST boot disk. On
a hard disk, this will be the C: partition. Then reboot the ST.
From the ST desktop, select Quick Print from the desk accessory menu.
A small dialog box will appear showing the settings of Quick Print.
By default it is configured to generate the normal graphical screen dumps.
When the "text" option is selected, screen dumps will come out as ASCII
text. This is functionally similar to the IBM PC's Print Screen key.
A typical screen dump will take under 30 seconds to generate.
Quick Print's benefits become evident when using the modem. If you use
FLASH, or similar VT52 emulator, you can produce a screen dump in seconds,
not minutes. If you use your modem to access UNIX machines, you know that
capture buffers are useless, since VT52 functions are not captured. Only
a screen dump can be used to save screen information.
Quick Print supports most text modes. This includes 40 and 80 columns, and
24, 25, 48 and 50 line displays. There is currently a limitation in the
program, and colored or inverse text is not printed.
Future versions of Quick Print will have other configuration options, as
well as the ability to save screen dumps to disk.