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DISPLAY v1.00 (05/28/93)
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What is it?
DISPLAY.EXE is a utility that you can use in conjunction with your
PCBoard system. In particular, this utility would be most useful
for running inside of PCBTEST.BAT if you want to display information
to a caller, etc.
Quite simply, this utility will display a file just as PCBoard would
display it. This means that your files can have @X codes or ANSI
codes. In addition, you can have security, language, and graphics
specific versions of the file you pass on the command line.
Syntax
Executing DISPLAY is very simple. First of all, it is going to look
for your PCBOARD.DAT file so make sure that it is available. If it
is not, you must likely see a brief error message at the top of your
screen followed by the screen clearing. To execute DISPLAY simply
use the following syntax:
DISPLAY [filename]
[filename] can be any valid filename including path or drive
information if necessary. If the filename you specify does not
exist, DISPLAY will exit with an error informing you that the file
coulud not be found. Example:
DISPLAY C:\TEMP\READmE.TXT
Outputting to the serial port
DISPLAY will work just fine as a local utility if you wish. In
addition, because it uses the Toolkit for PCBoard it will be able to
output to any serial communications device that PCBoard supports.
At the time of this release that means that COM1-8 are supported in
addition to FOSSIL ports (for those using COMM-DRV).
DISPLAY will work with any port up to 115200 bps and will support
the advanced features of the 16550 AFN UART. What makes this even
better is that you do not have to worry about any of this. If
PCBoard supports it, so will DISPLAY.
Questions Anybody?
If you have questions about this program, please direct them to
Steve Catmull on Salt Air (PCBoard's support BBS).