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- UTILITIES
- DOUGLAS BOLING
- Vol. 9, No. 13
- PMVIEW
-
- Purpose: A file browsing utility for the OS/2 Presentation Manager. PMVIEW
- displays files either in ASCII or in hex, and additionally permits
- searching by phrase or jumping directly to a specified point in a
- file.
-
- Format: PMVIEW [filename] [/i]
-
- Remarks: PMVIEW can be invoked either from an OS/2 window or from the
- full-screen command line. If no filename is entered initially,
- a dialog box is opened listing the available drives and files from
- which a file may be selected. PMVIEW can also be made a part of
- the Program Manager group, in which case it can be selected from a
- menu at startup. Adding the optional /i switch, either at the
- command line or as a parameter of the Start Programs menu, will
- load PMVIEW with a specified filename and immediately shrink it
- to an icon, making it instantly available. The selected filename
- is shown in the title bar of the display window and as the title
- of an icon when the window is minimized.
-
- Search menu options for PMVIEW permit entering either a phrase or an
- offset to which the utility will jump. Configuration options permit
- customizing the screen color, display font size, display format,
- tab stop setting, and whether or not the scroll bars should be shown.
- These settings become program defaults, but may be changed at any time.
-
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- 9/9/90
- Modifications by Ken Singer
- PMVIEW Enhancements/Fixes to original PC Magazine version:
-
- 1. Fixed bug when displaying ASCII bytes > 7F in Hex display.
- 2. Corrected Hex display to display found search string as top line.
- 3. Added Hex string search option.
- 4. Corrected inability to scroll past 64K using vertical scroll slider.
- 5. Corrected random posiitioning in top line when using vert. scroll slider.
- 6. Added Hex offset and Line No. options in Search Goto command.
- 7. Corrected expanding of Tabs.
- 8. Corrected Hex display when jumping to/near end of file.
- 9. Modified End key to go to start of last line (ASCII) / 16-byte para (Hex).
- 10. Corrected repeating lines of text between last CR and last byte of file.
- 11. Corrected to prevent scrolling of Hex display beyond end of file.
- 12. Added Hex-EBCDIC display option.
- 13. Corrected to ensure vertical scroll slider visibility in Hex display.
- 14. Corrected problem introduced by item 5.
- 15. Modified Open File Dialog to put name of viewed file at top of list box.
- 16. Corrected incorrect file name displayed in "Unable to open the file" msg.
- 17. Added file name filter retention between Open File dialogs.
- 18. Added "New" item on File sub-menu to close file and leave PMVIEW active.
- 19. Changed shortcut key for Exit to Alt-X (from Alt-E) to conform to CUA.
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