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- Miscellaneous TICO utilities.
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- The programs in the archive TICOXTRA.EXE are accessories to the shareware
- image handling program TICO. They mostly require TICO to be installed on
- your hard disk before they can be of any use.
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- Installation.
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- To install the files, change to the directory containing TICO.EXE, and
- run the self-extracting archive TICOXTRA.EXE .
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- Programs.
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- TICOXTRA.EXE contains the following programs.
-
- - SETUP.EXE is a utility that permits alteration of the screen colours
- used by TICO.
-
- - CHKVIDEO.EXE is an SVGA checking program. It will attempt to identify
- your SVGA chipset, on-board memory, available video modes etc.
-
- - SGIMAN.EXE is a convertor program that translates images between
- SGI ( Silicon Graphics Image ) and PCX format. This can be used
- as an import/ export filter in TICO by following these steps.
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- 1. Copy SGIMAN.EXE to the directory containing your other TICO
- utilities, probably C:\TICO\TOOLS.
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- 2. Add the following line to the "[IMPORT]" section of TICO.INI .
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- SGI = SGIMAN
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- 3. Add the following line to the "[EXPORT]" section of TICO.INI .
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- SGI = SGIMAN /8 /24 bit
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- 4. Save the revised TICO.INI file. If you are using a word processor,
- don't forget to save it in plain ASCII format.
-
- - TICOSAVE.EXE is a DOS VGA-only screen saver.
- See TICOSAVE.DOC for details.
-
- - TICOVIEW is a small PCX file viewer. It only works with PCX files
- that are displayable on standard CGA, EGA or VGA modes ( i.e. not
- SVGA ) but its' size ( just over 8K ) might make it useful.
-
- - TICO286.EXE is an enhanced version of TICO.EXE that requires an 80286
- ( or better ) chip to run.
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- - TICO386.EXE is an enhanced version of TICO.EXE that requires an 80386
- ( or better ) chip to run.
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- Assuming you have an 80286 or better processor, it is well worth installing
- TICO286 or TICO386. They are slightly faster than standard TICO, but the
- main advantage is that you gain an extra 12 / 13K extra base RAM.
- Once you have selected the program you want to use, you can safely delete
- the other two to save disk space ( assuming you have a backup on floppy ).
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- Shareware.
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- These programs are all part of the TICO shareware package. Should you
- find any of them useful, you should register your copy.
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- Costs are as follows :-
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- UK Users - 15 pounds.
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- US Users - 25 dollars ( cash/ IMO ).
- 50 dollars if paying by cheque.
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- Others - Local equivalent to 18 pounds ( cash/ IMO ).
- 34 pounds if paying by cheque.
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- The high cost of sending cheques from overseas includes the 16 pounds
- I will be charged by the bank to cash the cheque.
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- Send to :-
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- Mike Williams
- 36 Laithwaite Close
- LEICESTER LE4 1BX
- England.
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- Please note, this charge registers your copy of TICO as well as this
- group of programs.
-