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- ANSIVIEW documentation
- Copyright (c) 1994 by Cal Drennen
-
- ANSIVIEW is an ANSI file viewer written for use by CDV. Other ANSI viewers
- tested crashed and burned when invoked in a dos shell. This happened without
- fail if EMM386 was loaded. ANSIVIEW does not intercept characters on their way
- to dos. It reads the ANSI file; interprets the escape sequences; and does its
- own display.
- ANSIVIEW can be used alone from the command line.
-
- ADVANTAGES
-
- 1. Does not require ANSI.SYS. If the ANSI driver is present, it will not
- interfere with ANSIVIEW. It is simply bypassed.
-
- 2. Completely immune to "ANSI bombs".
-
- 3. Optional speed control for animation.
-
- 4. Optional wait for keypress after display to prevent a destructive cursor
- in the image.
-
- 5. Turns off the cursor during display to eliminate the jittery flicker
- caused by rapid cursor movement during animation.
-
- 6. Gives you the option of displaying in 43 or 50 line mode. EGA can
- display 43 lines. VGA can display 50 lines.
-
- COMMAND LINE PARAMETERS
-
- Usage: ANSIVIEW filename.ext [speed] [w][seconds] [/4350]
-
- filename.ext = An ANSI file to be displayed. Wildcards OK.
-
- speed = Optional speed of the display. Typical values
- are 0-20 but can be as high as 65535. 0 is fastest.
- The default is 0.
-
- w = Wait for keypress with cursor off when display is complete.
-
- w[seconds] = Wait for selected number of seconds after display. Does not
- require keypress. Any key aborts the delay.
-
- /4350 = Use 43 or 50 line mode. EGA can display 43 lines; VGA 50.
-
- Press <ESC> to skip the file being displayed.
-
- Press any key during a delay between images in a slideshow to skip the
- delay.
-
- Press Ctrl-C or Ctrl-Break to abort a slideshow.
-
-
- Examples of valid commands:
-
- ANSIVIEW somefile.ans [Displays ANSI file]
- ANSIVIEW somefile.ans 5 [Displays more slowly]
- ANSIVIEW somefile.ans 10 w [Displays more slowly & waits for keypress]
- ANSIVIEW somefile.ans w [Default speed, waits for keypress]
- ANSIVIEW *.ans w2 [Display all ANSI files matching the
- wildcard name. Wait two seconds between
- files. To abort entire sequence press ESC
- during a wait for keypress]
- ANSIVIEW somefile.ans /4350 [Displays in 43 line mode on EGA monitor or
- 50 line mode on VGA]
-
- Command line parameters after the filename can be in any order.
-