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- LOOK120
- A File View Utility
- (C) Copyright 1987
- Doctor Debug
- Pittsburgh, Pa
-
- This program is released to the
- public domain, and distribution is
- permitted and encouraged.
-
- LOOK120 is an experimental program designed to allow viewing of 120 columns on a standard IBM Color Display or
- Enhanced Color Display. Please forward any comments you may have to the Doctor.
-
- The IBM PC is designed to show text in an 80X25 matrix, meaning that attempts to view a file with line lengths of
- greater than 80 causes the offending lines to be cut off at 80 or (worse) wrapped around to the next line, making the
- display totally incomprehensible. In particular, listing (.LST) files produced by the Macro Assembler have long line
- lengths, and I quite often like to look at the listing file to see a memory reference or to check on how variables are
- being stored. This is very difficult to do with only 80 columns. LOOK120 fills this need perfectly.
-
- LOOK120 in its current form is functionally equivalent to BROWSE, a program from PC magazine. The only difference
- is that LOOK120 displays the file in a 120 columns, 27 row format. This means that the display is a little less
- readable, but if you adjust your monitor's intensity a bit and get lots of Vitamin A you should be able to make out
- everything.
-
- Invoke LOOK120 by typing:
-
- LOOK120 [drive:][path\]filename
-
- or, optionally:
-
- LOOK120
-
- in which case the program will ask you to enter a filename.
-
- The first page of the file will be displayed in "compressed" mode. Now you can give the following single keypress
- commands:
-
- ESC - return to DOS
- Home - show beginning of file
- End - show end of file
- PageUp - show previous page of file
- PageDn - show next page of file
- Space - toggle "upper case" mode. Initially, the text is displayed exactly as it appears in the file. If "upper
- case" mode is activated all lower case letters will be made upper case, as these are a bit more
- readable.
-
- Again, I stress that this program is its experimental stage. If you like the "compressed" display, please let me
- know and I will expand upon this program, giving it search functions, for instance. LIST120 is currently written in
- Turbo Pascal, but a finished version would certainly be in Assembler for increased
- speed.
-
- If you have any comments or suggestions, please forward them to:
-
-
-
- Doctor Debug
- 1 Windsor Road B-6
- Pittsburgh, Pa 15239
-
- or you can leave a message in the Doctor's Laboratory on any of these fine OPUS BBS Systems:
-
- Soundingboard (412) 681-9464
- NeverBoard (412) 243-5880
-
- In addition to these boards, the latest versions of all the Doctor's Public Domain and Shareware programs can
- always be found on:
-
- The Astral Board (Collie) (412) 571-0472
-
-
- Among these programs are:
-
- SUPERCOM - Buffered Asynchronous Support for Assembler and Pascal programmers
-
- SUPERSORTER - Throw away the DOS SORT command
-
- INVIS-I-DISK - Makes floppies "invisible" to the boot process
-
- UPDATE - File utility allows backup of files which already exist on the floppy.
-
- FIXKEYS - Allows your programs to detect "undetectable" keystrokes (like Keypad-5 and F11, F12)
-
- EX - Allows nesting of DOS Batch files
-
- BETCOMP - Full featured in-context file comparison program.
-
- REBOOT - Reboot your system at the same time every night.
-
- SWITCH - Quickly and easily switch two filenames
-
-