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- This was meant as a running form of document, as opposed to viewing form.
-
- Sfree disk space C pull-down
-
- The above demonstrate the ability of this text to run other
- softwares, batch files, DOS commands and the ability to call other pages
- on top of the present page as subroutine pages.
-
- Note that when you move the cursor keys, the high-lighted text is
- accompanied by a message on the box itself.
-
- Try turning SCROLL LOCK ON and press down on the up/down/left/right
- cursor keys. This menu moves around, along with the message on the
- box, since it's set for relative location. Turn it OFF again for now.
-
- Type left/right cursor or PgUp/PgDn to see other pages.
-
- Note that the box surrounding this main menu is the double line box.
- There are nine types, including the single, mixture of single/double,
- mesh, block and blank. (or something else you made with the BOX option)
-
- This was run as "TXTRUN N32 ETXTRUNRN.TXT<ntr>".
-
- _00rType <ntr> here to run CHKDSK.COM.
- Type <ntr> here to see another page
-
- This is the page to the left
- Press down on the right cursor to go back to the main menu.
- There is no other page in other directions.
-
- TXTRUNRN.TXT is meant to be a RuNning example of what TXTRUN.EXE can do:
- - fancy up a text file into multiple pages.
- - to make pull-down menu softwares.
- - a DOS shell to run other softwares, batch files or DOS command chores.
- - a dungeons and dragon game.
- - etc
-
- All this without knowing how to use a computer programming
- language: Even if you know computer languages, this simplifies many
- things while making .COM softwares which are very small, compared to
- what something like this would become if you used Basic, C, Cobol,
- Fortran, Modula-2, Pascal etc to write a comparable .COM software.
-
- Actually, can you use Basic, C etc make softwares like this? and
- if the answer is Yes, how many months will it take? With TXTRUN.EXE,
- the answer is "Yes, in a few hours.". (Making this .COM software only
- took minutes, but it may take a few hours reading the documents on how
- to make it yourself, and a few hours typing your text.)
-
- This is the page to the right
- Press down on the left cursor to go back to the main menu.
- There is no other page in other directions.
-
- TXTRUN.EXE contains extensive error messages which act as context
- sensitive help: Simply type the name of TXTRUN.EXE at DOS to see the
- main help page, so that it tells you what the options are, type the
- options without the values required, and it tells you about that
- option in detail. (a few options not used often is not on this menu)
-
- TXTRUN will make a .COM type software which operates on CGA,
- monochrome, EGA or VGA. A few non-standard type video-card/monitor
- combinations are also supported.
-
- TXTRUN must operate in text mode, not graphic mode.
-
- This is the page below.
- Press down on the PgUp key to go back to the main menu.
- There is no other page in other directions.
-
- TXTRUNDC.TXT contains more DoCument type detail which is meant to
- be read, rather than run as in this text file.
-
- TXTRUN will make a .COM type software which supports color
- monitors and 43/50 rows EGA/VGA monitors.
-
- If your editor lets you insert control codes in your text,
- TXTRUNDC.TXT tells you how to make different parts of the text appear
- in different colors (if the .COM software made by TXTRUN runs on a
- computer with color monitor).
-
- All text files here assumes that you don't have a color monitor,
- but it does assume that your screen can display at least 80 columns.
- (no one asked for a program which works on 40 columns wide palmtop
- computers, which is the only reason why this doesn't support it)
-
- This is the page above.
- Press down on the PgDn key to go back to the main menu.
- There is no other page in other directions.
-
- If you use a compiler which needs many megabytes, chances are that
- the compiler was written in another computer language which in turn
- was written in another, which was written in another etc.
-
- But don't complain or offer to make it efficient, since such
- compiler makers ignore you. Many people like big compilers because
- they feel that anything bigger is better than anything smaller. The
- proof? You're probably the only one using this and will be for years.
-
- The amount of system memory (640 KB size) required by the .COM
- software made by TXTRUN when it runs other softwares varies with the
- DOS version used and the size of the .COM software itself.
-
- This is the pull down page
- The above text is in the box
- as a title.
-
- Did you notice how this page
- opened vertically, as if you
- were opening a paper page
- vertically? TXTRUNDC.TXT
- text file documents this.
-
- The vertically opening page
- is more obvious on a slower
- PC than on a faster PC since
- a slower PC takes a few
- seconds to open a page.
-
- There is a page to the right
- of this, accessed with the
- right cursor.
-
- Type <esc> to go back to the
- main menu again.
-
- This is the pull down page
- Did you see how this page opened horizontally? It's more obvious on a
- slow PC, but not so obvious on fast PC. TXTRUNDC.TXT documents this.
- This page also moved to this position from the top left corner.
-
- There is a page to the left
- of this, accessed with the
- left cursor.
-
- Type <esc> to go back to the
- main menu again.
-
-