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- PERUSE.COM (VERSION 1.0)
- Copyright (c) 1994, Bob Flanders and Michael Holmes
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- First Published in PC Magazine April 12, 1994 (Utilities)
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- PERUSE by
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- PURPOSE:
-
- PERUSE is a TSR that captures and saves screen information as
- it scrolls off the top of the screen. Once loaded, pressing the ScrollLock
- key will put you into redisplay mode. You can then use the cursor keys to
- browse through scrolled screen data.
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- SYNTAX:
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- The syntax for loading PERUSE into memory is:
-
- PERUSE /Xn | /En
-
- where n is the size of the the scroll buffer in kilobytes, and must be in the range 16 to 8192.
-
- The /X parameter tells PERUSE to create the scroll buffer in
- extended memory; the /E parameter tells PERUSE to create the buffer in
- expanded memory. An extended or expanded memory driver must be loaded
- in order to use PERUSE.
-
- To remove PERUSE from memory, type:
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- PERUSE /U
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- If any memory resident programs have been loaded after PERUSE, the program will be unable to unload and will display an error message.
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- REMARKS:
-
- PERUSE is similar in functionality to a utility published in
- PC Magazine back in 1985: WaitaSec. But because of its age, WaitaSec
- works only with EGA video adapters. PERUSE works with VGA as well, and
- stores the screen buffer in extended or expanded memory to minimize
- conventional memory usage.
-
- Like WaitaSec, PERUSE uses the ScrollLock key to turn redisplay
- mode on and off. When in redisplay mode, you can use the following cursor
- keys to move through the scroll buffer and view scrolled information: Up
- and Down arrows, PageUp, PageDown, Home, and End. Pressing the F1 key
- while in redisplay mode will bring up a help screen listing the cursor
- keys you can use.
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- Bob Flanders and Michael Holmes are president and vice president of NCI
- systems and coauthors of the books PC Magazine C Lab Notes and C++
- Communications Utilities.
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