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DRSCROLL
version 1.6
by David Roper
Placed into the Public Domain
Sept 6th, 1994
Public Domain means that you don't have to pay me or anybody
else for the use of this program. It belongs to the Public.
You may have to pay someone to make you a copy if you're
getting it by mail-order, but that's not the same thing.
Q- What does this program do?
A- It allows a MESSAGE to scroll in a BATCH file
Q- Why is it different? Why should you care?
A- Probably because this is Public Domain and anyone can
have a copy to use and NO-ONE has to pay anybody for its use.
Q- Seriously...why is it different?
A- Being FREE to use is important where you want a lot of
people to have the ability and yet the company budget
doesn't allow for 100 copies of a $5 or $10 program.
100 copies of a $10 program to use in Batch files is $1000, ouch!
...but, One hundred free programs still costs the same....$0
Basically, using DRSCROLL.EXE is as easy as typing >DRSCROLL
Try it! Go ahead.... you'll get the picture.
You can use your own message, such as "Eat at Joe's"
Try it! Place your message after the program name DRSCROLL so
that your command line says this: >DRSCROLL Eat at Joe's....
You don't have to use "Quote marks."
(I advise that you put some dots after the message so it looks better)
Now that you know how to use your own message, try this:
DRSCROLL /?
That gets help
So does DRSCROLL /H
You will see some switches to use if you want to get fancy
such as limiting the Window of the message to 10 chrs Wide.
To make the message show up in a small window of 10 chrs width,
all you have to do is put /W10 after the message, like this:
>DRSCROLL Eat at Joe's..../W10
There are other switches that you can try....
/R sets the row and /C sets the column in case you want to place
the message wherever you want on the screen. Centering's off.
To set the message at Row 12, Column 55, this is what you type:
>DRSCROLL Eat at Joe's..../W10 /R12 /C55
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To make the display speedy, fast, varoom-like, change the Delay
to a small number of seconds like 0.1 The switch is /D
Such as
>DRSCROLL Eat at Joe's..../W10 /R12 /C35 /D0.1
Finally, if you want the message to wake-up the person looking at
it, tell DRSCROLL the FREQUENCY that you want to hear. A nice
frequency is about 1000 Hz and this can be done with: /F1000
So we have (using all five switches... you fancy person, you)
>DRSCROLL Eat at Joe's..../W10 /R12 /C35 /D0.1 /F1000
Oh, yeah, the switches don't have to be in any particular order.
And they can touch each other, too. Therefore:
>DRSCROLL Eat at Joe's..../C35/F1000/R12/W10 /D0.1
will work the same way.
If you use a new switch, /X, you can specify what DOS
errorlevel code to exit with if a person presses ESC or ALT-X.
For instance: /X4 will exit with the errorlevel set to 4. By
default, /X is set to 1, that's one, unless you use this switch
to change it ...and for "ESCAPE or ALT-X" only!
********************** NEW with Version 1.6 *********************
Corrected a fault in Version 1.5 when I changed Compilers when
I added the /X## feature. QuickBasic 4.5 Uppercases the
command line while PowerBasic 3.0c doesn't. Hence, command
line switches won't work with version 1.5 unless they are
Uppercase. Version 1.6, this one, fixes this errata.
Added a new switch, /S, so that you can specify how many
seconds to view the message, before the Pause "doesn't Pause
anymore." For example: By specifying /S9 on the command line,
your DRSCROLL program will scroll for 9 seconds and then "fall
through" your batch file program to the next line. You can
still use /X if you want to for an exit code.
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That's all that it does... Ain't no more. If you want some more
utilities done for free, write me with ideas. If you want a reply
then add a SASE.
Remember, PUBLIC DOMAIN means you don't have to pay me a dime.
Ain't gonna put you on a "guilt trip" - no sirr-ree...Enjoy.
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│ David Roper, 201 Winding Brook Drive, Garner NC 27529 │
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