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- ----- AnsiWatch -----
-
-
- (C) 1991 by Curt Janet
- PSI-CO Software
- 812 Goucher Street
- Johnstown, PA 15905
-
-
- PURPOSE
-
- AnsiWatch is an ANSI file viewing utility. It has a built-in ANSI
- interpreter, so you do not need an ANSI driver such as ANSI.SYS
- (which is necessary to view ANSI files using DOS' TYPE command).
- You may abort the program at any time by pressing a key. You may
- also tell AnsiWatch to automatically repeat the displaying of one or
- more files indefinitely until a key is pressed. AnsiWatch is capable
- of displaying a large number of different ANSI files in sequence.
-
- AnsiWatch may be run from DOS, or it may be called by a batch file.
-
-
- COMMAND LINE OPTIONS
-
- You tell AnsiWatch the things you want it to do by passing it
- command line options, either from DOS or from a batch file. To view
- a file called, say, PICTURE1.ANS, you would simply type:
-
- ANSIWTCH PICTURE1.ANS
-
- To view more than one file, you would type something like:
-
- ANSIWTCH PICTURE1.ANS PICTURE2.ANS PICTURE3.ANS
-
- If the file(s) you wish to view happen to reside in a different
- subdirectory, pass the path along with the file name:
-
- ANSIWTCH C:\ANSI\PICTURE1.ANS
-
- If you want to view a large number of files, put all of them along
- with ANSIWTCH.EXE in the same subdirectory. The ANSI file names
- should all have the same extension. Then give ANSIWTCH the name of
- this extension with the command line option '/E.'. For example, if
- your ANSI files have the extension ANS, you would use:
-
- ANSIWTCH /E.ANS
-
- The files will be displayed in the order they are arranged in the
- subdirectory.
-
- To view the same file(s) repeatedly, use the command line option
- '/R':
-
- ANSIWTCH /R PICTURE1.ANS
-
- You may use the '/R' option with more than one file. After the last
- file in the list is shown, it will start over with the first.
-
- If you would like the ANSI file to be displayed at a slower pace
- than normal, use the command line option '/Sx' where 'x' is a number
- between 1 AND 9.
-
- The command line option '/P' will pause the image on the screen when
- it is completed (until you press a key).
-
- The option '/Dx' will cause a delay to occur between successive
- pictures and at the end of the last one. The length of the delay in
- seconds is equal to the value of 'x'. If you wanted a three-second
- delay between PICTURE1 and PICTURE2 and after PICTURE2, you would
- type:
-
- ANSIWTCH /D3 PICTURE1.ANS PICTURE2.ANS
-
- These command line options may be in any order, but they must be
- separated by a space. All command line options except file names
- must be preceeded with a forward slash ('/') as in the examples.
-
-
- ARROW KEYS
-
- Pressing the Left-Arrow key will slow down the display. Not
- surprisingly, the Right-Arrow key will speed it up. If you press the
- Right-Arrow when at maximum speed, you will hear a low-pitched tone
- meaning that the display cannot go faster. Otherwise you will hear a
- high-pitched tone.
-
-
- USE IN AUTOEXEC.BAT
-
- This program is great for viewing "action" ANSI graphics, such as
- fireworks, etc. Maybe you want your computer to display such a file
- every time you turn it on. Then you would put a line in your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file consisting of something like:
-
- ANSIWTCH /S1 /R C:\GRAPHICS\FIREWORK.ANS
-
- If ANSIWTCH is not on the root of your bootable drive nor in your
- path, you would include the subdirectory of ANSIWTCH.EXE when
- calling it:
-
- C:\UTIL\ANSIWTCH /S1 /R C:\GRAPHICS\FIREWORKS.ANS
-
-
- USE IN OTHER BATCH FILES
-
- If you use one or more of the command line options, you can reduce
- the amount of typing you do each time you use ANSIWTCH by using a
- batch file. Let's say you aways use the command line options '/P'
- and '/D2'. Then you could create a batch file called, say, AW.BAT
- consisting of:
-
- ECHO OFF
- CLS
- ANSIWTCH /P /D2 %1 %2 %3 %4 %5
-
- Typing AW PICTURE1 PICTURE2 would have the same effect as ANSIWTCH
- /P /D2 PICTURE1 PICTURE2. The '%1', '%2', etc. tells the batch file
- to send ANSIWTCH more command line options - in this case the names
- of the files to view.
-
-
- COMMENTS / SUGGESTIONS
-
- You may use ANSIWTCH free of charge. If you upload ANSIWTCH.ZIP to a
- Bulletin Board Service (BBS), you must include the files
- ANSIWTCH.EXE and ANSIWTCH.DOC in unaltered form.
-
- Comments and suggestions for improvement are welcome. You may reach
- me by writing to the address at the top of this document, or by
- calling one of following BBS's:
-
- Greater Johnstown School District BBS
- (814) 536-3139 (24 hours)
-
- Vietnam Veterans BBS
- (814) 535-1773 (6 P.M. to 6 A.M. EST)
-