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Using Optiks SYS files.

OPTIKS can create a device driver which displays a graphic screen
and keeps it up during the DOS boot. The device driver will intercept
all video i/o until a program named FBLOT.COM is run.

OPTIKS makes conversions from one format to another by reading in
graphic files into its workspace and then saving them as other formats.
To create a SYS file, load in a graphic and save it using the
SYS selection. When OPTIKS asks for a range, only indicate a screen's
worth of graphics. The sys file will only display one screen.

A device driver created by optiks should be tested off of a floppy
diskette first. Format a floppy with the /S option and copy the
device driver to the floppy. Also copy the fblot.com program to the
floppy.

Create a config.sys file and have the statememt:
    DEVICE=XXX.SYS
where xxx.sys is the name of the sys file created by optiks.

Create an autoexec.bat file that has the command FBLOT in it.
You may want to have the PAUSE command execute before fblot so that
you can wait to look at the graphic.

Boot off of the floppy. If the graphic does not appear or the
machine hangs up, then there is something wrong. DO NOT TEST A
SYS FILE ON A HARD DISK. If there is a problem then you will have
to boot off of a floppy to fix the problem.

I have tested the sys files created by OPTIKS. As long as they are
under 64K they seem to work fine on all of the machines I have.
ANSI.SYS does not conflict with the sys files, but other types of
enhanced ansi type programs may have conflicts. Put the OPTIKS
sys files in the config.sys as early as possible.

            Keith Graham