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Sally Tex-Format Screen Dumper version 1,10
Morten Welinder & Peter Hjæresen
March 1993
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1. Welcome
Welcome to the Sally Tex-Format Screen Dumper, a utility for producing
manuals et cetera with screen dumps using simple LaTeX and no extras.
The program supports frames and almost all the strange characters found
in text modes.
This program is in the public domain; no fee is charged and it may be
distributed freely. We ask of you to keep the package intact when you
distribute -- that makes it easier for us to respond correctly to bug
reports and other comments on the program.
2. Usage
To start the program, type
Scr2Tex <Program> <Parameters>
where <Program> is the name of your program and <Parameters> is a list of
its parameters. Your program must be either a .Com file or a .Exe file;
.Bat files are not supported directly. You can also make Scr2Tex go
pseudo-resident by using "Command.Com" as the program.
When Scr2Tex is loaded all Print-Screen commands are trapped. Instead of
printing to the printer, the image goes to a file named "Dump0001.Scr" for
the first dump, "Dump0002.Scr" for the next, et cetera. The format used is
suitable for inclusion in LaTeX documents with the \scrdump macro found
in the file "Scrdumps.Sty" supplied with this program.
Scr2Tex currently supports only three different code pages: 437 (English),
850 (Multi-lingual), and 865 (Denmark & Norway). If the active code page is
not one of these a warning is printed and 437 is used. If you have a
really good reason for using any other code page, go ahead and tell me.
To test the program use the command "Scr2Tex Test". Press Print-Screen and
then Enter. Then use LaTex on the document "Test.Tex". You may have to
generate a new font (type writer, 8pt). When printing the output of the
test program you may find that the output is ugly! Don't worry, most
reasonably screen dumps come out all right -- try printing "Frista.Scr".
3. Bugs
The following bugs are known:
- Not all characters are supported; unsupported ones are printed as
"?". Study the output from the supplied test program.
- Colours are not supported. If you have any ideas about what to
do I'd be glad to hear from you.
- Some characters printed are not 100% correct. (Sometimes I simply
chose an approximation.)
- Double line corners are not 100% correct.
- The lower two corners of the test program are funny looking when
using code page 850 -- both on screen and on paper.
- The output files are put in the current directory whatever that
is at the time of the dump.
- The search order of .Com and .Exe is not 100% compatible with
"Command.Com" in the case that you have both.
If you find any other bugs, or if you have comments on the program, feel
free to snail-mail a letter to
Morten Welinder
Borups Alle 249b, 3tv
DK-2400 Koebenhavn NV
Denmark
or email to terra@diku.dk -- my student's account at the Department of
Computer Science, University of Copenhagen.
4. Notes
Scr2Tex (barely) complies with version 3.5 of the Alternate Multiplex
Interrupt Specification. It uses the signatures "Sally IS" for
manufacturer and "SCR2TEX " for product name. It hooks interrupts
05h and 2Dh.