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- I.DOC for I.COM V. 2, A Text File Utility Program 1/12/84
-
- I.COM allows viewing of files of any length by filling memory with as
- much of the file as will fit (about 55K max). The file, or portion of
- a file, in memory may be scrolled through, paged forward or
- backwards, searched, and skipped through in 124 line jumps. You can
- jump to the first page or the last page and print any page. When you
- are through with the current buffer contents, you can load the next
- part of a large file or another file or you can quit with a warm boot.
-
- To use I.COM you may enter the file name after the program name, i.e.
- I B:LISTING.ASM or let the program prompt you for the file name. It
- will then load the file into memory and display the first page.
- Commands, all of which are single characters may then be entered.
-
- The commands are:
-
- SP - Print the next line to the console
- V - Print the next page to the console
- Z - Print the last page to the console
- S - Search for a string, forward
- C - Continue search for current string
- P - Print the current page to LST device
- N - Get a new file
- M - Get the next part of a file
- , - Skip back 124 lines
- < - Skip back to the start
- . - Skip forward 124 lines
- > - Skip forward to the end
- Q - Quit with a warm boot
-
- The search command prompts (with a '?') for a string of up to 16
- characters. If the string is not found 'No' is printed, otherwise the
- next screen ending in the line containing the string is printed. The
- continue command resumes the search, with the same string, on the
- next line.
-
- All letter commands and file names may be upper or lower case.
- Ambiguous names are not allowed. The file extension may be anything
- other than .COM, but it will look pretty weird if the file isn't a
- text file.
-
- Mark Boyd, Computer Science Department
- Wichita State University
- Wichita, KS 67208
-