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- QL.COM
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- Size (recs) CRC Version Author/Latest Issue Disk
- 8k (63) 6D7D 4.0 Steven Greenberg 8/88 Z3COM7
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- 1- Syntax/Usage 2- Help Screen 3- Notes
-
- QL is a 'Quick Look' typer for reasonably sized libraried or unlibraried,
- crunched, squeezed and normal text and binary files, for Z80 cpu's only under
- CP/M 2.0 or later.
-
- Features include: fast random access paging of libraried or stand-alone,
- crunched, squeezed or normal text files; DDT-like display of binary files,
- crunched, squeezed or normal; easy access to lbr members; page numbering;
- immediate jump to any page; core dumping; fast simple string searching for
- text and hex bytes within files and core for reasonably sized files or as much
- as can be entirely RAM resident.
- :1
-
- Syntax: QL <afn> //where <afn> should not match more than 255 files//
-
- 1. Type QL. A vertically oriented, alphabetized display of all filenames in
- the current du: will be displayed, with a number next to each one.
-
- 2. Pick a number of a file to view. If it's squeezed/crunched, it will be
- taken care of. If it's a library file, you'll be presented with a new
- screen with all the members listed.
-
- 3. Now view the file, one screen at a time. Go forward/backward a page at a
- time, forward line by line, or directly to a specific page by typing the
- 'page' number, or by using the 'find' command to scan for specific text.
-
- 4. Typing '?' will display a help screen which also gives current settings of
- the 'toggles' and a summary of the file, where it is, its size in kbytes
- and number of words and lines if appropriate.
-
- 5. Type ^X (or ESC or Q) to escape to the previous level. ^C (or ^K) will
- instantly exit to CP/M from any point.
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- QL v4.0 /Z3 14 August 1988
-
- --- While viewing --- --- Toggle Commands ---
-
- <cr> Forward one page A Display ASCII / HEX: ASCII
- <sp> Forward one line T Truncate long lines* YES
- <##> Go to any page ## C Case sensitive find: NO
- B Backward one page
- F Find text or hex byte
- R Repeat find
- X Exit viewing //also ESC, ^X, Q//
-
- File: B10:QL .DOC
- Size: 2419 bytes (3k)
- Approx: 53 lines, 396 words.
-
- Command, or <ret> to resume Viewing:
- :3
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- QL Notes:
-
- a. QL will handle 50k for normal text files, 50k for squeezed files after
- unsqueezing, or 28k for crunched files after uncrunching.
-
- b. Version 4.0 provides file extraction for LBR files. At the 'View a
- member:" prompt, enter 'E' for extract mode. A new prompt, 'Extract a
- member:" will appear and any members selected will automatically be
- extracted to the originally logged du: (unsqueesed/uncrunched if
- necessary. QL will not overwrite a pre-existing file without a prompt.
-
- c. Version 4.0 also provides a memory dump option, which can be initiated
- at the first 'select by number' prompt. 'M' will display the current
- system memory (actual addresses). When a file is displayed in HEX mode
- the addresses are correct for a file loaded at 100h. Most commands are
- available during memory dump.
-
- d. To search for hex bytes in HEX mode, precede them with '$'. '$1176AC'
- thus searches for the series of bytes 11h, 76h, 0ACh.