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V-EDIT / FCON / VSETUP HELP
VERSION 1.2
WHAT DO I DO?
1. UNCOMPRESS FILE "YES I KNOW YOU ALREADY DID THAT!"
2. MAKE A DIRECTORY CALLED "X:\VED" WHERE "X" IS A VALID HARD DRIVE
LETTER. THE DIRECTORY HAS TO BE A MAIN ROOT, IT CAN NOT BE NESTED
OR "V-EDIT" WILL NOT FIND ALL OF ITS FILES AND CRASH.
3. COPY ALL FILES TO THE "\VED" DIRECTORY.
4. MAKE SURE ANSI.SYS IS LOADED.
4B. IF YOU HAVE A COPY OF "SQZANSI.EXE" COPY IT TO THE "\VED"
DIRECTORY.
5. TYPE "VSETUP + ENTER"
6. "VSETUP" LOOKS AT YOUR MACHINE AND CREATES A "NEXT.DAT" FILE
ACCORDING TO WHAT IT FINDS.
7. EITHER TYPE "V + ENTER" TO RUN BATCH FILE OR "VEDIT + ENTER."
8. "VEDIT" LOADS...IF IT DOESN'T READ VHELP2.HLP IN A TEXT EDITOR
AND CALL US.
9. PRESS "F1" FOR "VEDIT" COMMAND HELP, OR PRESS "ESCAPE" TO ENTER
"FCON" AND PRESS THE COMMAND HELP, "ALT + H" READ MORE STUFF.
HINT: IF YOU DON'T LIKE SEEING THE "C:\VED" DIRECTORY COME UP
ALL THE TIME IN "FCON" THEN START IT FROM WHATEVER DEFAULT
DIRECTORY YOU WANT. EITHER PUT V.BAT IN SOME DIRECTORY
THATS IN ONE OF YOUR PATHS...AND EDIT THE CALLS, OR ADD
THE \VED DIRECTORY TO YOUR PATH, OR JUST START IT BY
TYPING "X> C:\VED\V" OR USE THE DOS SET COMMAND AND ADD
IT TO YOUR AUTOEXEC.BAT FILE.
NOTE: PLEASE READ HELP IN "FCON" BEFORE USING THE PASTE FUNCTION.
OTHER THAN THAT, THESE ARE THE FILES INCLUDED WITH "V-EDIT"
BLOKSCRN.FMN 1913 SAMPLE SCREEN
CHANGES.TXT 1553 NEW STUFF ABOUT "VEDIT 1.2"
DIAGSCRN.FMN 1881 SAMPLE SCREEN
FCON.EXE 172187 FORMAT CONVERTER, FILE MANAGER, PLUS
OHANSI.SCR 778 POEM WRITTEN BY A MUTANT, IN ANSI FORMAT
V.BAT 114 BATCH FILE TO SAVE & RESTORE PROMPT, RUN "VEDIT"
VCHELP.HLP 10006 "VEDIT" COMMAND HELP
VDOC.PRN 13473 COPY VDOC.PRN LPT1: ORDER FORM GRAPHICS PRINT FUNC.
VEDIT.EXE 82209 "VEDIT" SCREEN EDITOR
VHELP1.HLP 19041 "FCON" HELP FILE 1
VHELP2.HLP 15660 "FCON" HELP FILE 2
VSETUP.EXE 34018 INI. SET UP UTILITY A MUST FOR "VEDIT"
README.1ST 9301 THIS FILE
Q 2255 PLAY FILE, PROGRAM ENDING
WIERD.FMN 5245 SAMPLE SCREEN SHOWING 5 POSSIBLE BORDERS FROM 1 COLOR
ATTRIBUTE SET. FUNCTION CONTROL V, SEE CHANGES.TXT
TOTAL BYTES: 369634
******************************************************************************
GENERAL INFO ON PCB CODES, HEART CODES, ESCAPE SEQUENCES...........
COLOR CODES ONLY
VBBS HEART CODES:
I = BRITE OR INTENSE FOREGROUND COLOR ON BACKGROUND COLOR
0 WHITE ON BLACK I I BLUE ON BROWN
1 I CYAN ON BLACK J YELLOW ON BLUE
2 I YELLOW ON BLACK K CYAN ON BLUE
3 MAGENTA ON BLACK L WHITE ON BLUE
4 I WHITE ON BLUE M I WHITE ON MAGENTA
5 I GREEN ON BLACK N BLACK ON CYAN
6 I RED ON BLACK O BLACK ON WHITE
7 I BLUE ON BLACK P RED ON WHITE
8 BROWN ON BLACK Q BLUE ON WHITE
9 CYAN ON BLACK R I WHITE ON WHITE
A GREEN ON BLACK S I RED ON WHITE
I I MAGENTA ON BLACK T I BLUE ON WHITE
C I WHITE ON RED U I WHITE ON BLACK
D I YELLOW ON RED V BLACK ON RED
E I CYAN ON RED W BLACK ON BLUE
F WHITE ON RED X BLACK ON MAGENTA
G BLUE ON GREEN Y I WHITE ON GREEN
H I RED ON BROWN Z I WHITE ON CYAN
BECAUSE OF ALTERATIONS TO THE CONVERT ENGINE IN ORDER TO MAKE THE SMALLEST
OUTPUT FILES AVAILABLE, WE HAD TO SIMULATE ALL POSSIBLE COLOR COMBINATIONS
IN VBBS. FOR EXAMPLE: "RED ON BLACK" ISN'T AVAILABLE, IN "VBBS" SO IF USED
IN VEDIT, IT WILL BE CONVERTED TO "I RED ON BLACK."
WE TRYED TO MAKE THE MOST SENSIBLE CHOICES FOR ALTERNATIVE COLORS, HOWEVER
IF YOU FEEL ONE COLOR SHOULD BE ANOTHER, WE'LL BE GLAD TO CHANGE IT FOR YOU.
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PCB @X CODES
COLOR CODES ONLY
FORMAT: @X## WHERE @X IS CONSTANT, 1ST # = BACKGROUND COLOR,
2ND # = FOREGROUND COLOR.
COLOR BACKGROUND 1ST # FOREGROUND 2ND #
NORMAL BLINKING NORMAL INTENSE
BLACK 0 8 0 8
BLUE 1 9 1 9
GREEN 2 A 2 A
CYAN 3 B 3 B
RED 4 C 4 C
MAGENTA 5 D 5 D
YELLOW/BROWN 6 E 6 E
WHITE/GREY 7 F 7 F
AT MACRO COMMANDS? WE COULD HAVE ADDED THEM WITHIN "VEDIT" BUT WHY?
IT ONLY MAKES OUR "EXE" BIGGER, FOR SOMETING YOU
COULD EASILY TYPE IN. WELL, MAYBE IN VERSION 2.0!
SEE THE NEWEST VERSION OF "PC BOARD" FOR THE LATEST
LIST OF THESE COMMANDS.
* NOTE: V-EDIT USES A DEFAULT "FOREGROUND" COLOR OF "7" WHITE FOR ALL OF ITS
CONVERSIONS. MINOR EDITING MAY HAVE TO BE PERFORMED WHEN LOADING
FILES MADE IN OTHER SCREEN EDITORS, ESPECIALLY IF THE SCREENS INCLU-
DED STRAY CHARACTERS PRINTED IN "BLACK ON BLACK," ONCE EDITED OUT AS
SPACE OR DELETED THEY WILL NOT RETURN. THIS TYPE OF PROBLEM IS NOT
A "BUG" IN OUR PROGRAM, BUT ONLY AN INCOMPATABILITY. USING THE DEFAULT
COLOR OF WHITE ENABLES US TO DISPLAY ASCII TEXT WITHOUT CREATING AN
ENTIRELY NEW FORMAT. THESE TYPES OF PROBLEMS WILL MORE THAN LIKELY
HAPPEN WHEN CONVERTING VERY LIVELY DRAWINGS TO VBBS CODE, SINCE THE
AVAILABLE COLOR COMBINATIONS ARE ONLY 36 OUT OF A POSSIBLE 255.
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ANSI ESCAPE SEQUENCES
COLOR CODES ONLY
CLEAR ATTRIBUTES
FOREGROUND COLOR;BACKGROUND COLOR;(EITHER "m" TO END SEQUENCE OR POSSIBLE
5;1m = BLINKING;INTENSE)
";" SEMICOLON USED BETWEEN ATTRIBUTES, NO SPACES
ALL COLOR SEQUENCES END WITH "m" LOWER CASE "M"
AGAIN NO SPACES.
IF YOU'RE READING THIS FILE FROM THE DOS COMMAND LINE PROMPT
THE FOLLOWING CODES WILL ACTUALLY DO SOMETHING, INSTEAD OF
PRODUCING VISIBLE TEXT CODES.
SO....
OR
OR
OR
GET THE IDEA? IF NOT I RECOMMEND READING: "PC BATCH FILE LAB NOTES"
COLOR FOREGROUND BACKGROUND
BLACK 30 40
RED 31 41
GREEN 32 42
BROWN/YELLOW 33 43
BLUE 34 44
MAGENTA 35 45
CYAN 36 46
WHITE/GREY 37 47
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NOTES ABOUT "VEDIT"
THIS PROGRAM WAS WRITTEN FOR THE PURPOSE OF CONVERTING FROM PCB CODE
TO VBBS CODE TO ANSI CODE. RELENTLESSLY WE HAVE ACHIEVED THE SMALLEST
AVAILABLE OUTPUT FILES FOR ALL OF OUR FORMATS!
A WORD ABOUT "THE SMALLEST" IN THE FUTURE OTHER EDITORS WILL BE ABLE
TO MATCH OUR SIZES, BUT IT IS NOT TECHNICALLY POSSIBLE TO REDUCE
FURTHER, UNLESS PCB OR VBBS FORMAT CHANGES.
ALSO BEFORE YOU MAKE YOUR COMPARISONS, TAKE THEIR SAMPLE SCREENS AND
RESAVE THEM IN THEIR OWN EDITOR'S FIRST, AND MAKE IT FAIR...WE SAVE
IN 24 LINES. REASON BEING IT IS POSSIBLE TO USE DOS EDIT AND MANUALLY
REMOVE REDUNDANT CODE, THEREBY REDUCING THE SIZE OF YOUR OUTPUT FILE.
WE HAVE TRIED TO SAVE YOU THIS TROUBLE.
I'VE HEARD THOUGH THAT THE NEW PCB 15.0 HAS AVAILABLE CURSOR POSITION
CONTROLS. YOU COULD DRAW SOMETHING, BLOCK IT, MOVE IT TO THE UPPER
LEFT HAND CORNER OF THE V-EDIT SCREEN, AND THEN TYPE IN YOUR PCB
MACRO. WHEN YOUR FILE IS SAVED BY V-EDIT ALL EXTRA BLANK LINES AND
SPACES WILL BE REMOVED.
10. PAY US!
LATER,
WIZARD.................