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|E║ |5Helpware|E ║ ^1 EZ SCAN |E ║ |5Helpware|E ║
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^C^1Terrance Emerson^0
Have you ever sat staring at a directory listing full of .TXT and
.DOC files and wondered what exactly was in those files? You may
have used the DOS TYPE command, but your file scrolls across the
screen at warp speed in one direction only. Of course you could fire
up your trusty editor, but that takes too long--you just want to take
a peek. What you need is a text file lister!
EZ SCAN is the solution to your dilemma. This powerful,
easy-to-use utility allows you to view your text files on the screen
and print part or all of them to your printer. You can search for
text, set a marker to return to, and set parameters that affect the
way your file is displayed. You can even change the background and
foreground colors of your displayed text. Make your life easier and
your computing environment more productive: Copy EZ.EXE to your
utility directory and make sure that directory is on your path.
Then, from anywhere on your system invoke EZ SCAN to peruse those
mysterious text files.
^C^1Using It Is EZ^0
To invoke EZ SCAN from DOS, simply type ^1EZ^0. You will be
placed in the Main Menu with the default settings listed in the
Current File and View Settings window (more about this later). The
Main Menu has four options that pull down sub-menus: File,
Parameters, About, and Quit. Use the left and right arrow keys to
highlight an option, then press ENTER to select that option. ESCAPE
backs out of any selection or exits EZ SCAN. Pressing F1 provides
you with context-sensitive help from anywhere in the program. The
four Main Menu options are explained below:
^1File^0
This pull-down menu offers 4 selections:
^1View A File^0
Displays files to view from the current drive and directory
and with the set file specs (see below). Move highlight bar
with arrow keys and select with ENTER. Once you have pressed
ENTER, the file will be loaded for viewing and/or printing.
See Viewing And Printing Your File, below.
^1Change Drive^0
Select a physical drive to read from. Up to 6 system drives
are detected and displayed in a menu. Move highlight bar with
arrow keys and select with ENTER. The EZ default setting is
the current DOS drive.
^1Change Directory^0
Select a directory on the current drive. This option builds a
graphic directory tree for up to 255 directories on your
drive. Including file names, paths are supported up to 95
characters, and visual display of the directory tree is
supported to 10 levels with graphic accuracy. Move highlight
bar with arrow keys and select with ENTER. The EZ default
setting is the current DOS directory.
^1Set File Specs^0
Enter a filename or file specs for directory search. Any spec
can be entered, even *.EXE; however, non-text files will
appear as random characters (gibberish). The EZ default
setting is *.*.
^1Parameters^0
This pull-down menu offers 5 selections:
^1No Parameters^0
Displays text files as is with no special formatting used
except that ASCII characters 0 to 15 are removed. Other
control characters embedded by text editors are left intact
and margins are respected. This is the EZ default setting.
^1No Extended Characters^0
Displays text files with all control characters (ASCII
characters 0 to 31) and extended characters removed. Margins
are respected.
^1No Left Margins^0
Displays text files with left margins ignored and ASCII
characters 0 to 15 removed.
^1Word Wrap Lines^0
Displays text files with long lines of text wrapped onto the
next line. Normally, if a line is too long to fit on one
screen line, it is truncated. Word wrapping breaks lines at
word breaks and continues on the next screen line. The EZ
default setting is OFF.
^1Change Display Colors^0
Displays text in 36 color combinations or 2 monochrome
combinations. Use arrow keys to move highlight bar and select
with ENTER. The EZ default setting is light gray on black.
^1About^0
This pull-down menu offers 1 selection:
^1About EZ SCAN^0
Program credits, where published, copyright information.
^1Quit^0
This pull-down menu offers 1 selection:
^1Quit EZ SCAN^0
Quit EZ SCAN and return to DOS or On Disk Monthly Menu.
^C^1Viewing And Printing Your File^0
Once you have selected a file to view, the file is loaded and is
displayed on the screen in accordance with your set parameters. The
following commands are active:
UP ARROW Move up 1 line.
DOWN ARROW Move down 1 line.
PGUP Move up 1 page.
PGDN Move down 1 page.
HOME Move to beginning of file.
END Move to end of file.
CTRL-END Automatic scroll to end of file. Speed of scroll is
controlled by numbers 1 (fastest) to 9 (slowest).
CTRL-PGDN Move to place marker set with F8 if one has been set.
F1 Context-sensitive help. (Help is always available.)
F7 Print all or part of file. Press F1 for help here.
F8 Toggle place marker ON and OFF.
F9 Search for text. Press F1 for help here.
ENTER Searches for next occurrence of entered/marked text.
^C^1Current File And View Settings Window^0
The Current File and View Settings are displayed in the middle of
the Main Menu screen. The EZ SCAN default settings are shown below:
Drive : Current DOS drive
Directory : Current DOS directory
File Spec : *.*
Parameters : No Special Parameters
Word Wrap : OFF
Display Color : Light Gray on Black
^C^1Command Line Parameters^0
To bring up a text file faster for immediate viewing, you can
invoke EZ SCAN from DOS with a text file command line parameter.
Simply type ^1EZ filename^0, where filename is the name of the text
file to view and/or print. You may also include DOS wildcards in the
filename to bring up a list of files to choose from.
To select foreground and background colors from the command line,
type ^1EZ /C color^0, where color is a number from the following list
of foreground/background color combinations:
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01 Light Gray on Black 19 Yellow on Green
02 Green on Black 20 White on Green
03 Cyan on Black 21 Light Gray on Brown
04 Light Blue on Black 22 Light Green on Brown
05 Light Green on Black 23 Yellow on Brown
06 Light Cyan on Black 24 White on Brown
07 Light Red on Black 25 Black on Light Gray
08 Light Magenta on Black 26 Blue on Light Gray
09 Yellow on Black 27 Blue on Light Gray
10 White on Black 28 Red on Light Gray
11 Light Gray on Blue 29 Magenta on Light Gray
12 Light Green on Blue 30 Brown on Light Gray
13 Light Cyan on Blue 31 Dark Gray on Light Gray
14 Light Red on Blue 32 Light Blue on Light Gray
15 Yellow on Blue 33 Light Green on Light Gray
16 White on Blue 34 Light Cyan on Light Gray
17 Black on Green 35 Yellow on Light Gray
18 Light Cyan on Green 36 White on Light Gray
^1--------------------------------------------------------------^0
If you can't remember these numbers (and who could?) simply type
^1EZ /C^0 from the DOS prompt to get this list. Of course, you can
also change the colors from within EZ SCAN itself.
You may use either parameter to start EZ SCAN, but you may not use
both at the same time.
^C^1Outside On Disk Monthly
To run EZ SCAN outside of ^1On Disk Monthly^0, type:
^1EZ^0 or
^1EZ filename^0 or
^1EZ /C color^0.
Disk files this program uses:
^FEZ.EXE