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ASCii Character Viewer - By: Garrett Whitney
Released June 27, 1993
ASC is a Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program which is loaded
into memory when it is executed and then exits back to dos with little
program output. ASC will give you a listing of all 256 ASCii characters.
These characters will be displayed on your screen when you press the magic
button. It is very simple to use and should cause you no trouble at all.
To execute ASC, just type ASC.exe from Dos and ASC will load itself
into memory. You should see two lines of text verifying that the loading
was successful. After ASC has exited, just hit the asterik (*) on your
numeric keypad. It must be on the keypad (located above the 9 key), the
SHIFT-8 combination will do nothing but type a * on the screen. After hitting
the * key, the screen should clear and you should get the first 128
characters. You get 5 seconds to view the screen before it clears and the
remaining characters appear.
Please note that after the second screen is displayed, there is a
5 second time delay for viewing and then control is returned back to you.
Your original screen is not displayed and you are left with the second
screen of ASC code. I am working on that problem. I recommend only executing
this from DOS unless you can refresh the display of your screen somehow.
Also notice that when control is returned back to you, you will see no
cursor until you hit a key. Just hit anything and you will see what you
are typing. Hit enter for another Dos prompt.
ASC is really simple to use and requires nothing spectacular.
I recommend the following for ASC to run well on your computer:
286 class processor or better
256K of free memory
(ASC requires almost 15K of memory to remain resident)
Have fun, it's free. Pass it around as it is. Do not modify.
Source code is available upon request and is free as well. Just ask for it.