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- This library contains five files:
-
- (1) README.DOC --- what you are reading now.
- (2) PIBPICT.PQS --- a sample Turbo Pascal program to demonstrate
- the editing facilities of routine
- Picture_Format. (SQUEEZED)
- (3) PICTFORM.PQS --- the code for Picture_Format. (SQUEEZED)
- (4) PIBPICT.DQT --- a data file used by PIBPICT.PAS, containing
- many examples of the use of Picture_Format.
- (SQUEEZED)
- (5) PIBPICT.LQS --- the output resulting from running
- PIBPICT.PAS. (SQUEEZED)
-
- The squeezed files were created using a squeezer that does NOT
- insert the date and time of creation, so almost any unsqueezer
- should work on them. NOTE: A squeezed file is one that has
- been bitwise compressed to save space. To use such a file,
- you must have an unsqueezer program. Most BBSs have at least
- one such program, usually called USQ or NUSQ or something
- similar. To decompress files (2) through (5) above, using a
- program called (for example) USQ, you would enter the following
- DOS commands:
-
- USQ PIBPICT.PQS
- USQ PICTFORM.PQS
- USQ PIBPICT.DQT
- USQ PIBPICT.LQS
-
- As a result, you should get the files PIBPICT.PAS, PICTFORM.PAS,
- PIBPICT.DAT, and PIBPICT.LIS.
-
- The routine Picture_Format contained in file PICTFORM.PAS provides a
- very general commercial picture format editing facility for Turbo
- Pascal. If you have used PL/1, Cobol, or some dialects of Basic,
- then you know what picture format is all about. If you haven't
- encountered picture formats before, then, very briefly, a picture
- format is a string of characters describing exactly how the digits of a
- number should be layed out for printing purposes. This picture
- format contains characters indicating where digits are to be placed,
- if a sign is to included, if commas are to be used, if a dollar
- sign should appear in front of the number, etc.
-
- A complete description of the picture format control characters
- appears in the header to the Picture_Format routine itself.
-
- Please report bugs, enhancements, etc. to me on one of the
- following two Chicago area BBSs:
-
- Gene Plantz's IBBS (312) 882 4227
- Ron Fox's RBBS (312) 940 6496
-
- Thanks,
- Philip R. Burns
- February, 1985