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- VIEW Documentation
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- IFF (ILBM) Picture VIEWer 1.0 - January 1, 1988
- (C) Copyright 1987 Mark Riley, All Rights Reserved.
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- VIEW is a *small* utility for displaying IFF pictures. Now, I realize that
- there are plenty of IFF viewers out there already, but I thought that this
- one would be of interest because of its small size (only 600 bytes.) There's
- no fancy anything in VIEW, since it is optimized for size. This means no
- error messages or built in usage facilities. Thus, VIEW is the smallest,
- tiniest, dirtiest IFF picture VIEWer in town (until some tall dark stranger
- comes up and blows it away... ;-) If you haven't guessed already, VIEW
- is written in assembly language.
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- I'd like to thank Andry Rachmat for posting USHOW 2.0; there were some neat
- tricks for optimizing in it. No doubt VIEW can probably be squeezed in size
- further, but I thought I'd release it and see what someone else can come
- up with.
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- Feel free to redistribute VIEW (for non commercial purposes only.) If there
- are any questions or problems, I can be reached at the following services:
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- PLINK: SONIX - BIX: mriley
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- Happy VIEWing.... ;-) -Mark-
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- P.S. I'll be uploading a more robust version of VIEW that'll interact with
- PLAY (my Sonix score player) and allow people to easily put together
- really polished looking slide shows w/music. Look for it at a BBS
- near you!
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- VIEWing Pictures
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- VIEW is simple to use. You may want to install it into your "c:" directory
- before you use it though. This way it'll be there no matter which directory
- you move to.
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- Usage: VIEW picture
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- Don't use quotes when typing the picture name, even if there are spaces.
- This is because there is no command line parser in VIEW (optimization), so
- what you type is what you get (I think it's actually easier.) If VIEW has
- any problem displaying the picture, it'll just exit, no error message, no
- nothing (sacrifice for optimization.)
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- Once the picture is up, you can use the usual invisible screen drag and
- front/back gadgets to manipulate it.
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- To quit a picture, just type Ctrl-C. The CLI from which you issued the
- VIEW command must be active in order for Ctrl-C to work (this is the case
- if you don't go roaming around to other screens while VIEWing.) Otherwise
- just click in the CLI window and do a Ctrl-C.
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- If you "run" view then issue a "break" to the process number you ran it as.
- Here's an example:
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- 1> run view nagel
- [CLI 2]
- 1> break 2
- 1>
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- Being able to run VIEW, makes it a natural in execute files (slide shows)
- since you can quit it remotely with a break command:
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- 1> type slideshow
- run >nil: view nagel
- wait 10
- break 2
- run >nil: view nagel2
- wait 10
- break 2
- 1> execute slideshow
- 1>
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