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- ASC Jeff Prosise
- Command 1987/No. 5
-
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-
- Purpose: Provides a pop-up ASCII chart showing
- decimal, hexadecimal, and character
- equivalents for the full IBM character set.
-
- Format: [d:][path]ASC
-
- Remarks: ASC.COM is a memory-resident utility that is
- normally loaded at boot-up, via your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Once loaded, pressing
- Alt-A pops up the first page (32 ASCII codes)
- of the display window over any currently
- active applications program. The Up- and
- Down-Arrow, PgUp and PgDn, and Home and End
- keys access the remaining ASCII display
- pages. Pressing Esc closes the window,
- restoring the original screen display.
-
- In operation, ASC.COM requires approximately
- 2.5K of RAM. It is compatible with most
- applications and TSR (terminate and stay
- resident) programs that do not themselves
- require the Alt-A key combination, and it may
- be used with monochrome, color, or EGA
- monitors.
-
- Notes:
-
- 1. Users familiar with using DEBUG can
- modify the default border, text, and
- header colors of ASC.COM. These values,
- initially 0Fh, 1Fh, and 1Eh,
- respectively, are located at offsets
- 014D through 014F in the .COM file. For
- use with a composite monochrome display,
- the values 70h, 07h, and 07h are
- suggested.