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- M E N U V E R S I O N 1 . 0
-
- Purpose: This command reads a menu or healp screen from an ASCII file and
- displays it directly to the memory map of the selected display
- screen. Any screen attribute can be selected for any part of the
- text.
-
- Format: MENU C [d:][path]fname[.ext] (Color screen)
- or
- MENU M [d:][path]fname[.ext] (Monochrome screen)
-
- Remarks: The attributes are selected by \HH within the text of the file,
- where HH is the 2 digit hex value of the desired attribute for
- the text which follows. E.g. for the monochrome screen, \70 gives
- reverse video, \0F gives bright video, \80 gives flashing text and
- \07 returns you to normal video.
-
- Short lines (less than 80 characters) are padded on the left with
- blank spaces using the regular (\07) video attribute.
-
- Only the first 2500 bytes of the named input file will be
- processed by MENU.
-
- MENU is ideal for fast help screens for DOS or other programs.
-
- Tab (09H) are NOT expanded in this version.
-
- Notes: Written for the IBM PC using DOS 2.0 or later,
- by David Gwillim. For public domain use.