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- Copyright (c) 1986 William T Morrison IV
-
- You may copy and distribute this program freely, provided that:
- 1) No fee is charged for such copying and distribution
- 2) It is distributed ONLY in its original, unmodified state.
-
- Address all correspondence to :
- Bill Morrison IV
- 34762 Oak Ave
- Inglside, IL 60041
-
- Or leave a message on The Picture Bulletin Board - 301 588-9079
-
- Acknowledgments
- MTI (Phoenix Bulletin Board - 618 233-2315) - for getting me addicted to
- MacPaint pictures in the first place.
- Bruce Guthrie (SYSOP) at The Picture Bulletin Board - for convincing me
- someone else might be interested in these programs.
- Richard Byrne - for showing me that the HP Laser Jet does print nicely,
- and showing me the error of my ways.
-
-
- READ - Reads MacPaint format pictures, and displays them on a PC. The
- program selects the highest resolution, from an EGA, Color or
- Hercules Card.
-
- WARNING, the program assumes that if you have a monochrome card
- that it is a Hercules Card. The program gives no indication of
- monitor type. This is fatal on a IBM Monochrome card, and you
- have to reboot to recover.
-
- MacPaint pictures should have the extension of .MAC, or so is
- the convention. When the program asks for a file name if no
- extension is specified, a default of .MAC is added. If a period
- exists on the line the default is not used.
-
- ENTRY FORMAT:
- READ [/T] [filename]
-
- /T - Timer: This causes the picture to be displayed for T seconds,
- then exit. This parameter, if present, must occur before
- the filename.
-
- filename - Initial picture to be displayed.
-
-
- Command available once a picture is loaded.
-
- Movement of the picture:
- UP DOWN Moves the picture 1 row at a time.
- PAGE UP PAGE DOWN Moves the picture 10 rows at a time.
- CRTL PAGE UP CTRL PAGE DOWN Moves the picture one half frame at a time.
- HOME END Moves the picture to the Top / Bottom.
-
- Other Keys:
- E or ESC Exit the program.
- L Load a new picture.
- P Print the current picture.
- S Set up the 'other printer' on the printer menu. This
- will also save the current color settings as default
- color setting.
-
- For Color (CGA, EGA) users:
- F1 - F2 Increment / Decrement foreground color.
- F3 - F4 Increment / Decrement background color.
-
-
- MACPRT - Prints MacPaint format pictures, without displaying them on a PC.
-
- ENTRY FORMAT:
-
- PRINTMAC [/T] filename
-
- /T - Print the filename (without extention and path) on the
- top line of the page.
-
- filename - Pictures to be printed. May contain wild cards.
-
-
- PRINTER FORMAT -
- Both READ and MACPRT have the same internal printer table. This table is
- near the end of the program. This is the format of the table should
- modifying the table seem necessary. The file OTHER.PRT is one table
- entry written to disk, 49 bytes long. This is the printer table format:
-
- 'PRINTER TABLE***' ;header
- 1 byte ;Type of printer:
- 1 laser
- 8 dot matrix (8 pin)
-
- ;Set up - 8/72 linefeed
- 1 byte ;Length of this print string
- 15 bytes ;Print string to send, zero filled
-
- ;Print Graphics characters (1)
- 1 byte ;Length of this print string
- 15 bytes ;Print string to send, zero filled
-
- ;Reset printer to normal
- 1 byte ;Length of this print string
- 15 bytes ;Print string to send, zero filled
-
- (1) The count of bytes sent to the printer to make up one row is 576 for a
- dot matrix (type 8) printer, and 72 for a laser printer (type 1).
-