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- READ.ME
-
- ZVIEWP.EXE
- ==========
-
- The ZiffNet OS/2 Viewer Utility
- ===============================
-
-
- INSTALLING ZVIEWP
- =================
-
- ZVIEWP.EXE is an OS/2-compatible (v1.3 and v2.0) version of ZVIEW, the
- ZiffNet text viewer utility. It will run as a command-line utility or from
- the Workplace shell. Included in this ZVWOS2.EXE self-extracting archive is
- RHPANELP.DLL, the DLL file for ZVIEWP's menu system. Once you have
- de-compressed ZVWOS2.EXE, you should copy RHPANELP.DLL to one of the
- directories included in the OS/2 CONFIG.SYS LIBPATH= statement, so it will
- always be accessible to ZVIEWP.
-
- ZVIEWP is functionally identical to DOS ZVIEW, and the rest of this READ.ME
- file is taken from the READ.ME for the DOS version of ZVIEW. Adapt the
- suggestions below to your specific needs and setup under OS/2.
-
-
- ADDITIONAL COMMANDS
- ===================
-
- Two additional quick-key commands are now available: Alt-E (Expand All) and
- Alt-A (Collapse All). These are shown on the Tree (Alt-T) pull-down menu
- and in the ZVIEW.ZDG documentation file but are not mentioned in Quick Help
- (F1). These two commands Expand All or Collapse All headings, respectively,
- in the Table of Contents screen.
-
-
- COLOR SELECTION AND *.INI FILES
- ===============================
-
- ZVIEW will automatically detect the presence of a color or monochrome
- display adapter and will default to a basic color scheme for both types of
- displays. However, ZVIEW may get confused by laptop LCD screens or by other
- hybrid video systems (eg. AT&T's 640x400 gray-scale display used on the
- PC6300 series), and you may also wish to change ZVIEWP's default color
- scheme.
-
- ZVIEW uses a file called ZVIEW.INI to store color configuration
- information. This file is created the first time you use the Options, Color
- menu choice and hit Enter or click on [Ok] to exit from the color selection
- dialog box. If you don't make any changes, the resulting ZVIEW.INI file
- will contain the default settings. If you ESCape from the dialog box, the
- ZVIEW.INI will not be created or re-written. ZVW.EXE includes several
- sample *.INI files.
-
- LCDMONO.INI - sample configuration for gray-scale LCD screens
- ATTMONO.INI - sample configuration for AT&T PC6300 monochrome screens
- HGCMONO.INI - sample configuration for IBM MDA/Hercules displays
- COLOR1.INI - sample configuration for color systems (default setting)
- COLOR2.INI - sample configuration for color (alternative setting)
-
- To try out one of these sample files, COPY (don't rename!) the file you
- want to the configuration filename - ZVIEW.INI. Then load ZVIEW and check
- the results.
-
- You can modify the colors using the Options, Color pull-down menu and save
- the results by pressing Enter to close the dialog box. Then exit and
- restart ZVIEW to see the changes. Because ZVIEW always modifies the same
- file -- ZVIEW.INI, copy this file to a new filename to save the
- configuration when you arrive at a color combination you like.
-
- If your system has a color adapter and a monochrome monitor and the default
- display settings are unsatisfactory, you may want to tell ZVIEW that you
- are using a monochrome display. You can do this by setting an environment
- variable in DOS. The command syntax is:
-
- SET PNLMONO=Y
-
- Use all capital letters. Try this in conjunction with the HGCMONO.INI
- settings for best results. You can test this on a color monitor, as well.
-
- To return ZVIEW to auto-detection mode, just eliminate the environment
- variable. Type:
-
- SET PNLMONO=
-
- This will erase the variable from memory. You can add the SET command to
- your AUTOEXEC.BAT file if you always want ZVIEW to use the monochrome mode.
-
- You could use a batch file to start ZVIEW with your special configuration
- file and/or set the PNLMONO environment variable. The batch file might look
- like this (comments in parenthesis -- don't include them in the actual
- batch file!):
-
- @echo off (Don't display commands)
-
- cd\zview (Change to the ZVIEW subdirectory on the current drive)
-
- SET PNLMONO=Y (Set ZVIEW to use a monochrome display)
-
- copy FOOBAR.INI ZVIEW.INI > NUL (Copy your FOOBAR.INI file to ZVIEW.INI
- and don't display the "1 file(s)
- copied" message.)
-
- ZVIEW %1 (Load ZVIEW. Use the "%1" parameter to pass the name of
- a *.ZDG file to ZVIEWP from the command line. If you
- include the name of a *.ZDG file on the command line
- after the batch file command, ZVIEWP will load that
- *.ZDG file automatically. If the batch file is named
- "MYZVIEW.BAT", the command "MYZVIEW 386NOT.ZDG" will
- load the 386NOT.ZDG Buyers' Digest file directly into
- ZVIEW from the current directory.)
-
- SET PNLMONO= (Clear the PNLMONO environment variable from memory.)
-
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