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- XIV - PORTCLOK.COM - Portfolio Clock Display TSR V2.1
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- Purpose: PORTCLOK is designed to display the current time of day
- in either the upper left or upper right hand corner of
- the Portfolio's LCD screen. The display is active when
- in DOS as well as when runnning internal and external
- applications.
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- Usage: PORTCLOK
- There are no user supplied parameters used with
- Portclok. When executed for the first time, the
- program diplays a menu which allows you to select
- one of three options. The first two options determine
- where the clock will be displayed while the third
- allows you to abort the clock installation. Once the
- location has been selected PortClok installs itself
- as a Terminate and Stay Resident (TSR) program
- and automatically begins displaying the current time
- of day in the location you selected. The display
- format is 'HH:MM'.
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- When PortClok is executed a second time the menu
- changes and the first two options allow you to toggle
- the display on or off while the third option exits the
- program without changing the status of the display.
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- Since Portclok updates the time of day display by
- writing directly to the video RAM as opposed to
- writting directly to the screen the display is only
- updated when the screen is refreshed, therfore it is
- recommended that the refresh rate be set to 'KEYS' or
- 'BOTH'. Setting the refresh rate to these modes means
- that under the few circumstances (such as when the
- display is scrolling quickly, or when exiting one of
- the Portfolio's internal applications) when the display
- may be disrupted, the display will be quickly updated.
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- While the file Portclok.Com file is 1737 bytes long,
- only 512 bytes of memory are utilized for the TSR
- portion. The rest of the code is deleted when the
- program goes to end of task.
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- Display: Portclok will work in all three external display modes,
- normal, tracked, and static, however, as with all
- Portfolio Tool Kit software, normal mode is
- recommended. It is important to remember that for best
- results the refresh rate should be set to 'KEYS' or
- 'BOTH'.
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- EXAMPLE: a:> portclok
- Portfolio Clock Display TSR V2.1
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- Clock display is now installed.
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- Centennial Software Systems (c) 1990
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