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- GeoClock 6.1, 95/01/30 BBS 703-241-7980
-
- This version has some minor improvements from 6.0. That most important
- change is to incorporate the 8x8 and 8x14 font tables into GeoClock
- rather than relying on the video BIOS providing the tables. While these
- tables are *required* by the VGA standard, increasingly they are not
- being supported. The FONT8P14.COM program is no longer required and
- is not included in the distribution files. RMOUSE has been made the
- default since there are some DOS systems that require this, in addition
- to OS/2. The city data bases used by GeoSetup and the GeoClock gazetteer
- have been expensively updated.
-
- The most important new feature is "Options". By pressing the letter "O"
- or clicking the Options icon, a Options menu is displayed which
- allows you to change come of the key parameters interactively.
- The parameters can be changed with a mouse click or using the arrow keys.
- [ENTER] makes the changes the system defaults for all maps until GeoClock
- exits, while [ESCAPE] ignores the changes. [F3] rewrites the GECONFIG.DAT
- files with these changes, make these setting the permanent defaults,
- while [F4] rewrites the applicable GEOn.DAT file with the changes, making
- these setting permanent for that map.
-
- Two minor commands have been added. MAPPLUSn and MAPMINUSn provide script
- functions to change the displayed map. MAPPLUS selects the next higher
- sequential map, while MAPMINUS selects the next lower sequential map.
- The sequence is defined by n:
- 1 - map number
- 2 - map alphabetic order
- and other number - map coverage area
- missing - last sort order from "M"aplist or "F"indmap
- The "+" key acts the same as MAPP, and the "-" acts the same as MAPM.
-
- The syntax of the T command (from the command line or in a script) has
- been expanded to increment or decrement the displayed time, rather than just
- set the displayed time. For example,
- T950101120000 set the time to 1995/01/01 12:00:00, while
- T+1.0 increments the time by 1 day
- T-0.25 decrements the time by 0.25 day (6 hours).
-
- The MAPN, MAPP, and new T syntax can be used with scripts to provide
- programable function keys. For example, if GEOSCR1.DAT contains MAPP1
- pressing 1 selects the next higher map in numerical sequence.
- If GEOSCR2.DAT contains T+0.041666667, pressing 2 increments the time
- by one hour.
-
- Because the addition of the font tables made GeoClock too large to debug
- with turbo pascal 5, I have switched to Borland Pascal (DOS version).
- This *should* not make any difference to users, but who knows.
-
-
- -- Joe Ahlgren 95/01/27
-