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- Poisson Technology
- 816 Gregory Court, Fremont, CA 94539, U.S.A.
- Phone:415-623-1087 FAX:415-490-5865
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- Finger Maps Version 1.00 Release Note:
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- Finger Maps is a object-oriented drawing package supplemented with
- a comprehensive database of world geographical coordinates. It can
- serve as a stand-alone object drawing program, a world map maker or
- simply a PCX paint image file editor.
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- The finished drawing or map can be saved and converted into a PCX
- bitmap or a proprietary object format. Finger Maps can read other
- PCX files as background image and draw objects on top of it. The
- screen image can be printed to a HP compatible laserjet in 300
- dots/inch. Registered users will get support for both 9-pin and
- 24-pin Epson compatible dot-matrix printers.
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- System Requirements:
- o IBM PC with 384K memory and a 360K floppy drive.
- o VGA or EGA color monitors or B/W CGA or Hercules.
- o (Optional) Microsoft compatible mouse on COM1.
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- Map database contains geographical coordinates of all country
- borders, U.S. state borders, major rivers and lakes, U.S. state
- capitals and other major U.S. cities and foreign capitals.
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- Command Summary:
- *R is for registered user only. Please see REGISTER.DOC.
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- FILE
- Load : load pcx file.
- Save : save the screen image into a PCX file.
- Print : Print the screen image.
- LaserJet : HP LaserJet at 300 dpi.
- Inverse : Inverse the print out color.
- *R Scale : Scale the image both in X and Y directions
- *R Eps-24pin: EPSON 24-pin printer at 180 dpi.
- *R Dotmatrix: EPSON compatible dot-matrix printer
- *R Window : Define the window area to be printed.
- Saveas: save screen into a new PCX filename.
- Load_obj: Load object files.
- Save_obj: Save object files.
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- EDIT
- Undo : Undo the last entered object.
- Copy : Copy objects into redo buffer.
- Cut : Cut objects into Redo buffer.
- Paste : Copy redo buffer objects into screen.
- Redo : Undo the last undo.
- Clear_buf : Clear redo buffer.
- CopyAll : Copy all objects and put into redo buffer.
- EraseAll : Erase all objects and put into redo buffer.
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- MAP
- World : Draw the world map and corner map.
- *R Window : Redefine the window area.
- Redraw : Redraw the window area without corner map.
- Corner : Redraw the corner map.
- *R Zoomin : Magnify the world view by 4x.
- Clear : Clear the screen display.
- Distance: Distance between two points in miles.
- *R Zoomout : Shrink the world view by 4x.
- Refill : redraw FILL object only.
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- OBJECT
- Line : Draw a line.
- Box : Draw a rectangle.
- Circle : Draw a circle.
- Ellipse: Draw a ellipse.
- Text : Enter a line of text.
- Fill : Fill a region enclosed by white boundary lines.
- Redraw : Redraw objects fully enclosed by window area.
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- FILL
- Box : Draw a filled rectangle.
- Circle : Draw a filled circle.
- Ellipse: Draw a filled ellipse.
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- SET
- Line : Select line style.
- Pattern: Select fill pattern for solid objects.
- Color_f: Set drawing color. { default white }
- Color_b: Set background color.{ default black }
- Memory : (Debug use) show available memory in bytes.
- River : Toggle on/off map river data.(default OFF)
- Text : Toggle on/off TEXT object display.(default ON)
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- DISPLAY
- USA : Display US/Canada cities and states.
- City : Display all cities.
- State : Display all states.
- Showall : Show both cities and states.
- Showone : Show all matching data points.
- World : Display foreign capitols and countries.
- City : Display all cities.
- Country : Display all countries.
- Showall : Display both foreign capitol and countries.
- Showone : Show all matching data points.