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- Tiny Viewer is a public domain program. This copy was supplied with 4FILES,
- and was obtained from the shareware distribution of DOSREF by Dave Williams.
-
- I have found TV to be useful with 4FILES because the display uses all
- rows on a 25-row screen, and it shows text in whatever text colors are setup
- in 4FILES. Buerg's LIST or the 4DOS internal LIST command may be more to
- your liking however, since they have a "find" feature, which TV lacks.
-
- Neither of the LISTs will display with a dark grey background, which is what
- I like; TV handles it fine. One thing you may miss in TV is an indication of
- what line you are on (but hey, it's free!). Since the browser is the first
- item on the 4FILES configuration menu and since 4FILES no longer needs a full
- filespec for utility ports (it now searches the PATH), switching between LIST
- and TV.COM takes only moments, and you may use the change session-only if you
- wish.
-
- TV will operate only in 80x25 video text modes.
-
- The original documentation follows:
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- │ TinyView (TV) Doc File - Version 1.0 │
- ╘══════════════════════════════════════╛
-
- Welcome to TinyView (called TV from here on)! This program is the best
- text file viewer your ever going to see. It's tiny (958 bytes), it can
- view ANY size text file, it displays lines up to 1024 characters wide,
- and it uses all 25 lines of your display. How does TV do all of this?
- Through the magic of assembler. This program is written in 100% pure
- assembly language for the smallest, fastest program possible. When you
- want to view a file you type:
-
- TV filename.ext (Paths and drive letters are fully supported)
-
-
- ┌───────────────┐
- │ HOW TO USE TV │
- └───────────────┘
- After TV loads your file you will be presented with a FULL screen of
- data WITHOUT any kind of status line to clutter up your display. How
- do you go up and down through the file you ask? You use the keys that
- would make the most sense, of course! The keys that TV uses are:
-
- PgUp - Go up 1 page
- PgDn - Go down 1 page
- Home - Go to the top of the file
- End - Go to the end of the file
- - Move up one line
- - Move down one line
- -> - Move screen right 10 columns
- <- - Move screen back to left margin
- ESC - Quit TV and exit to DOS
-
-
- ┌────────────────┐
- │ HIDDEN GOODIES │
- └────────────────┘
- Just because TV is small doesn't mean it's not potent. (Have any of
- you ladies heard a guy say that lately?). TV filters and properly
- displays ALL 256 characters from the IBM character set. Who cares you
- say? You would if TV didn't do that. You see, some of the IBM
- character set can produce "strange" results if your viewer doesn't
- properly handle the character. Try using TV on a file that contains
- the ASCII character number 9 (TAB), 10 (line feed), or a 12 (form feed)
- and see what happens. Now, use your file viewer and see what happens.
- That's when you'll really appreciate the "hidden goodies" of TV!
-
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- ┌─────────────┐
- │ FINAL NOTES │
- └─────────────┘
- One final note: TV is to be considered a Public Domain program. What
- does that mean? It means that you can freely give this program to
- anyone who wants a copy. As a matter of fact I encourage you to give
- this program to everyone, whether or not they want it (grin)! The only
- stipulation to this offer is this: you must include the file TV.DOC
- with evey copy of TV.COM that you give away. Not too tough, huh?
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