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- Appendix for Explosiv 2.02
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- Explanation of Command Line
-
- Switches and Display Parameters for DOS version
-
- This is the entire list of options supported by version
- 2.02 of the Explosiv screen saver. The interface was
- designed so that you will never have to know or use the
- majority of these options. However, they are all
- listed here only for reference. The options that are
- useful to know are:
-
-
- Explosiv ;run the interface
- Explosiv - ;read the configuration file
- Explosiv on ;activate (normal, herc=text)
- Explosiv +on ;activate (animate,
- herc=graphics 0)
- Explosiv -on ;activate (blank,
- herc=graphics 1)
- Explosiv remove ;remove the tsr
-
- all the other options can be and should be controlled
- by the interface. A complete list of options is listed
- below:
-
- aranea - Show the named display. Use the delay factor to
- slow the drawing and object level to increase the number
- of points drawn.
-
- blank - This is the only display that does not halt the
- underlying program when it is resident. The delay factor
- and object variable have no meaning. No mouse support
- is given to this display if it is resident.
-
- clock - This display is the only non-graphical display in
- Explosiv. For this reason it will be used whenever the
- video card is an mda. In fact, if an mda card is used
- then blank and clock are the only valid displays. All
- other displays except blank revert to the clock. Although
- a delay factor is not used an object level of 1 does
- signify that you wish the clock to be drawn with the
- standard rather than extended ascii character set.
-
- fireworks - Show the named display. Use the delay factor
- to slow the drawing and the object level to increase
- the number of fireworks drawn at one time.
-
- gyro - Show the named display. Use the delay factor to
- slow the image and the object level to specify whether
- you want one specific object or a random selection.
-
- trees - This display uses the delay factor normally. The
- object level specifies how many secondary branches
- should be drawn. That is, how many branches should
- connect to the trunk of the tree.
-
- on - This option will turn the screen saver on. If the
- monitor is hercules then this also tells the screen
- saver to restore the screen to text mode. If the
- monitor is not hercules then this tells the screen saver
- to use the animation when possible and to blank the
- screen when it feels that the screen cannot be saved
- properly ( for example, in graphics modes ).
-
- +on - This option will turn the screen saver on. If the
- monitor is hercules then this also tells the screen
- saver to restore the screen to graphics mode ( page 0
- ). If the monitor is not hercules then this tells the
- screen saver to use the animation when possible and not
- to screen save then it feels that the screen cannot be
- saved properly ( for example, in graphics modes ).
-
- -on - This option will turn the screen saver on. If the
- monitor is hercules then this also tells the screen
- saver to restore the screen to graphics mode ( page 1
- ). If the monitor is not hercules then this tells the
- screen saver to blank the screen under all possible
- circumstances.
-
- off - This option will turn the screen saver off.
-
- +video - This option tells the screen saver that it
- should check for screen writes through bios. Any
- character that is written to the screen will reset the
- screen savers timer.
-
- -video - This option tells the screen saver that it
- should not check for screen writes through the bios.
- Any character that is written to the screen will not
- reset the screen savers timer. This option should be
- used if you are using some sort of RAM resident clock.
-
- small - This option is only used by ega and vga. This
- tells the screen saver not to allocate extra memory to
- handle 43/50 line modes. Only enough memory will be
- allocated to save 25 line mode. This saves about 4K in
- memory.
-
- fonts - This option is used if you wish to save the
- current font. Most programs use the standard font which
- Explosiv should be able to correctly restore. If,
- however, a program defines its own font then to save it
- properly you must specify this option. Using this
- option does not automatically mean that the font will be
- saved. Explosiv uses a compression technique to save
- the 8K font page in 4K. Under most circumstances this
- compression is possible and the screen can be properly
- restored. If Explosiv decides that it is not possible
- to save the font is 4K ( for example, when a 512 character
- set is used ) then the screen will be blanked. In most
- cases the fonts will be properly saved. This option is
- ONLY used if you have a VGA monitor ( it will not work
- for EGA ).
-
- mono - This option specifies that the display should be
- in monochrome.
-
- color - This option specifies that the display should be
- in color.
-
- d<n> - This option specifies the delay factor that should
- be used if possible. Here <n> is a number from 1 to
- 255. By default, Explosiv will check you CPU and
- generally deduce the proper delay factor. This option
- should only be used if you find the default unreasonable.
- Run the command
- Explosiv ?
- to find the default delay for your CPU.
-
- m<n> - This option must be used if Explosiv is to become
- a screen saver. Here <n> ranges from 1 to 30 (?) and
- refers to how many minutes of inactivity Explosiv
- should wait before activating.
-
- e<n> - This option specifies the object level. This
- value ranges from 1 to 9 where the default is 4. Not
- all displays use this option and those that do not
- always use it in the same way. See above for details.
-
- ? - This option will display the help screen. This will
- give you information such as hot keys, Explosiv
- directory, monitor type, delay factor, multiplex number
- and some simple options to use.
-
- - - This option specifies to read the configuration
- file. Actually any argument not listed here will have
- the same effect. The screen saver will parse the
- command line. If an argument exists and no argument
- given is one of the ones listed here then Explosiv will
- read the configuration file.
-
- remove - This option tells Explosiv to remove the resident
- copy of the screen saver from memory. If this is not
- possible because other TSRs are loaded above Explosiv
- then a message will be printed and the screen saver
- will remain active and resident.
-
- vga - This option specifies that you wish to override the
- Explosiv auto-detection and assume you are using a vga
- monitor.
-
-
- ega - This option specifies that you wish to override
- the Explosiv auto-detection and assume you are using an
- ega monitor.
-
- mcga - This option specifies that you wish to override
- the Explosiv auto-detection and assume you are using a
- mcga monitor. This option is functionally equivalent
- to cga.
-
- cga - This option specifies that you wish to override the
- Explosiv auto-detection and assume you are using a cga
- monitor. This option is functionally equivalent to
- mcga.
-
- herc - This option specifies that you wish to override
- the Explosiv auto-detection and assume that you are
- using a hercules monitor.
-
- mda - This option specifies that you wish to override the
- Explosiv auto-detection and assume that you are using
- an mda monitor. If you are using mda then the only
- displays that will be valid are blank and clock. See
- the section on clock above.
-
- default - This option sets the screen saver to the default
- delay factor. Use this to reset a resident copy of
- the screen saver to the default setting.
-