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- READ.ME
-
- ZVIEW.EXE
- =========
-
- The ZiffNet Viewer Utility
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-
-
- ADDITIONAL COMMANDS
- ===================
-
- Two additional quick-key commands are now available: Alt-E (Expand All) and
- Alt-A (Collapse All). These are shown on the Tree (Alt-T) pull-down menu and
- in the ZVIEW.ZDG documentation file but are not mentioned in Quick Help (F1).
- These two commands Expand All or Collapse All headings, respectively, in the
- Table of Contents screen.
-
-
- COLOR SELECTION AND *.INI FILES
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-
- ZVIEW will automatically detect the presence of a color or monochrome display
- adapter and will default to a basic color scheme for both types of displays.
- However, ZVIEW may get confused by laptop LCD screens or by other hybrid video
- systems (eg. AT&T's 640x400 gray-scale display used on the PC6300 series), and
- you may also wish to change ZVIEW's default color scheme.
-
- ZVIEW uses a file called ZVIEW.INI to store color configuration information.
- This file is created the first time you use the Options, Color menu choice and
- hit Enter or click on [Ok] to exit from the color selection dialog box. If you
- don't make any changes, the resulting ZVIEW.INI file will contain the default
- settings. If you ESCape from the dialog box, the ZVIEW.INI will not be created
- or re-written. ZVW.EXE includes several sample *.INI files.
-
- LCDMONO.INI - sample configuration for gray-scale LCD screens
- ATTMONO.INI - sample configuration for AT&T PC6300 monochrome screens
- HGCMONO.INI - sample configuration for IBM MDA/Hercules displays
- COLOR1.INI - sample configuration for color systems (default setting)
- COLOR2.INI - sample configuration for color (alternative setting)
-
- To try out one of these sample files, COPY (don't rename!) the file you want
- to the configuration filename - ZVIEW.INI. Then load ZVIEW and check the
- results.
-
- You can modify the colors using the Options, Color pull-down menu and save the
- results by pressing Enter to close the dialog box. Then exit and restart ZVIEW
- to see the changes. Because ZVIEW always modifies the same file -- ZVIEW.INI,
- copy this file to a new filename to save the configuration when you arrive at
- a color combination you like.
-
- If your system has a color adapter and a monochrome monitor and the default
- display settings are unsatisfactory, you may want to tell ZVIEW that you are
- using a monochrome display. You can do this by setting an environment variable
- in DOS. The command syntax is:
-
- SET PNLMONO=Y
-
- Use all capital letters. Try this in conjunction with the HGCMONO.INI settings
- for best results. You can test this on a color monitor, as well.
-
- To return ZVIEW to auto-detection mode, just eliminate the DOS environment
- variable. Type:
-
- SET PNLMONO=
-
- This will erase the variable from memory. You can add the SET command to your
- AUTOEXEC.BAT file if you always want ZVIEW to use the monochrome mode.
-
- You could use a batch file to start ZVIEW with your special configuration file
- and/or set the PNLMONO environment variable. The batch file might look like
- this (comments in parenthesis -- don't include them in the actual batch
- file!):
-
- @echo off (Don't display commands)
-
- cd\zview (Change to the ZVIEW subdirectory on the current drive)
-
- SET PNLMONO=Y (Set ZVIEW to use a monochrome display)
-
- copy FOOBAR.INI ZVIEW.INI > NUL (Copy your FOOBAR.INI file to ZVIEW.INI and
- don't display the "1 file(s) copied"
- message.)
-
- ZVIEW %1 (Load ZVIEW. Use the "%1" parameter to pass the name of a
- *.ZDG file to ZVIEW from the command line. If you include
- the name of a *.ZDG file on the command line after the
- batch file command, ZVIEW will load that *.ZDG file
- automatically. If the batch file is named "MYZVIEW.BAT",
- the command "MYZVIEW 386NOT.ZDG" will load the 386NOT.ZDG
- Buyers' Digest file directly into ZVIEW from the current
- directory.)
-
- SET PNLMONO= (Clear the PNLMONO environment variable from memory)
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