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- SNAPSHOT Steven Holzner
- Command (after running .BAS version)PC Magazine Vol4, No 14
- Copyright 1985 Ziff-Davis Publishing Company
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- Purpose: Saves your current screen and up to three
- additional prefabricated screens for
- immediate display without leaving an
- application program.
-
- Format: SNAPSHOT (loads memory-resident program)
- <Ctrl-N> (stores current screen)
- <Ctrl-F> (displays stored screen)
- <Ctrl-A> (displays screen A.DAT)
- <Ctrl-B> (displays screen B.DAT)
- <Ctrl-C> (displays screen C.DAT)
-
- Remarks: SNAPSHOT is a memory-resident utility that is
- incompatible with programs (such as XyWrite)
- that take control of the keyboard interrupts.
- While written in assembly languge, it is
- presented here with a BASIC interface that
- need be run only once, but which facilitates
- entering the trigger keys you will use to
- store the current screen, recall it, and to
- recall up to three screens you can prepare
- with an ASCII word processor and store under
- the filenames A.DAT, B.DAT, and C.DAT.
-
- When you load and run SNAPSHOT.BAS under
- BASIC you will be prompted for the required
- key selections. Thereafter the program will
- create SNAPSHOT.COM (it takes about two
- minutes), which is a regular DOS command.
-
-
- Option 1: If your regular word processor is WordStar,
- before running SNAPSHOT.BAS you should edit
- it as follows:
-
- 1. In line 30, change the checksum shown from
- 51461 to 51462.
-
- 2. In line 430, change the third number (just
- to the left of the -2) from 0 to 1.
-
- The purpose of these changes is to provide a
- "stripper" function so that WordStar files
- will be readable from other applications.
-