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- RAMVIEW
- Command
-
- Frank Dever and David Thomas 1988 No. 14 (Utilities)
-
-
- Purpose: Provides pop-up display and string searches of RAM contents, in ASCII
- and hex, from within an application.
-
- Format: [d:][path]RAMVIEW
-
- Remarks:RAMVIEW is a memory-resident utility that may be installed either at
- the DOS prompt or as a command in an AUTOEXEC.BAT file. Its default hotkey is
- Alt-R, and it will pop up in any text mode that is at least 80-columns wide.
- To exit RAMVIEW and return to your application, press the Esc key. Executing
- RAMVIEW a second time uninstalls the utility if no other Terminate-and-Stay
- Resident (TSR) programs have been loaded after it.
-
- RAM addresses are displayed both in absolute and in conventional
- segment:offset form. The G (Goto) key is used to display the contents of
- memory at a specific address.
-
- Pressing A or H allows entry of an ASCII or hexadecimal search string
- of up to 20 characters. When using Hex entries each byte must be represented
- by two characters. The bytes may be separated by a space. Pressing Enter
- starts the search beginning at the current memory location. To scan for the
- next match, press N (Next). When no more matches are found, the address is
- reset to 0000:0000.
-
- The Up- and Down-arrow keys are used to shift the memory display by
- one line (16 bytes). PgUp and PgDn move the display by a screen page (368
- bytes). The Home and End keys set the memory display to the beginning and end
- of the 1MB address space.
-
- Instructions for changing the default Alt-R hotkey are contained in
- the article, as is a table showing the main memory areas of the PC/XT/AT.
-