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- WSMOOTH
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- Richard Hale Shaw November 13, 1990 (Utilities)
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- Purpose: A text-browsing utility, designed specifically for use in Microsoft
- Windows 3.0, that provides smooth, bi-directional scrolling at user-selectable
- speeds to ease reading from the screen. Its forerunner, SMOOTH.COM, performs
- the same function but was not intended for use in Windows unless run in the
- full-screen.
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- Format: WSMOOTH [filename] [msecs] [pixel rows] [/W]
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- Remarks: WSMOOTH lets you use the mouse or the keyboard to display a
- file and control the scrolling speed. If you invoke SMOOTH without specifying
- a filename, a file selection dialog box will be displayed. Once a file is
- selected, the program will immediately begin scrolling the file in its window.
- Scrolling direction is set using the Up and Down Arrow keys or a single mouse
- click on the arrows on the vertical scroll bar. PgUp and PgDn flip a screenful
- at a time, and Home and End take you to the top or bottom of the file. The
- spacebar or a single left mouse click mouse click will freeze scrolling, and a
- subsequent keystroke or mouse click will resume. You exit WSMOOTH by pressing
- Esc, selecting Exit from the File menu, or double-clicking the System icon.
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- The msecs parameter lets you set the frequency at which WSMOOTH
- scrolls the screen. By default, msecs is set to 100 (milliseconds), so it will
- scroll about 10 times a second; a value of 1000 will cause WSMOOTH to scroll
- approximately every second.
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- The pixel rows parameter (set to 1 by default) lets you adjust the
- number of rows of pixels scrolled, from 1 to 9. While scrolling you can also
- control the number of pixel rows scrolled at a time in three ways: using the
- plus and minus keys; double- and single-clicking the right mouse button; or
- pressing one of the number keys. Zero brings WSMOOTH to a standstill; numbers
- 1-9 steadily increase the rate. Notice that WSMOOTH gets progressively less
- smooth as you increase the pixel row setting toward 9.
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- The /W switch causes WSMOOTH to strip the high bit from each character
- before displaying it. This feature proves useful when viewing WordStar files
- or others that use the high bit to format the document. Try it if a document
- you're viewing occasionally appears to contain graphics characters.
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