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- CLIPSHOW
-
- by Peter Donnelly
- 1301 Ryan Street
- Victoria BC
- Canada V8T 4Y8
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- This little program is for reviewing your collection of BGI clip art; that
- is, image files created with CLIP, TP-ICON, or a similar program and
- suited for use with the PutImage procedure/function in Turbo Pascal and
- Turbo C.
-
- To run the program, enter a filespec on the command line. A directory path
- and the usual wildcards are accepted.
-
- Optionally you may specify a palette file as the second argument. It is
- assumed that this file is in the same directory as the image file(s); if
- you don't specify an extension, ".PAL" is appended. If you don't specify a
- palette at all, the program will attempt to match each image file with a
- ".PAL" file; for example, it will try to display "ROSE.IM" with the color
- data from a file called "ROSE.PAL". If there is no matching palette file,
- or if it is the wrong type for the present display mode, the default colors
- are used. (See CLIP.DOC for more information on palette files.)
-
- By default the program will run in VGA 640x480 resolution if your system
- supports it, or in EGA 640x350 otherwise. You can force it into EGA mode by
- entering "/e" on the command line as the last argument.
-
- EXAMPLES:
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-
- C:>clipshow daisy
-
- The program will display "DAISY" from the current directory and will set
- the colors from "DAISY.PAL" if that palette file exists and is the right
- type for the default display mode.
-
- C:>clipshow \images\*.im blossoms /e
-
- The program will display all files in C:\IMAGES that have the extension
- ".IM", using the palette file "BLOSSOMS.PAL" from the same directory, and
- will run in EGA mode.
-
- The program looks for any BGI-format image files that match the filespec.
- To weed out non-image files, CLIPSHOW checks the file size against the image
- size calculated from the first two words in the file; so it will not read a
- file that has been appended to.
-
- To proceed to the next image, strike <PgDn> or <Enter>. To quit the
- program, strike <Esc>, <Alt-X>, or <F10>.
-
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- COPYRIGHT NOTICE
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- CLIPSHOW was created with Turbo Pascal, copyright (c) Borland International
- 1987, 1988.
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