Category : Communication (modem) tools and utilities
Archive   : EZPV11.ZIP
Filename : HOW2READ

All of the document files were encased in our own self displaying utility
engine, SHOW.COM. Aside from allowing you to easily view our documentation
files on your monitor, there are many features you can control; such as
changing the display color, printing the text, making an ascii text copy
etc. For additional information, we have taken some excerpts from
SHOW's documentation and placed it below.

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SHOW incorporates a few features not found in some of the other text
converters on the market. It is also fairly intuitive to use,
displaying its entire set of menu choices at the bottom of the screen
(on line 25) as seen on the next line

(W)rite (G)o (C)olor/(S) (P)rint, Home-End-ArUp-ArDn-PgUp-PgDn, Ln =00

You may anytime by using the Escape key. The Line counter
at the far right of the menu bar, always indicates the position of the
very top line. Hence, if you hit and see 975, there are actually
998 lines (975 plus 23) in the file.

You can quickly and easily print the document to your line printer by
selecting (P)rint from the menu.

Prompt> Is LPT1 Printer READY [y/n] -> y

SHOW assumes you are using LPT1 (parallel port address 3BCh).
However, if you are using LPT2 (parallel port address 378h), or LPT3
(parallel port address 278h) this is no problem. SHOW will allow you
to toggle between these ports by repeatedly hitting the PrtSc key.
You will note the LPT# will appear to the extreme left of the last
(25th) line on standard displays.

You can also (W)rite the document back into a standard ascii text
file if desired. After hitting "w" you will be prompted for a standard
dos file name or handle.

Prompt> Enter filename to save as -> minutes.doc

Please observe not to exceed the dos convention of 8.3 8x3
(eight.three characters allowed for dos files. (Examp: TEXTFILE.DOC)

The display screen will have a pleasant default background color of
cyan with black lettering. The top border and bottom menu line will
be blue with white lettering. The (C)olor option allows you to change
(on the fly), the body color of the document. After hitting the
letter "c", immediately use the up and down arrow keys to toggle
through the 255 choices. As you toggle the up/dn arrow keys you will
see the screen change immediately. When you are satisfied with the
selected colors, hit and continue enjoying SHOW! There are 128
standard choices plus 128 of the same in blinking format.

Tech Stuff: The color atribute is determined by a single byte that can
represent an integer from 0 to 255. There are eight basic background
colors; black, blue, green, cyan, red, magenta (purple), brown and
white. Each background color may have any one of the eight basic
colors, plus eight more of the same basic colors in lighter or
brighter hues, as a forground color. So 8x16 = 128 choices of normal
color combinations plus another 8x16 (128) of equivalent blinking
choices. Therefore 128 + 128 = 256 choices (0 thru 255). The toggle
simply increments or decrements the byte starting with decimal 048
(the value for producing cyan background with black forground).

NOTICE: You may save the new color as a DEFAULT by hitting the "s"
key AFTER changing the color and hitting . Caution: the color
cloning (saving) feature will not operate if you rename the new COM
text display file.

The (G)o option request a line number to jump to. You can quickly
determine the total number of lines in your document by using the
key after loading and reading the Line counter at the bottom
right. This feature can save a lot of time in scaning or jumping to
a particular place in a document.