Copyright (c) 1986 William T Morrison IV You may copy and distribute this program freely, provided that: 1) No fee is charged for such copying and distribution 2) It is distributed ONLY in its original, unmodified state. Address all correspondence to : Bill Morrison IV 34762 Oak Ave Inglside, IL 60041 Or leave a message on The Picture Bulletin Board - 301 588-9079 Acknowledgments MTI (Phoenix Bulletin Board - 618 233-2315) - for getting me addicted to MacPaint pictures in the first place. Bruce Guthrie (SYSOP) at The Picture Bulletin Board - for convincing me someone else might be interested in these programs. Richard Byrne - for showing me that the HP Laser Jet does print nicely, and showing me the error of my ways. READ - Reads MacPaint format pictures, and displays them on a PC. The program selects the highest resolution, from an EGA, Color or Hercules Card. WARNING, the program assumes that if you have a monochrome card that it is a Hercules Card. The program gives no indication of monitor type. This is fatal on a IBM Monochrome card, and you have to reboot to recover. MacPaint pictures should have the extension of .MAC, or so is the convention. When the program asks for a file name if no extension is specified, a default of .MAC is added. If a period exists on the line the default is not used. ENTRY FORMAT: READ [/T] [filename] /T - Timer: This causes the picture to be displayed for T seconds, then exit. This parameter, if present, must occur before the filename. filename - Initial picture to be displayed. Command available once a picture is loaded. Movement of the picture: UP DOWN Moves the picture 1 row at a time. PAGE UP PAGE DOWN Moves the picture 10 rows at a time. CRTL PAGE UP CTRL PAGE DOWN Moves the picture one half frame at a time. HOME END Moves the picture to the Top / Bottom. Other Keys: E or ESC Exit the program. L Load a new picture. P Print the current picture. S Set up the 'other printer' on the printer menu. This will also save the current color settings as default color setting. For Color (CGA, EGA) users: F1 - F2 Increment / Decrement foreground color. F3 - F4 Increment / Decrement background color. MACPRT - Prints MacPaint format pictures, without displaying them on a PC. ENTRY FORMAT: PRINTMAC [/T] filename /T - Print the filename (without extention and path) on the top line of the page. filename - Pictures to be printed. May contain wild cards. PRINTER FORMAT - Both READ and MACPRT have the same internal printer table. This table is near the end of the program. This is the format of the table should modifying the table seem necessary. The file OTHER.PRT is one table entry written to disk, 49 bytes long. This is the printer table format: 'PRINTER TABLE***' ;header 1 byte ;Type of printer: 1 laser 8 dot matrix (8 pin) ;Set up - 8/72 linefeed 1 byte ;Length of this print string 15 bytes ;Print string to send, zero filled ;Print Graphics characters (1) 1 byte ;Length of this print string 15 bytes ;Print string to send, zero filled ;Reset printer to normal 1 byte ;Length of this print string 15 bytes ;Print string to send, zero filled (1) The count of bytes sent to the printer to make up one row is 576 for a dot matrix (type 8) printer, and 72 for a laser printer (type 1).