.IMG Squeezer Copyright 1991 W. D. Parks & Chet Walters ShareWare offering from Woodstein Productions! If ya like it, send $10 to: Chet Walters PO Box 45 Girard, OH 44420 (Don't worry, the Doc will get his half) Dr. Bob and I have been working overtime on squeezing the mostest out of our .IMG save routines. This little ditty is a helper for those who don't have programs that save .IMG files as efficiently as they can (which is about most of them out there, but we won't name names). The first alert that comes up asks which kind of files you wish to work with. .WWW files are those special files created by Chet's BigScreen HP Laser Print or Save ALT/HELP vector stealer and if you have that program you know what to do. If you don't, you should. Send $15 to Chet at the address above and get the best little screen dumper and saver ever was for HP Deskjets and LaserJets. It will let you save or print big screens, TT screens, ST screens in all resolutions on the HP laser hickey's in landscape (mono) and in three sizes too! Ask for it with a check! It won't get to ya any other way. But enough, this Squeezer was released separately for those who just want to save some disk space (and to advertise the Big Screen HP Dumper Saver TT compatible ALT/HELP hickey, but that's another story). Choose .IMG from the alert to squeeze .IMG files. The next alert asks if ya wanna delete those irritating little "sister" .GEM files that certain programs create every time you save an .IMG file. If you want those tossed from the source path automatically, then go right ahead. Elsewise say no. Now what you need to do is find a folder full of .IMG files and just tell the Squeezer where they are with the file selector. Then, just tell it where you want them re-saved after they're squeezed as little as they can be. No sweat! Don't worry! After they're squeezed, they'll load just fine into all the programs they loaded into before they'll just take up a bunch of less space on your disk drives! Now, some things to note: If you have chosen the SAME path for both the source and destination, then the originals will be squeezed and replaced (No sweat! Don't worry!) and if we can't squeeze any more out of the .IMG than is already squeezed out already, we'll just skip it. Too, if it's a color .IMG or one we don't recognize, it'll get skipped too. If you have chosen DIFFERENT paths for the source and destination, then if we can't squeeze any more out of the file or it ain't right, we'll just copy it over to the destination path as it is. Or is that as it was? Or was it as it is? Or is it as it was? Whatever.....we won't hurt it, just copy it. No sweat! Don't worry! But, no matter if the destination and source are the same or different, if you have elected to delete the .GEM files from the source path, they go byebye no matter what! We do some checking to make sure it's one of those "touchy" sister .GEM files by looking at the size. If the name matches the .IMG and the file size is less than 160 bytes, she goes byebye big time. Elsewise we leave her be. But, we don't copy her over if the paths are different. We just leave her be. Nice girl... Now, the TIME/DATE stamp is preserved on copies and rewrites. Thanks for the notice! That's it! Easy as cake! Piece of pie! Enjoy! And don't forget to send us a ShareWare fee for our trouble. Ten bucks won't hurt! A fiver for Chet and a fiver for the Doc. You know the address! Thanks ahead of time! We'll buy some fries at Mickey D's in your honor! ********** HP Desk/Laser ALT/HELP screen dumper advert *********** Ok, now that that silly person has yielded the keyboard I want to ask you. Do you have an HP laser compatible printer? That includes HP LaserJets, HP DeskJets, Panasonic KX-P types, and many others. How would you like to dump a screen to that printer anytime anywhere inside any program just by pressing the ALT/HELP key? Really? Nice convenience. But, you can dump it in three sizes two of which are selectable with the CONTROL key anytime anywhere. How would you like to dump the screen in large size landscape on the paper? Really? Me too. Maybe have it form feed each time? Maybe have it form feed only when you hold the ALT key down for two seconds after putting two or three screens on one page? Maybe you'd like to have the printer dump remaining data anytime anywhere and spit out the page with a press of the ALT/SHIFT/HELP key? But, that isn't all. It will dump nicely dithered and legible ST Low res screens! AND! I will dump nicely dithered and legible TT Medium screens too! It will automatically set the size when you change resolutions on the TT for ST resolution and TT resolutions so you don't have to worry that it won't fit the page. AND! If you're on of those lucky ones who have a big screen monitor on your ST or TT or you have a custom color board installed, you can dump that too! In a big size landscape (mono only) so it fits the page if you want to! We still aren't done. It will also allow you to save any size screen to disk anytime anywhere inside any program up to 26 screens consecutively. Now where have you ever had an opportunity to do that with a TT or Big Screen monitor! All this for only a $15.00 ShareWare fee. Send the ShareWare fee to: Chet Walters PO Box 45 Girard, OH 44420 You'll get a disk in return with TT Print Or Save on it and some demos too!