BLOODVIEW SPECIAL BLACK MAIDEN EDITION (bugfixed) CODE BY JEY^BLOOD - ANSI GFX BY TRICYCLE^BLOOD - - - - --- -- - What s BloodView - - - - --- -- - With bloodview you can softscroll thru ANSI textfiles However you can use it to view any kind of textfile but don t forget that BloodView was made for viewing ANSI-files with more than 25 lines so don t get jerky if bv doesn t load your non-ANSI-textfiles correctly! BloodView should display the files exactly as the TYPE DOS command does (with ANSI SYS installed) except that BloodView has some more features - - - - --- -- - Black Maiden edition - - - - --- -- - This is a special version for Black Maiden which includes some new features It is a part of the Black Maiden Art Pack Of course you may use it for every ANSI you want but please don t spread this edition seperately - - - - --- -- - Bugfixed - - - - --- -- - The last Bloodview BM edition was full of bugs This is because it was done in a quick n dirty way I had not much time to include all functions and I had virtually no time to test them This bugfixed version has been running o k for some time and there shouldn t be too many bugs left in it However I had to remove some functions which were not working yet And I am currently bothering with the 3 0 Version which is completely different from the former versions and which will be released well as soon as it s ready sooner or later Hope it works o k this time! - - - - --- -- - how to run Bloodview - - - - --- -- - There s not much to say about that! You can either run BV without any parameters or you can specify the filename of the file you wanna view as a commandline parameter - - - - --- -- - features n extras - - - - --- -- - Here s a short overview of all the switches you can turn on or off EGA MODE - EGA MODE is a video mode where every text character is 8 pixels wide Most ANSIs look much cooler with EGA MODE turned on ICECOLOR MODE - if enabled the blinking is disabled and you have 16 background colors instead (used in some ANSIs) SAUCE - SAUCE stands for Standard Architecture For Universal Comment Extensions It s an extension to every file which contains the title author group and some extra information about the file SAUCE was developed by ACID and is e g supported by AcidDraw If turned on BloodView reads the SAUCE information and displays the name author and group of each file while displaying the file Also if ANSI or PCBOARD mode is turned off but the SAUCE-info indicates that a file does use PCB or ANSI codes or that it contains binary data it automatically switches to the correct mode ANSI CODES - toggles ANSI code support on off PCBOARD MACROS - toggles PCBOARD macro support on off I did not implement all PCBOARD macros So please don t whine when you find out that e g @LASTCALLERNODE@ is not supported I didn t want to waste memory for all possible PCBOARD macros READ BINARY - if set to YES all files with a BIN extension will be loaded as binary files if set to ALWAYS all files will be treated as binary files no matter of what extension if set to NO no files will be treated as binary EOF CHECKING - if enabled BloodView immediately stops reading and truncates a file when reading an EOF (=end of file) character (1Ah) OPEN ARCHIVES - if set to YES you can OPEN and look into packed archives (ARJ ZIP LZH RAR) If you select one of the packed files BloodView automatically unpacks the corresponding archive by running the external unpacker utility If set to ALWAYS BloodView automatically opens all archives in the current directory ASK WIDTH specifies when to ask the user for the screen width if set to BIN BV will only ask for the width if you are opening a BIN file If set to always BV will ask when opening any file If set to NO BV will assume 80 columns for every file NOTE Some settings will be ignored if a file has a SAUCE-Info In this case the settings will be taken from the SAUCE Info - no matter if they re correct or not I noticed that sometimes the SAUCE contains bad information The only way to view these files correctly is to turn SAUCE Mode off or to fix the bad information What sense does it make to have such a great thing like a SAUCE-info if you can t rely on it ! - - - - --- -- - QuickSearch - - - - --- -- - To quickly locate a file in the fileselector type the first letters of the file you are looking for There s nothing more to say about this it should be quite easy to figure out - - - - --- -- - how to configure BloodView - - - - --- -- - BV INI is a textfile to configure BloodView and set the default values for some functions Each line in this file must look like this switch = value any comments must start with a character! switch values description EGAMODE YES NO default value for the EGA MODE ICECOLOR YES NO default value for ICECOLOR MODE SAUCE YES NO default value for SAUCE SUPPORT ANSI YES NO default value for ANSI code support PCB YES NO default value for PCB macro support BINARY YES NO ALWAYS default value for binary files CHECKEOF YES NO default value for EOF checking OPENARCHIVES YES NO ALWAYS default value for OPEN ARCHIVES ELITEFONT YES NO turns the LiT Fo T on or off by default SPEED LAME SLOW sets the default scrolling speed NORMAL FAST WARP USER Text sets the username (used by some PCBOARD macros SWAPDIRINFO YES NO swaps the current directory list to disk while viewing the ANSI This takes only little disk space but improves the speed Turning this off is extremely lame so don t do it ) ASKWIDTH BIN ALL NO sets the default for ASK WIDTH (see features n extras ) STARTUPPATH Text sets the startup path i e the directory to show first when BV has been loaded SORTFILES YES NO if turned off the filelist will remain unsorted There is a little Bug if you open an archive in an unsorted list the contents will be appended at the very end of the list Sorry but I did this in a hurry and had no time to fix this - - - - --- -- - Creditz - - - - --- -- - Thanks to Tricycle Buster and Raven for docs and inspirations Thanks to Tiger^Vdo for reporting the palette bug that occured on some VGA adaptors Thanks to all beta-testers and other people (especially to all ANSI GER-guys) for bug-reports and for inspirations and suggestions about future versions of BV Special thanx to Tricycle for the KEWL ANSIs ! bug reports & any suggestions for future versions welcome! Coming soon BV 3 0 - lots of more features completly new designed and hopefully quite bugfree JEY (29 Mar 1996) e-mail h rust@trilos han de fido 2 2437 901 18