emigh@ecsvax.UUCP (Ted Emigh) (10/01/85)
SCAN Version 1.00
SCAN, based on the program BISHOW, is a program to view text and
squeezed text files. It can be used to take quick looks at files
without unsqueezing them or loading a large text editor, or to
examine another file with the RUN command while in Wordstar.
You can display the file in either direction, search for
strings, or view only selected columns of the file. In function, it
is identical to BISHOW Version 1.11 with two major additions the
search function, and the ability to bishow a squeezed file. The
program is written for Z80's only, and the addition of the unsqueezing
routines has ballooned the program to just under 4K. The various
commands for SCAN are:
1) Display the Next Page (Forward a Page)
2) Display the Previous Page (Back a Page)
3) Display the Next Line (Next Line)
4) Display the Previous Line (Back a Line)
5) Display the First Page (Top of File)
6) Display the Last Page (End of File)
7) Quit (End SCAN)
8) Set Screen Parameters
9) Search for a String of Characters
Searching includes wild card characters, forward and
backward search, and option to ignore upper/lower case.
10) Display Help
As distributed, SCAN contains a small patch file (SCANPAT.ASM).
This allow changing the various default parameters, as well as
the commands and terminal characteristics. Look at this file for
information about modifying SCAN. The distributed version of
SCAN is configured for the standard command names and a "plain
vanilla" CRT. This should work for most terminals.
If you are interested in the program, please E-mail me a message.
If there is enough interest, I will distribute it via net.sources,
otherwise I'll E-mail it back to you. The normal distribution package
includes SCAN.DOC, SCANPAT.ASM, AND SCAN.HEX. The sources is written
in Zilog mnemonics and is not being distributed at this time.
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Ted H. Emigh Genetics and Statistics, North Carolina State U, Raleigh NC
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I'm interested in your program, it looks like a fine extension to bishow...please let me know how I can get a copy of the program to post on a CPM BBS that I run here in Dallas. Russ
ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA (10/16/85)
Russ (et al), (Russ responded to Ted Emigh about SCAN, suggesting it might be a good extension to bishow.} I did a hack and put assembler routines for Unsqueezing squeezed text files into BISHOW. Works just fine, but .. since you're having to buffer text (to permit paging back and forth), it's aggravating to wait not only while your system reads in from disk a new buffer full, but then the Unsqueezing too. Since I used two different buffer sizes (one for reads, one for the unsqueezed text), it got a little strange. Worked .. but as I said, aggravating. If you wanna see how I did it, yell, and I'll (painstakingly) upload the source code where you can FTP it. Regards, David Kirschbaum Toad Hall ABN.ISCAMS@USC-ISID.ARPA
Stiles.es@XEROX.ARPA (10/16/85)
Hi Russ, This is not specifically in reply to your message above, but prompted by it and today's reply by David Kirschbaum. When I visited you this summer you mentioned that you had a friend up at PARC who has an account on the VAX that can get to SIMTEL20. I have such an account also but haven't been able to get it to work. Could you give me his name and net address? I'd like to contact him and have him forward to me the Chat typescript from such a session so I can see what I am doing wrong. Then possibly I can 'share the load' in getting new programs for [ISIS]<CPM> and your RCPM (as my time allows!). Bill~