[comp.sys.atari.st] ICCA, a question

boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu (Mickey Boyd) (03/17/91)

In article <1991Mar16.205932.20073@watmath.waterloo.edu>, ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:
>I recently came across ICCA, and was delighted with the idea.
>But I tried it, and found some problems.  Do you know a solution?
>
>I was running "gulam" and decided that I would like to capture some
>output.  I wanted to save everything that came to the screen, and
>my mind turned to the newly released ICCA, which claims "I Can
>Capture Anything".
>

Um, what is ICCA.  It sounds neat, could you post a brief description?

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ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) (03/19/91)

In article <1991Mar16.165048.16772@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu writes:
>In article <1991Mar16.205932.20073@watmath.waterloo.edu>, ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey) writes:
>>I recently came across ICCA, and was delighted with the idea.
>>But I tried it, and found some problems.  Do you know a solution?
>>
>>I was running "gulam" and decided that I would like to capture some
>>output.  I wanted to save everything that came to the screen, and
>>my mind turned to the newly released ICCA, which claims "I Can
>>Capture Anything".
>>
>
>Um, what is ICCA.  It sounds neat, could you post a brief description?

Well, I guess it is something of the form TSR (Terminate, Stay Resident).
I think that it watches for a certain key combination: ( ALT+CTRL+I )

 Here is the "net" and the "readme":

There is no author mentioned. I know no address to write to.




>From uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!philapd!ssp18!jvl Sat Feb 23 22:58:06 EST 1991
Article: 35494 of comp.sys.atari.st:
>From: jvl@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (J. van Loenen)
Subject: Re: printer data capturing
Date: 6 Feb 91 11:49:49 GMT
Organization: Philips Information Systems, Apeldoorn, The Netherlands


Several questions have been posted last week about capturing printer data:

>Does anyone know if a program that can redirect the print-data in a file
>exist ? If yes, any ftp site?

]Get BARREL.ARC from any archive site (I highly recommend our site at

:I, too, am interested in this.  I remember hearing about a program called
:barrel (or something like that) that was just the ticket.  I looked over the

Months ago I have asked the same question and received many responses.
All of them telling me to get BARREL.  I got barrel but couldn't use it,
because barrel captures all the data in memory.  So with barrel I could
not "print" graphical on my 1M ST.

Some weeks ago I recieved ICCA.  A little program (~3k) able to capture
screen/rs232 or printerdata straight to disk.  It works well on my harddisk.
I do not know if printing to a floppy will result in continious switching
floppies.

As icca uses a second screen for the userinterface, allocated when starting
to capture to a (new) file, you may have problems to start it within
programs that allocate all the available memory. If so, start icca before.

I do not know the author of the program. I got it from a dutch bbs:
"Dutchman". The archive contains a program and a little documentation.
Because it is very small, and a lot of users seem to need it, here it is:

Enjoy,
	Jan

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I found this program on "Dutchman", a Dutch BBS. The archive contained
a 'readme' file, how to use ICCA. Here follows the translation:

ICCA - I Can Capture Anything.

Icca is a program to redirect output streams to files. The usage is
as follows:
1. Start ICCA.PRG. The program will return to the desktop immediately.
2. If you want to redirect output, press <Control>+<Alternate>+I
   simulatiously.
3. Choose the outputdevice to capture.
4. Type the name of the file. It may contain a path.
5. To stop capturing, press <Control>+<Alternate>+I again. This time
   the file is closed.

You can start capturing to another file now starting with 2 again.


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