doc@s.cc.purdue.edu (Craig Norborg) (06/18/87)
This is a repost of the shortest IFF veiwer to be found. It looks
like it was dropped when we changed our newsfeeds.
Enjoy!
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# ReadMe
# ushow.uu
# This archive created: Thu Jun 11 01:21:37 1987
# By: Craig Norborg (Purdue University Computing Center)
cat << \SHAR_EOF > ReadMe
You asked for it, you got it. The only non-defective IFF viewer I have ever
seen. (The others all hog the processor while displaying the pictures)
It's a bit short on error messages (not even passing them for the dos WHY
command), but it's also a short program; 996 bytes.
-Bryce
uShow (microShow) version 1.0 - Copyright (c) 1987 Darrin Massena
Usage: uShow [file name]
To close picture, press any key. If you don't want any key to exit, then
click on the invisible drag bar. To exit press the invisible close gadget.
While working on the latest, greatest Mantis Development creation, I came upon
the need for extremely short IFF picture read routines. It occurred to me
that we can always use a shorter "Show" utility, so I whipped together -
"uShow (or microShow) the less-than 1K IFF show utility"
uShow is about half the size of this document file. Yes, it's true!
uShow has been tested to work with IFF pictures from DPaint, DPaint II, Aegis
Images, DigiView, and Amiga Live. DPaint I/II brushes are also displayed.
A few limitations were imposed on uShow to keep it smallest:
1) uShow handles all error conditions but does not report the errors back to
you. If uShow cannot find your file or cannot allocate screen memory,
it will simply return to you without displaying the picture.
2) uShow cannot show pictures larger than your screen size (about 704x420).
3) uShow does not need quotes (") around filenames with spaces in them. To
display the file "Spaces In Name.pic", just type "uShow Spaces In Name.pic".
For a copy (on Amiga 3.5" disk) of the assembly language source to uShow,
along with a set of more general purpose (but equally short) assembly language
IFF ILBM read routines in Manx Assembler format, just send a meager $15 to:
Mantis Development
attn: Darrin Massena
P.O. Box 4001
Bellevue, WA 98008
uShow is NOT public domain, but is freely redistributable by anyone so long
as no profit is made through the redistribution. Give uShow to all your
friends, include it in all software collections, just don't do anything stupid
like trying to sell it. Who'd pay for this anyway?
Darrin Massena, Mantis Development
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