ts@uwasa.fi (Timo Salmi) (06/11/91)
>From: Shaun Case <shaunc%gold.gvg.tek.com@RELAY.CS.NET> >Subject: Re: Shareware is junk >To: Timo Salmi <ts%uwasa.fi@RELAY.CS.NET> >Date: Thu, 06 Jun 91 12:04:25 PDT > > >Hello Timo. A while ago I wrote to you about a program I wrote called >QFIX that saves and restores the screen to disk. You mentioned that >you have a similar program. My small improvement was working in screen >modes up to 132 x 60. You said you would like me to submit it. > >I have played with it some more, and made a few changes. It used to work >only on my video card (Video 7 Super VGA) and CGA/EGA/VGA cards. Now, >if it can't get a standard mode (like 80*25, 40*25, etc) it just saves a >block of 132*60. This is a very inelegant approach, but has worked on >all systems I have tried it on (about 4.) > >It also restores the cursor position, even outside the normal 80*25 screen, >by a custom put cursor routine I wrote. gotoxy() would not place the cursor >outside 80*25. > >Future versions will support MDA, and will save the screen to EMS instead >of a file, if it is available. > >I have no access to FTP, so here is the program in uuencoded zip form. >Borland C 2.0 source is included, and the whole package is in the >public domain. > >I also have a Huffman encoder/decoder and 2 versions of an RLE encodeder/ >decoder that I have written and put in the public domain, if you would >like them for the uwasa archives. > >Shaun. Thank you Shaun, Your program is now available as /pc/editor/qfix101.zip. Even if the utility is obviously a general purpose screen restore program, I put it is /pc/editor directory after some though, because the documentation is so obviously geared to the QEDIT editor. ................................................................... Prof. Timo Salmi Moderating at garbo.uwasa.fi anonymous ftp archives 128.214.12.37 School of Business Studies, University of Vaasa, SF-65101, Finland Internet: ts@chyde.uwasa.fi Funet: gado::salmi Bitnet: salmi@finfun