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This library contains five files:
(1) README.DOC --- what you are reading now.
(2) PIBPICT.PQS --- a sample Turbo Pascal program to demonstrate
the editing facilities of routine
Picture_Format. (SQUEEZED)
(3) PICTFORM.PQS --- the code for Picture_Format. (SQUEEZED)
(4) PIBPICT.DQT --- a data file used by PIBPICT.PAS, containing
many examples of the use of Picture_Format.
(SQUEEZED)
(5) PIBPICT.LQS --- the output resulting from running
PIBPICT.PAS. (SQUEEZED)
The squeezed files were created using a squeezer that does NOT
insert the date and time of creation, so almost any unsqueezer
should work on them. NOTE: A squeezed file is one that has
been bitwise compressed to save space. To use such a file,
you must have an unsqueezer program. Most BBSs have at least
one such program, usually called USQ or NUSQ or something
similar. To decompress files (2) through (5) above, using a
program called (for example) USQ, you would enter the following
DOS commands:
USQ PIBPICT.PQS
USQ PICTFORM.PQS
USQ PIBPICT.DQT
USQ PIBPICT.LQS
As a result, you should get the files PIBPICT.PAS, PICTFORM.PAS,
PIBPICT.DAT, and PIBPICT.LIS.
The routine Picture_Format contained in file PICTFORM.PAS provides a
very general commercial picture format editing facility for Turbo
Pascal. If you have used PL/1, Cobol, or some dialects of Basic,
then you know what picture format is all about. If you haven't
encountered picture formats before, then, very briefly, a picture
format is a string of characters describing exactly how the digits of a
number should be layed out for printing purposes. This picture
format contains characters indicating where digits are to be placed,
if a sign is to included, if commas are to be used, if a dollar
sign should appear in front of the number, etc.
A complete description of the picture format control characters
appears in the header to the Picture_Format routine itself.
Please report bugs, enhancements, etc. to me on one of the
following two Chicago area BBSs:
Gene Plantz's IBBS (312) 882 4227
Ron Fox's RBBS (312) 940 6496
Thanks,
Philip R. Burns
February, 1985