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READ.ME
ZVIEW.EXE
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The ZiffNet Viewer Utility
==========================
ADDITIONAL COMMANDS
===================
Two additional quick-key commands are now available: Alt-E (Expand All) and
Alt-A (Collapse All). These are shown on the Tree (Alt-T) pull-down menu and
in the ZVIEW.ZDG documentation file but are not mentioned in Quick Help (F1).
These two commands Expand All or Collapse All headings, respectively, in the
Table of Contents screen.
COLOR SELECTION AND *.INI FILES
===============================
ZVIEW will automatically detect the presence of a color or monochrome display
adapter and will default to a basic color scheme for both types of displays.
However, ZVIEW may get confused by laptop LCD screens or by other hybrid video
systems (eg. AT&T's 640x400 gray-scale display used on the PC6300 series), and
you may also wish to change ZVIEW's default color scheme.
ZVIEW uses a file called ZVIEW.INI to store color configuration information.
This file is created the first time you use the Options, Color menu choice and
hit Enter or click on [Ok] to exit from the color selection dialog box. If you
don't make any changes, the resulting ZVIEW.INI file will contain the default
settings. If you ESCape from the dialog box, the ZVIEW.INI will not be created
or re-written. ZVW.EXE includes several sample *.INI files.
LCDMONO.INI - sample configuration for gray-scale LCD screens
ATTMONO.INI - sample configuration for AT&T PC6300 monochrome screens
HGCMONO.INI - sample configuration for IBM MDA/Hercules displays
COLOR1.INI - sample configuration for color systems (default setting)
COLOR2.INI - sample configuration for color (alternative setting)
To try out one of these sample files, COPY (don't rename!) the file you want
to the configuration filename - ZVIEW.INI. Then load ZVIEW and check the
results.
You can modify the colors using the Options, Color pull-down menu and save the
results by pressing Enter to close the dialog box. Then exit and restart ZVIEW
to see the changes. Because ZVIEW always modifies the same file -- ZVIEW.INI,
copy this file to a new filename to save the configuration when you arrive at
a color combination you like.
If your system has a color adapter and a monochrome monitor and the default
display settings are unsatisfactory, you may want to tell ZVIEW that you are
using a monochrome display. You can do this by setting an environment variable
in DOS. The command syntax is:
SET PNLMONO=Y
Use all capital letters. Try this in conjunction with the HGCMONO.INI settings
for best results. You can test this on a color monitor, as well.
To return ZVIEW to auto-detection mode, just eliminate the DOS environment
variable. Type:
SET PNLMONO=
This will erase the variable from memory. You can add the SET command to your
AUTOEXEC.BAT file if you always want ZVIEW to use the monochrome mode.
You could use a batch file to start ZVIEW with your special configuration file
and/or set the PNLMONO environment variable. The batch file might look like
this (comments in parenthesis -- don't include them in the actual batch
file!):
@echo off (Don't display commands)
cd\zview (Change to the ZVIEW subdirectory on the current drive)
SET PNLMONO=Y (Set ZVIEW to use a monochrome display)
copy FOOBAR.INI ZVIEW.INI > NUL (Copy your FOOBAR.INI file to ZVIEW.INI and
don't display the "1 file(s) copied"
message.)
ZVIEW %1 (Load ZVIEW. Use the "%1" parameter to pass the name of a
*.ZDG file to ZVIEW from the command line. If you include
the name of a *.ZDG file on the command line after the
batch file command, ZVIEW will load that *.ZDG file
automatically. If the batch file is named "MYZVIEW.BAT",
the command "MYZVIEW 386NOT.ZDG" will load the 386NOT.ZDG
Buyers' Digest file directly into ZVIEW from the current
directory.)
SET PNLMONO= (Clear the PNLMONO environment variable from memory)
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