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┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0 ╨AGE 1
┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0
╫ELCOME TO ┴UTO╟RAPH, ONE OF THE MOST VERSATILE GRAPHICS
CONVERT/DISPLAY PROGRAMS TO COME ALONG! ╘HIS PROGRAM ALLOWS YOU
TO VIEW AND MANAGE FILES CREATED FROM MANY DIFFERENT TYPES OF
ART PROGRAMS, AND ALSO ALLOWS YOU TO CONVERT BETWEEN ANY OF THE
FORMATS SUPPORTED. ╘HE PROGRAM HAS BEEN DESIGNED TO BE SIMPLE
AND EASY TO USE, AND HOPEFULLY, IT IS.
╫HEN YOU START THE PROGRAM, YOU'LL BE ASKED TO INSERT A
DISK CONTAINING GRAPHICS FILES. ╘HE ╞1/╞2 KEYS LET YOU CHANGE
THE DEVICE NUMBER THAT ┴UTO╟RAPH WILL SEARCH FOR FILES, AND THE
╞3/╞4 KEYS WILL LET YOU CHANGE THE DRIVE NUMBER. ╞OR 1541/71/81
DISK DRIVES, THE DRIVE NUMBER HAS NO MEANING, AND ═╒╙╘ BE LEFT
AT 0. ─UAL DRIVES SUCH AS THE 4040 OR 8050, OR HARD DRIVES LIKE
THE ╠T. ╦ERNAL WILL BE ABLE USE THE DRIVE NUMBER TO SELECT DISKS
OR PARTITIONS. 1581 USERS WILL USE A DIFFERENT METHOD TO SELECT
PARTITIONS, AND SHOULD SIMPLY INSERT THE DISK AND PRESS ╥┼╘╒╥╬.
┴UTO╟RAPH WILL THEN READ THE DIRECTORY AND LOOK FOR GRAPHIC
FILES THAT ARE IN A FORMAT IT RECOGNIZES. ╬OT ALL GRAPHIC
FORMATS ARE SUPPORTED, BUT MOST OF THE MAJOR COMMERCIAL ART
PROGRAM FORMATS ARE SUPPORTED. ╔F ┴UTO╟RAPH CAN'T FIND ANY
FILES THAT IT RECOGNIZES ON THE DISK, IT WILL ASK FOR ANOTHER
DISK BEFORE ALLOWING YOU TO PROCEED.
╧NCE ┴UTO╟RAPH READS A DIRECTORY CONTAINING GRAPHIC FILES,
IT WILL DISPLAY THE MAIN SCREEN. ═OST OF THE SCREEN CONTAINS A
WINDOW SHOWING WHAT FILES ARE ON THE DISK. ┴UTO╟RAPH DISPLAYS
THE NAME OF EACH FILE, WITHOUT THE PREFIX OR SUFFIX ASSOCIATED
WITH THAT FILE TYPE, AND PLACES A TWO-LETTER CODE AFTER EACH
FILE, WHICH SHOWS ITS TYPE. ╘HE TYPES RECOGNIZED BY ┴UTO╟RAPH
AND THE TWO-LETTER CODES SHOWN FOR EACH TYPE ARE EXPLAINED
BELOW:
╦╧ ╦OALA ╨AINT ╥┬ ╥╒╬ ╨AINT ┬ITMAP
── ─OODLE! ╥═ ╥╒╬ ╨AINT ═ED-╥ES
╟╟ ├OMPRESSED ╦OALA ╥╚ ╥╒╬ ╨AINT ╚I-╥ES
╩╩ ├OMPRESSED ─OODLE ┬╨ ┬LAZING ╨ADDLES
╧├ ╧├╨ ┴RT ╙TUDIO ╙┬ ╙╔─/╨╔├ ┬ITMAP
┴─ ┴DVANCED ╧├╨ ┴RT ╙═ ╙╔─/╨╔├ ═ULTICOLOR
64 ┴RTIST 64 ╙╚ ╙╔─/╨╔├ ╚I-╥ES
┘OU WILL SEE A "CURSOR" ON ONE OF THE FILENAMES, WHICH YOU
CAN MOVE AROUND WITH THE ├╥╙╥ KEYS. ╘HE CURSOR SHOWS WHICH FILE
WILL BE ACTED UPON BY A COMMAND THAT YOU GIVE. ╘HE ╚╧═┼ AND ├╠╥
(╙HIFT ╚╧═┼) KEYS MOVE THE CURSOR TO THE FIRST OR LAST FILE ON
THE SCREEN, RESPECTIVELY. ╨RESSING ╚╧═┼ OR ├╠╥ TWICE WILL TAKE
YOU TO THE BEGINNING OR THE END OF THE DIRECTORY.
┴LL OF THE COMMANDS THAT YOU WILL USE CAN WORK ON ONE FILE
┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0 ╨AGE 2
OR SEVERAL FILES AT A TIME. ╘O SPECIFY A SINGLE FILE, SIMPLY
MOVE THE CURSOR TO THAT FILE AND GIVE THE COMMAND. ╘O SPECIFY
SEVERAL FILES TO BE OPERATED ON IN A BATCH, USE FILE SELECTION.
╘HE ╙╨┴├┼ BAR IS USED TO SELECT THE FILE UNDER THE CURSOR.
╫HEN A FILE IS SELECTED, IT APPEARS IN REVERSE VIDEO ON THE
SCREEN. ┘OU CAN MOVE THE CURSOR AROUND, SELECTING AS MANY FILES
AS YOU LIKE, AND WHEN YOU GIVE A COMMAND, ALL FILES THAT ARE
SELECTED WILL BE OPERATED ON BY THE COMMAND. ╘HOSE OF YOU
FAMILIAR WITH ╞AST ╚ACK'EM AND OTHER COPY PROGRAMS WILL
RECOGNIZED THIS APPROACH TO FILE PROCESSING.
┴ QUICK METHOD OF SELECTING FILES IS TO USE THE TOGGLE
COMMAND, "╘", WHICH REVERSES THE SELECTION STATUS OF ALL
FILENAMES. ╨RESSING "╘" WITH NO FILES SELECTED CAUSES ALL FILES
TO BE SELECTED. ┴LSO, THE UNSELECT COMMAND, "╒", QUICKLY
UNSELECTS ALL SELECTED FILES, SO THAT YOU CAN SELECT A DIFFERENT
BATCH TO PROCESS.
╧NCE YOU KNOW WHAT FILES YOU WANT TO USE IN A COMMAND,
SIMPLY PRESS THE KEY THAT PERFORMS THAT COMMAND, AND THE COMMAND
WILL START EXECUTING. ╬OTE THAT IN ALMOST EVERY CASE, YOU CAN
PRESS THE ╙╘╧╨ KEY TO CANCEL A COMMAND AND RETURN TO THE MAIN
SCREEN, SO IF YOU MAKE A MISTAKE, JUST PRESS ╙╘╧╨. ╨RESSING
╙╘╧╨ AT THE MAIN SCREEN WILL EXIT THE PROGRAM AND PUT YOU BACK
AT THE ┬ASIC ╥┼┴─┘ PROMPT.
├OMMAND ╙UMMARY
╨RESSING THE ╥┼╘╒╥╬ KEY STARTS THE ╓IEW COMMAND, WHICH
DISPLAYS FILES ON THE SCREEN. ┘OU CAN VIEW ONE FILE OR SELECT
MANY FILES AND VIEW THEM ONE AFTER THE OTHER. ╫HILE YOU ARE
VIEWING A FILE, YOU HAVE SEVERAL OPTIONS THAT YOU CAN PERFORM,
THAT ARE NOT SHOWN ON THE SCREEN. ╨RESSING THE ╞1 AND ╞3 KEYS
CHANGES THE BORDER COLOR OF THE PICTURE. ╔F YOU PRESS "╔" WHILE
VIEWING A PICTURE, THE BITMAP WILL BE INVERTED. ╘HIS FUNCTION
HAS BEEN FOUND TO BE HELPFUL WHEN VIEWING FILES CREATED BY
SCANNERS OR DIGITIZERS. ┴NY OTHER KEY (EXCEPT "╙") STOPS
VIEWING THE FILE. ╔F THERE ARE MORE FILES TO BE VIEWED, THE
NEXT ONE WILL BE LOADED AND DISPLAYED. ┘OU CAN PRESS ╙╘╧╨ TO
CANCEL A MULTI-FILE ╓IEW.
╨RESSING "╙" WHILE VIEWING A PICTURE STARTS A ╙AVE
OPERATION. ╘HE PICTURE ON THE SCREEN CAN BE SAVED TO DISK,
EITHER IN THE SAME FORMAT OR IN ANY OTHER FORMAT OF THE SAME
DISPLAY TYPE (MULTICOLOR OR HI-RES). ┴ MENU WILL APPEAR SHOWING
WHICH TYPES YOU CAN CONVERT TO. ╔F YOU SELECT ONE AND PRESS
╥┼╘╒╥╬, THE FILE WILL BE SAVED IN THE FORMAT YOU SELECTED.
─ETAILS ON SOURCE AND DESTINATION DRIVES WILL BE EXPLAINED
LATER.
┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0 ╨AGE 3
╔F YOU PRESS THE "╙" KEY FROM THE MAIN COMMAND SCREEN, YOU
WILL START A ╙LIDESHOW, WHICH IS A WAY OF DISPLAYING PICTURES,
ONE AFTER THE OTHER, WITH A TIMED DELAY IN BETWEEN. ╒NLIKE THE
╓IEW COMMAND, WHICH ALWAYS RETURNS TO THE MAIN SCREEN WHEN
LOADING THE NEXT FILE, THE ╙LIDESHOW COMMAND LOADS THE NEXT
PICTURE IN THE SEQUENCE WHILE IT IS STILL DISPLAYING THE
PREVIOUS PICTURE. ╧NLY WHEN THE PICTURE FINISHES LOADING, AND
THEN ONLY AFTER THE INTER-PICTURE DELAY TIME RUNS OUT, THEN THE
NEXT PICTURE IS DISPLAYED.
╫HEN YOU START A SLIDESHOW, YOU ARE ASKED FIRST FOR A TIME
DELAY BETWEEN PICTURES. ┘OU CAN ENTER ANY VALUE FROM 1 TO 255
SECONDS, ALTHOUGH IT USUALLY TAKES LONGER THAN 1 SECOND TO LOAD
A PICTURE. ╘HIS TIME DELAY IS MEASURED FROM THE START OF
DISPLAYING ONE PICTURE TO THE START OF THE NEXT PICTURE,
INCLUDING LOAD TIME. ╞OR INSTANCE, IF YOU SELECT A 30 SECOND
DELAY, AND THE LOADING OF THE NEXT PICTURE TAKES 10 SECONDS, THE
PROGRAM WILL WAIT 20 MORE SECONDS BEFORE DISPLAYING THE PICTURE
THAT WAS LOADED.
┘OU ARE ALSO ASKED IF YOU WISH TO PERFORM A CONTINUOUS
SLIDESHOW. ╘HIS MEANS THAT AFTER DISPLAYING THE LAST PICTURE IN
A SEQUENCE, THE FIRST WILL BE RE-DISPLAYED, AND SO ON. ┘OU MUST
USE ╙╘╧╨ TO EXIT A CONTINUOUS SLIDESHOW.
╬OTE THAT ONLY THE FILES YOU SELECT WILL BE INCLUDED IN A
SLIDESHOW. ╔F YOU SELECT NO FILES, THEN THIS COMMAND WORKS
EXACTLY LIKE ╓IEW.
╘HERE MAY BE SOME CASES IN WHICH YOU WISH TO PAUSE A
SLIDESHOW FOR A MOMENT, THEN LET IT RESUME. ╔F YOU PRESS DOWN
THE ╙╚╔╞╘ ╠╧├╦ KEY DURING A SLIDESHOW, THE NEXT PICTURE WILL NOT
BE DISPLAYED UNTIL YOU RELEASE THE ╙╚╔╞╘ ╠╧├╦ KEY.
╘HE "─┼╠" KEY ALLOWS YOU TO DELETE ONE OR MORE GRAPHIC
FILES FROM THE DISK. ┘OU ARE ALWAYS ASKED FOR CONFIRMATION
BEFORE ANY FILES ARE DELETED. ╔F YOU ARE DELETING MULTIPLE
FILES, THE ╙╘╧╨ KEY CAN BE USED TO ABORT THE OPERATION.
╘HE "╥" KEY ALLOWS YOU TO RENAME GRAPHIC FILES, WITH FULL
EDITING. ╘HE OLD FILENAME AND NEW FILENAME ARE DISPLAYED, AND
YOU CAN EDIT THE NEW FILENAME TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT, USING THE
├╥╙╥ LEFT/RIGHT, ╚╧═┼, ├╠╥, AND ╔╬╙╘/─┼╠ KEYS. ╫HEN YOU HAVE
EDITED THE NAME, PRESS ╥┼╘╒╥╬ TO RENAME THE FILE, OR ╙╘╧╨ IF YOU
DO NOT WISH TO RENAME IT. ═ULTIPLE FILES CAN BE SELECTED AND
RENAMED. ╬OTE THAT IF THE FILENAME YOU SPECIFY IS ILLEGAL, THE
RENAME WILL NOT BE PERFORMED.
┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0 ╨AGE 4
╨RESSING "├" FROM THE MAIN COMMAND SCREEN ALLOWS YOU TO
CONVERT FILES FROM ONE TYPE TO ANOTHER, WITHOUT HAVING TO USE
THE ╓IEW/╙AVE OPTION DESCRIBED EARLIER. ╬OTE, HOWEVER, THAT IF
YOU HAVE ONLY ONE DRIVE, YOU CAN ONLY USE THIS COMMAND IF YOU
SAVE TO THE SAME DISK AS YOU ARE LOADING FILES FROM. ═AKE SURE
THERE IS PLENTY OF SPACE ON THE DISK.
┴ MENU WILL APPEAR SHOWING YOU WHICH TYPES YOU CAN CONVERT
THE HI-RES AND MULTICOLOR FILES THAT YOU HAVE SELECTED ON THE
DISK. ╬OTE THAT ON BOTH MENUS, AN OPTION CALLED "╬O ├ONVERSION"
APPEARS. ╔F YOU SELECT THIS TYPE, NO FILE CONVERSIONS WILL BE
DONE, RESULTING IN A ├OPY OPERATION TO THE DESTINATION DISK.
╫HILE THE CONVERSION IS TAKING PLACE, THE FILES BEING
CONVERTED ARE DISPLAYED ON THE SCREEN WHILE SAVING, FOR
ENTERTAINMENT VALUE.
╨RESSING "─" AT THE MAIN COMMAND SCREEN CAUSES THE PROGRAM
TO ASK FOR A NEW DISK OF GRAPHIC FILES. ╫HEN YOU PRESS ╥┼╘╒╥╬,
THE NEW DISK WILL BE READ, AND THE DIRECTORY DISPLAYED ON THE
SCREEN. ┘OU SHOULD USE THIS COMMAND WHENEVER YOU CHANGE SOURCE
DISKS.
┼ITHER AT THE COMMAND SCREEN, OR AFTER PRESSING "─", YOU
CAN USE THE FUNCTION KEYS TO CHANGE THE ╙OURCE AND ─ESTINATION
DEVICE NUMBERS DISPLAYED ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE SCREEN. ┘OU
CAN SELECT ANY DEVICE/DRIVE COMBINATION, EVEN AN ILLEGAL ONE, SO
BE CAREFUL THAT THE DEVICE ┴╬─ DRIVE THAT YOU SELECT ARE LEGAL.
╔F YOU SELECT AN ILLEGAL SOURCE OR DESTINATION DEVICE OR DRIVE,
THE PROGRAM WILL PROBABLY APPEAR TO BE IGNORING YOUR COMMANDS
WHEN YOU REFERENCE THE ILLEGAL DRIVE.
╘HE ╙OURCE DRIVE IS THE DRIVE FROM WHICH GRAPHIC FILES WILL
BE LOADED, AND FROM WHICH THE DIRECTORY WILL BE READ WHEN YOU
CHANGED DISKS. ╘HE ─ESTINATION DRIVE IS THE DRIVE TO WHICH ANY
FILES CREATED WILL BE SAVED, EITHER FROM THE ╙AVE OPTION IN THE
╓IEW COMMAND, OR WHEN USING THE ├ONVERT/├OPY COMMAND. ┴LSO, THE
NUMBER OF BLOCKS FREE (DISPLAYED NEAR THE LOWER RIGHT CORNER) IS
DISPLAYED FOR THE ─ESTINATION DRIVE, NOT THE ╙OURCE DRIVE.
╘HAT COVERS ALL THE COMMANDS, AND THROUGH CREATIVE USE OF
THIS PROGRAM, YOU CAN DO SOME AMAZING THINGS. ╞OR EXAMPLE,
USING ╥┴═─╧╙, YOU CAN CREATE AN IMPRESSIVE ╥┼╒ SLIDESHOW BY
COPYING FILES TO THE ╥┴═ DISK, THEN PERFORMING A SLIDESHOW FROM
THAT DEVICE. ╘HE VIEW, SCRATCH, RENAME, AND COPY OPERATIONS
MAKE THIS PROGRAM VERY HELPFUL IN MANAGING A LARGE NUMBER OF
GRAPHIC FILES ACROSS MULTIPLE DISKS. ╘HE CONVERSION COMMANDS
ARE EXTREMELY HELPFUL WHEN YOU WISH TO USE THE FEATURES OF
SEVERAL DIFFERENT ART PROGRAMS TO COMPLETE A PICTURE. ┴LSO,
MANY OTHER UTILITIES REQUIRE FILES TO BE IN A SPECIFIC FORMAT
┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0 ╨AGE 5
(USUALLY ╦OALA OR ─OODLE) BEFORE THEY CAN USE THE FILES, AND
THIS PROGRAM CAN CONVERT MOST PICTURES TO THESE TYPES. ╠ASTLY,
THIS PROGRAM IS WELL-SUITED TO CONVERTING FILES TO AND FROM THE
COMPRESSED ╩╩ AND ╟╟ FORMATS FOUND SO OFTEN ON ┬┬╙'S AND ONLINE
SERVICES.
╬OTE TO 1581 ╒SERS
┴UTO╟RAPH ATTEMPTS TO SUPPORT 1581 PARTITIONS, IN A LIMITED
FASHION. ╫HEN YOU INSERT A NEW DISK AND READ THE ROOT
DIRECTORY, PARTITION FILES APPEAR ON THE MAIN SCREEN JUST LIKE
NORMAL GRAPHIC FILES, BUT THE FILETYPE IS SHOWN AS AN ARROW,
INDICATING THAT THE FILE IS A SUBDIRECTORY. ╔F YOU MOVE THE
CURSOR TO THE DIRECTORY AND PRESS ╥┼╘╒╥╬, THE SUBDIRECTORY WILL
BE OPENED AND READ. ╔F IT CONTAINS GRAPHIC FILES, YOU WILL SEE
THEM. ╔F NOT, A MESSAGE WILL BE DISPLAYED, AND YOU WILL BE
RETURNED TO THE ROOT DIRECTORY. ┴T ANY TIME, YOU CAN ALSO
RETURN TO THE ROOT DIRECTORY BY PRESSING THE "/" KEY.
┘OU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO SELECT (VIA ╙╨┴├┼ BAR OR "╘"
COMMAND) A PARTITION FILE, AND NO FILE OPERATIONS ARE ALLOWED ON
SUCH FILES, EXCEPT FOR ╥ENAME, WHICH ALLOWS YOU TO CHANGE THE
NAME OF A PARTITION FILE. ╬OTE THAT ALL PICTURE LOADS AND SAVES
WILL BE PERFORMED IN THE CURRENT OPEN PARTITION. ╘HERE IS
CURRENTLY NO WAY TO COPY FILES FROM ONE PARTITION TO ANOTHER ON
THE SAME DISK.
─ON'T ╥EAD ╘HIS!
╘HIS PROGRAM IS DISTRIBUTED AS ╞REE╫ARE, MEANING IF YOU
LIKE THE PROGRAM, THAT'S GREAT, AND IF YOU DON'T LIKE IT, TELL
ME WHY, AND MAYBE ╔ CAN HELP YOU WITH IT OR FIX SOMETHING THAT'S
WRONG WITH IT.
╔F YOU WISH TO CONTACT ME BY ┼-═AIL, ╔ CAN BE REACHED AS
"╞UZZY ╞OX" ON ╤UANTUM-╠INK. ╧R, YOU CAN CONTACT MY BY ╨-═AIL
(╨APER ═AIL!) AT THE FOLLOWING ADDRESS:
╞UZZY ╞OX
940 ╥AMBLEWOOD ─R.
╠EWISVILLE, ╘╪ 75067
┴LSO, IF YOU HAVE ANY DRAWINGS OR PICTURES OF FURRY
CRITTERS THAT YOU DON'T WANT ANY MORE, SEND THEM TO ME! ╔ LOVE
CUTE CRITTER DRAWINGS! ┴LSO, PLEASE DON'T SEND ANY CHECKS OR
MONEY ORDERS MADE OUT TO "╞UZZY ╞OX," AS MY BANK WILL NOT ACCEPT
THAT NAME, FOR SOME REASON.
╨LEASE ENJOY THE USE OF THIS PROGRAM, AND LOOK FOR UPGRADES
IN THE FUTURE, AS ╔ INTEND TO SUPPORT THIS PROGRAM. ╙PECIAL
┴UTO╟RAPH V1.0 ╨AGE 6
THANKS GO TO ALL THE PEOPLE WHO HELPED ME PUT THIS PROGRAM
TOGETHER AND MAKE IT WORK (EVEN WITHOUT A 1581 TO TEST WITH!).
╘HANKS, AND HAVE FUN!