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Information about “BOX (PROGRAMMERS UTILITY)”

BOX is a screen-designing tool that lets you quickly create entry
screens, help screens and menus.

You start with a blank screen, and using simple commands, you can draw
lines, boxes, enter text, and change foreground and background colors.
You can repeat an entry, paint an area, copy or move portions of the
screen and select special characters from an ASCII table.  Boxes are
incredibly easy to design, and several different border lines are
provided to create them.

Any screen can be saved in any of three formats, (ASCII, memory, or
packed), depending on the use of the screen.  ASCII format lets you save
your screen so it can be edited by a word processor.

Memory or packed format screens can be loaded directly and popped
instantly on the monitor from a Pascal or C program.  This disk also
contains all the source code routines that you need to incorporate BOX
in your Turbo Pascal programs.

FILE0842.TXT

Disk No:  842                                                           
Disk Title: BOX (Programmers utility)                                   
PC-SIG Version: S1.5                                                    
                                                                        
Program Title: BOX                                                      
Author Version: 2.0                                                     
Author Registration: $20.00                                             
Special Requirements: None.                                             
                                                                        
BOX is a screen-designing tool that lets you quickly create entry       
screens, help screens and menus.                                        
                                                                        
You start with a blank screen, and using simple commands, you can draw  
lines, boxes, enter text, and change foreground and background colors.  
You can repeat an entry, paint an area, copy or move portions of the    
screen and select special characters from an ASCII table.  Boxes are    
incredibly easy to design, and several different border lines are       
provided to create them.                                                
                                                                        
Any screen can be saved in any of three formats, (ASCII, memory, or     
packed), depending on the use of the screen.  ASCII format lets you save
your screen so it can be edited by a word processor.                    
                                                                        
Memory or packed format screens can be loaded directly and popped       
instantly on the monitor from a Pascal or C program.  This disk also    
contains all the source code routines that you need to incorporate BOX  
in your Turbo Pascal programs.                                          
                                                                        
PC-SIG                                                                  
1030D East Duane Avenue                                                 
Sunnyvale  Ca. 94086                                                    
(408) 730-9291                                                          
(c) Copyright 1989, 1990 PC-SIG, Inc.                                         

GO.TXT

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║                       <<<<  Disk #842 BOX   >>>>                        ║
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║ To copy the documentation to your printer type:                         ║
║                COPY BOX.DOC PRN (press enter)                           ║
║                                                                         ║
║ To start the program, type: BOX (press enter)                           ║
╚═════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝

GRAB.DOC



                                    GRAB
                         A Screen Capturing Utility
                          Hit ALT-PrtSc to activate


       GRAB.COM is a TSR screen-capturing utility that saves a copy of
       the current screen image in a BOX Memory format file.  GRAB is
       quite useful for creating demonstrations and training programs
       by capturing screens from operating programs.

       To use GRAB first load the program into memory by typing GRAB
       at the DOS prompt.  The program will write a short message on
       the screen confirming that it has been loaded.  After GRAB has
       been loaded into memory it will go to sleep and return you to
       the DOS prompt so that you may run any other program you wish.

       When you see a screen image that you want to capture, GRAB may
       be activated by hitting:

                            CTRL + ALT + G

       simultaneously.  GRAB will wake up, take a snapshot of the
       screen, and then write the screen image to the current disk
       drive and directory in a BOX Memory format.  The first file
       created by GRAB will be assigned the name BOX000.MEM.
       Subsequent files will named BOX001.MEM, BOX002.MEM and so on.

       Later you can load the screen images which have been saved with
       GRAB into the BOX editor and further modified.  Although GRAB
       only writes files in a Memory format you can easily modify the
       format by loading the file into BOX with a Memory format and
       saving the file with a ASCII or Packed format.

Directory of PC-SIG Library Disk #0842

 Volume in drive A has no label
 Directory of A:\

ADDRESS  1        4000   1-01-80  12:50a
ADDRESS  2        4000   1-01-80   1:00a
ADDRESS  3        4000   1-01-80   1:21a
ADDRESS  4        4000   1-01-80   1:20a
ADDRESS  DAT       688   3-25-90  11:19a
ADDRESS  LGO      4000   1-01-80  12:46a
ADDRESS  PAS     13134   3-25-90  11:20a
ADDRESS  SCR      4000   1-01-80  12:48a
ADDRGET  PAS      5107   3-24-90   5:11p
ADDRINFO WIN      6672   3-24-90   4:51p
ADDRIO   PAS     16341   3-24-90   5:08p
ADDRKEY2 PAS      3077   3-24-90   5:16p
ADDRMENU PAS      4421   3-25-90  11:17a
BOX      CFG       195   3-24-90  10:42p
BOX      DOC     66416   3-24-90   9:40p
BOX      EXE     62768   3-25-90  11:44a
BOXHELP  1        4000   2-01-90   2:09p
BOXHELP  2        4000   3-04-90   9:57p
BOXHELP  3        4000   1-01-80  12:20a
BOXHELP  4        4000   1-26-90   9:05a
BOXHELP  5        4000   1-26-90   9:05a
BOXHELP  6        4000   1-26-90   9:06a
BOXHELP  7        4000   1-26-90   9:07a
BOXHELP  8        4000   2-05-90   2:47p
BOXLOGO           4000   3-04-90   4:37p
EXAMPLE1 PAS       738   3-24-90  10:34p
EXFILE   ASC      2050   3-24-90  10:29p
EXFILE   MEM      4000   3-24-90  10:26p
EXFILE   PAK       765   3-24-90  10:30p
EXFILE   WIN      1128   3-24-90  10:33p
GRAB     COM       828   3-24-90   6:55p
GRAB     DOC      1604   3-24-90   5:40p
LOADFILE PAS      6671   3-25-90  11:05a
GO       BAT        38   7-08-87  12:19a
GO       TXT       617   5-16-90  11:56p
FILE0842 TXT      2449   5-18-90   3:24p
       36 file(s)     259707 bytes
                       51200 bytes free