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ADMENU.DOC
AdLib ZIP Menu Version 3.0
Released April 19, 1991
Written by Keith Ledbetter
4240 Ketcham Drive
Chesterfield, VA 23832
(804) 674-0780
(6:00pm - 10:00pm Eastern Time)
Tech Support BBS: Blue Ridge Express
804-790-1675
26 Phone Lines
Sub-board KEITHL
("J KEITHL")
Electronic mail on GEnie: ORION.MICRO
CompuServe: 72240,1221
AdMenu and ADMplay are Copyright 1990-1991 by Keith Ledbetter.
All rights reserved.
Portions Copyright Borland, International. Written in Borland C++.
AdMenu v3.0 Page 1
Revision History
Version Changes made
------- --------------------
3.0 - AdMenu now has its own "ROL player"! This new
player is called ADMPLAY.EXE, and should be
placed somewhere in your PATH directories. This
module replaces the PLAYROL.EXE file that you
needed with earlier releases. Since 99% of the
tech support questions on Admenu were because
of PLAYROL (eg: "not enough memory to allocate
timbre"), I decided to write my own. This should
alleviate all of the "out of memory" problems
people have been having when they have very large
bank files.
2.0 - "ZIP comments" are now used (instead of the file
name) as a way to give more meaningful titles to
your songs. If no comment is in the ZIP file for
a given song, that file's name will appear as the
title. The maximum length of each comment is 25
characters.
- Loading of the ZIP file is now about 80% faster.
- Maximum number of songs per ZIP file was reduced
from 2048 to 1024, due to the overhead of allowing
longer song names (25 characters instead of 8).
- Added an "Edit" button so that you can easily
add comments (longer song titles) to your ZIP
file. PKZIP will be spawned to add each title.
If you're doing lots of comment editing, it'll
probably be a lot faster to do it yourself with
PKZIP, as in:
C:> pkzip -c songs.zip b*.rol
which will allow you to add comments to all of
your B*.ROL files in one shot.
- Added a "Sort song names" function, mostly to
be used after you've "E"dited a bunch of song
names.
1.2 - Major cosmetic changes were made to the display.
- Added a "find" function to search for partial
text in the song names.
- Pressing ALT + a letter (ie: ALT-B) takes you to
the first song whose name begins with that letter
(or, the next letter if no songs exist starting
AdMenu v3.0 Page 2
Revision History
with the specified letter).
1.1 Minor cosmetic changes.
1.0 Initial release.
AdMenu v3.0 Page 3
Introduction
Thank you for taking the time to try out AdMenu v3.0. I just recently
purchased an Adlib Music card, and I couldn't believe how quickly I ate up
disk space with various song files (".ROL" files). In just the first week
after purchasing the Adlib card, I had 496 song files eating up over 4 MB
of precious space on my hard drive.
So, one day I got to thinking (yes, I know how dangerous that is!) ...
"Hmmm...wouldn't it be great if there was some way for me to ZIP down all of
these song files, yet still play them quickly and painlessly?".
And (surprise, surprise), AdMenu was my answer to my own needs. AdMenu
allows you to ZIP down all of your .ROL files into one ZIP file, yet still
play them from AdMenu's powerful menu system. AdMenu will present you with
a scrollable menu of each file within your song ZIP file, which you can
easily play at the touch of a button. AdMenu also supports (but does not
require) a Microsoft compatible mouse. AdMenu will support up to 2,048
files within a single ZIP file. If you have more files than this, simply
create multiple ZIP files and tell AdMenu through the command line parameter
which one you want to use.
AdMenu doesn't do all of the work itself, so the following two programs
are REQUIRED to use AdMenu: ADMPLAY.EXE and PKUNZIP.EXE. ADMPLAY was
included in the archive for AdMenu; PKUNZIP is readily available on both
GEnie and CompuServe.
AdMenu v3.0 Page 4
How It Works
AdMenu works hand-in-hand with two other programs which you must have
somewhere in your PATH chain. When AdMenu boots up, it reads all of the
".ROL" filenames present in the ZIP file that you told it to use. It will
then present you with a menu from which you can select song(s) to be played.
When you select a song, AdMenu does the following steps:
o It creates a temporary directory on drive C:\.
(See below if you need to change it to another drive).
o It calls PKUNZIP to extract the file selected into the
temporary directory just created.
o It calls ADMPLAY.EXE to play the song just extracted.
o It deletes the extracted file and the temporary directory.
You must make sure that both PKUNZIP.EXE and ADMPLAY.EXE are somewhere in
your PATH. Just to make sure, AdMenu checks this for you when it's first
invoked, and will refuse to run if these programs aren't found. Also, AdMenu
DOES NOT load SOUND.COM for you; you must make sure that your sound driver is
installed before running AdMenu.
If you would prefer that AdMenu create the temporary files on a drive
other than drive C:, you can set an environment variable named AD_DRIVE. For
example, to tell AdMenu to use drive D: instead of drive C:, you would do the
following:
"set ad_drive=D"
The easiest way to do this is to put the above command into your AUTOEXEC.BAT
file, so it will always get set at bootup time.
AdMenu v3.0 Page 5
Setting It Up and Running It
OK, enough of that boring stuff. Let's get our ZIP file set up and try
AdMenu out. In this example, we will assume that:
(a) all of your .ROL files are in a subdirectory
named C:\ADLIB\SONGS.
(b) that your STANDARD.BNK file is in C:\ADLIB.
First, you would change to your C:\ADLIB\SONGS subdirectory and enter in
the following command:
"pkzip -m Songs.Zip *.rol"
This command will create a ZIP file named SONGS.ZIP, and will move each
.ROL file into the ZIP file and then delete them. Go ahead and execute this
command......there, that should have freed up TONS of disk space!
Now, make sure that your SOUND.COM sound driver is installed, and then
simply invoke AdMenu with the following command:
"AdMenu c:\adlib\songs\songs.zip c:\adlib\standard.bnk"
With this command line, you have told AdMenu that (a) your song ZIP file
is named "c:\adlib\songs\songs.zip", and that you want to use the bank file
named "c:\adlib\standard.bnk". If you have PKUNZIP and ADMPLAY in your PATH
directories, then AdMenu will proceed to load in the filenames from your ZIP
file and present you with a menu of each song available.
AdMenu v3.0 Page 6
Working With the Menu
You should now be looking at AdMenu's main menu. You will notice a
scroll box in the middle of the screen with the different song names in it.
You can scroll up and down these names with either of the following ways:
o The up and down cursor keys
o The PgUp and PgDn keys
o Clicking on the scroll-bar arrows
o Clicking on the PgUp or PgDn boxes
The song name that is highlighted in red is the current song that you
wish to act on. You can do the following:
o Press <Return>, <P>, click the left mouse button, or
click on the Play box to play this one song.
o Press <M>, click the right button, or click on the
Mark box to mark this song for playing.
o Press <A> or click on the Play All Marked box to play
all songs that you have marked (this option will only
be available if you have at least one song marked).
If you are playing "All marked songs", you will be given roughly ten
seconds at the end of each song to abort the playing. If you don't press a
key within this time, the program will continue on playing the next song.
AdMenu v3.0 Page 7
That's All, Folks!
That's about it for AdMenu. I think the program is pretty easy to
catch on to, so I'm not going to go on with page after page of documentation.
While this program is copyrighted by me, it may be distributed freely by any
individual or club as long as no more than $2 is charged for the service.
If you have any comments about this program, or have specific things that
you'd like to see added to it, please drop me a line at any of the places
mentioned on the first page of this document.
If you feel that you'd like to contribute some money for this program,
it would be graciously accepted. You can mail it to the address given on the
first page. If you don't send money, at least drop me some Email and let me
know that you are using the program and benefitting from it (if you're not
benefitting from it, tell me why so I can fix it!).
Enjoy!
Keith Ledbetter
AdMenu v3.0 Page 8
Keith Ledbetter's Software Catalog
Keith Ledbetter's Software Catalog
----------------------------------
Listed below is a chart of my other shareware and freeware utilities,
along with the current version number of each. Also listed is the
filename that you will find them under on BBS systems (please note that
they may be different on your favorite BBS's, but it should help you at
least get close to locating them). When you register one of my Shareware
programs, you will receive a disk with ALL of these utilities on it.
Filename Version Description
----------- ------- -------------------------------
SST_52A.ZIP 5.2a The ultimate file-finder program. Until
recently this was simply called "WhereIs".
It's now been renamed to "Supersonic Search
Tool" to avoid confusion with other programs.
Shareware: $15
LCD_21A.ZIP 2.1a "Led's Change Directory" is an intelligent
directory changing program. This program was
voted one of "the 10 best utilities of 1990"
by the "Public (software) Library" magazine.
Shareware: $15
AV_12.ZIP 1.2 "Archive Viewer" is used to display the names
of members of all of the popular archiving
programs (ZIP, ARC, LHARC, PKARC, ZOO, PAK).
No longer do you have to struggle remembering
the syntax to 6 different archiving programs.
Freeware: $0
X_30.ZIP 3.0 "X: The Executioner" can save you a lot of
disk space. X allows you to ZIP down those
seldom-used-but-hard-to-delete .COM, .EXE,
and .BAT files into one system "Command
Library". You can then execute them easily
by simply typing an "x" in front of the
command line (eg: "x chkdsk c:").
Freeware: $0
ADMENU30.ZIP 3.0 If you own an Adlib Music card, you need this
program. It allows you to ZIP down all of
those .ROL song files you've accumulated, yet
still play them with no extra effort! Uses
a mouse-able, easy-on-the-eyes window system.
Freeware: $0
DELDIR12.ZIP 1.2 "Delete Directory" allows you to delete an
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Keith Ledbetter's Software Catalog
entire directory (and all directories under
it) with one quick command. You will be
shown totals of what you are about to delete
and then be asked to confirm (the confirm
process can be over-ridden from the command
line).
Freeware: $0
DIRSIZ11.ZIP 1.1 "Directory Size Information" allows you to
easily determine the total size (in both
files and bytes) of any directory.
Freeware: $0
DUPICO10.ZIP 1.0 "Duplicate Icon Deleter" is for any Windows
3.0 user who has accumulated tons of icons.
It will go through a directory and delete all
duplicate icon images, regardless of what they
are named.
Freeware: $0
TIMER10.ZIP 1.0 This program allows you to easily time the
execution of any program. Simply use TIMER
to invoke the command (eg: "timer chkdsk C:")
and you will be shown, at the completion of
the command, the elapsed time.
Freeware: $0
UNTAB10.ZIP 1.0 One of the fastest "un-tab" programs you will
find. It takes the specified input file and
copies it to the specified output file,
replacing all tab characters with hard blanks
(you specify the "tab size").
Freeware: $0
You can download all of these files from the Blue Ridge Express in
Richmond, VA. This is the official tech support board for all of my
software, and there's a special "Keith Ledbetter" message section where
you can quickly get your questions answered. Once you log on, just do
a "J KEITHL" to join my sub-board.
The Blue Ridge Express is a first-class BBS, with 26 phone lines; no
need to worry about getting a busy signal! The number is:
The Blue Ridge Express BBS
804-790-1675
End of document.
CDROM.TXT
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The PC-SIG Library on CD-ROM is our premier collection of the entire
PC-SIG library. It has over 3000 different, and complete applications
for your every need. Every shareware program we have is on one disc;
over 700 megabytes (unzipped) of software you can have immediate access
to.
Easy to use, all you have to do is insert the disc and type 'GO' at the
DOS prompt. We've included all the tools you need for fast easy access
to the programs and their descriptions.
Whether you're interested in Accounting or Windows, there's a shareware
program for you on the PC-SIG Library on CD-ROM.
Winner of the Optical Publishing Assn's Best Consumer Product Award.
Shareware for every imaginable need: Accounting Chemistry Educational
Engineering Games Hypertext Networks Programming Spreadsheets Utilities
Word Processing
# # #
PC-SIG UPDATES PC-SIG LIBRARY ON CD-ROM
For Immediate Release
PC-SIG LIBRARY ON CD-ROM UPDATED TO INCLUDE A NEW USER INTERFACE AND MORE
THAN 800 MB OF PROGRAMS June 21, 1992, SUNNYVALE, CALIF. - PC-SIG, Inc.
today announced availability of The Eleventh Edition of the PC-SIG Library
on CD-ROM. The PC-SIG Library on CD-ROM contains over 800 megabytes of
shareware and includes more than 300 new programs, 550 updated programs,
and the addition of 75 megabytes of Windows 3.x shareware. The
user-interface has been completely re-engineered to take advantage of the
HyperWriter! hypermedia and multimedia authoring system from NTERGAID, Inc.
The implementation of HyperWriter! provides significant performance and
ease of use enhancements. Programs can access and download much faster
than with previous editions. Programs have been reorganized and indexed
for better referencing. Users just c lick with a mouse, or point with the
cursor, on a program name to see a complete description of the program.
Downloading or copying a program is handled automatically by HyperWriter!
Addition of a preview option is especially important for anyone who uses
images, icons, or fonts. "You can preview the whole library of images to
find the right one," according to Bruce Kent, product development manager.
"This CD finally makes it possi ble to conserve your disk space and paper,
yet still have all the information you need to make an informed decision,"
said Kent.
All new and updated programs have been reviewed and tested by PC-SIG. Every
program goes through extensive virus checking using the most recent version
of VIRUSCAN from McAfee Associates, and other anti-virus software.
According to Kent, "In the ten ye ars we've distributed shareware, we have
never had a confirmed report of a virus on any of our distributed programs
or CD-ROMs."
The PC-SIG Library on CD-ROM, Eleventh Edition has a list price of $179.
Upgrades from previous editions are available for $99.
Users of PC-SIG's Essential Home & Business Collection CD-ROM can upgrade
for $120.
PC-SIG CD-ROMs are distributed worldwide through a network of distributors
and resellers. Based in Sunnyvale, Calif., PC-SIG, Inc. markets and
supports one of the world's largest collections of shareware for IBM PCs
and compatible systems. PC-SIG also publishes Shareware Magazine, which is
devoted solely to shareware. The magazine is availa ble by subscription
and on newsstands nationwide.
System Requirements:
IBM PC/XT/AT PS/2 or compatible with 640K memory, DOS 3.1 or higher and
Microsoft MS-DOS CD ROM extensions, and a hard drive. Microsoft compatible
mouse supported and VGA highly recommended.
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Outside the U.S.A. call (408) 730-9291 for the name of the dealer in
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GIFEXE.DOC
G I F E X E
Version 1.0
June 10, 1990
A Self-Displayer Program for Your GIF(tm) Pictures
Copyright 1990,1991 Steve Enns and Dan Magosse.
All right reserved.
GIFEXE is produced by:
Steve Enns Dan Magosse
2425 Haultain Ave. 1321 14th St. East
Saskatoon, Sk. Saskatoon, Sk.
Canada S7J 1R2 Canada S7H 0A6
Okay, here's the boring stuff, but don't worry, it's better
than chewing tinfoil:
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Kudos, thanks, and good karma to John Bridges for the
enlightening information and code contained in his VGAKIT
package. Trademarks like GIF(tm) and PC(tm) are held by
their respective companies.
DISCLAIMER
The GIFEXE program is provided without warranty of any
kind. The user of the GIFEXE assumes complete
responsibility for any and all incidental or consequential
damages which may occur during normal or abnormal use of the
GIFEXE program. Use the GIFEXE program at your own risk.
LICENSE
The entire GIFEXE package, including the GIFEXE program,
documentation, and sample files are Copyright 1990,1991
Steve Enns and Dan Magosse. All rights reserved. The
unregistered shareware version of the GIFEXE may be freely
distributed to others by any means, as long the following
(three) conditions are met:
1) GIFEXE is distributed in a "package" containing
the following three files:
GIFEXE.EXE
GIFEXE.DOC
GE-READ.ME
2) GIFEXE is not distributed as part of any other
product, except with specific written permission from
the authors.
3) NO fee of any kind is charged for the GIFEXE
package or for the service of providing the package,
except Computer Bulletin Board Systems, which may
distribute the GIFEXE package even though they may
charge a membership or service fee.
You can use the "shareware" version for as long as you want,
even until you're well into your nineties, but you are of
course encouraged to send us lots of money, too. (I'm
struggling to pay for my violin lessons, and Dan needs a new
fishing rod.) Here are some other programs we've made:
GIFWARP! Warp, bend stretch your GIFs for
interesting effects.
GIFCLIP Clip/crop your GIFs, add text or your
own GIF logo or signature.
These programs are available in licensed SuperVGA versions
for $8.00 U.S. each, or get both, and the latest version of
GIFEXE for $15.00 U.S.
REQUIREMENTS
GIFEXE requires the following:
- PC(tm)/XT(tm)/AT(tm)/386(tm) computer thing
- About 280K of free RAM
- DOS 3.0, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.0 (others untested)
- A VGA or SuperVGA card
and optionally:
- GIFEXE supports modes like 640x480, 800x600
with 256 colours on 512K SuperVGA cards from
ATI, Ahead, Cirrus, Chips and Technologies,
Everex, OAK, Paradise, Trident, Tseng and
Video7.
INSTALLATION
Copy the GIFEXE program (and this helpful document of
course!) to any directory that you want - perhaps with
your favourite GIF(tm) viewer somewhere in the DOS
path.
USAGE
Syntax for GIFEXE is as follows:
GIFEXE [?] infilename[.GIF] [outfilename[.EXE]]
After making an .EXE file, (see below) the /mode parameter
may be used as follows:
/mode=0 Ordinary 320x200 mode
/mode=1 Low resolution SVGA
640x400 or 640x350
depending on your card.
/mode=2 Medium resolution 640x480
/mode=3 High resolution 800x600
{ /mode=4 Higher resolution 1024x768
Coming soon? } )
For example, try:
C> GIFEXE to see the title screen
C> GIFEXE ? to see the help/brag screen
C> GIFEXE house to make the .EXE HOUSE.EXE
from the file HOUSE.GIF
C> GIFEXE house house2 make the .EXE file HOUSE2.EXE,
from the GIF(tm) HOUSE.GIF
TUTORIAL
(Nothin' to it!)
Try out the following with your favourite GIF(tm) picture:
C> GIFEXE picturename
GIFEXE will prduce an EXE program with the name
"picturename.EXE" That's it! Now just run the program
you've just made:
C> picturename
The picture will be displayed on your screen in VGA, or in
SuperVGA if your computer has SuperVGA, and the picture
requires it. If you want a small (VGA) picture to be
displayed in SuperVGA resolution, try:
C> picturename /mode=2
to display the picture in medium SuperVGA resolution.
HINTS
- The EXEs produced by GIFEXE are handy for startup screens
on your computer, or title screens for your programs.
ERRORS
- The following self explanatory error messages may be
produced by GIFEXE. The errors involving the GIF(tm) files
will generally be due to disk errors or faulty image files.
Other errors refer to lack of enough free RAM space, or lack
of required hardware (VGA).
Can't initialize VGA graphics!
Unexpected EOF reading GIF!
Premature end of GIF!
Not GIF file!
Invalid GIF format
Error writing GIF!
Buffer allocation failure!
NOTES
- GIFEXE reads both GIF87A standard (the original) and
new GIF89A pictures, although most of the extensions in the
new GIF89A standard like (silly) text windows are ignored.
The last image in multi-image GIFs will be the one displayed
by GIFEXE.
HISTORY
- Version 1.0 Completed June.1 1991
GIFLITE.DOC
====== GIFLITE 1.51 =========================== Order Form ======
Please send cheque or money order made payable to "White River
Software", overseas order in money order, please. (Note that the
current postage from US to Canada is $0.40.)
White River Software
P.O.Box 938, Unit 105
St. Catharines, Ontario
L2R 6Z4 Canada
-----------------------------------------------------------------
Qty. Item US/CAD Amount
___ GIFLITE Registration @ $20/$23 $________
(with registered version and document on disk)
Add $1 per copy for 3.5 disk $________
Shipping and handling outside US and Canada @ $2 $________
Total US$________/CAD$________
Signature __________________________
Name ________________________________________________________
Address ________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________
Country _____________________ Phone (______) _________________
Where did you first hear about GIFLITE ?_________________________
Comments ________________________________________________________
_________________________________________________________________
Which chip set is your VGA using?
[ ] AheadA [ ] AheadB [ ] ATI Wonder [ ] Chip & Tech [ ] Everex
[ ] Genoa [ ] NCR [ ] Oak Tech [ ] Paradise [ ] Trident
[ ] Trident 8900 [ ] Tseng [ ] Tseng 4000 [ ] Video7
[ ] VESA compatible [ ] Others ___________________
[ ] Image displayed correctly [ ] Image displayed incorrectly
=================================================================
GIFLITE (tm) GIF Compressor 1.51
________________________________
User Manual
(c) Copyright 1992
White River Software
All Rights Reserved.
17 April 1992
P.O.Box 938 Unit 105
St. Catharines
Ontario, L2R 6Z4
Canada
TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION 1
What is GIFLITE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
REGISTRATION 2
Evaluation Version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Disclaimer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
USING GIFLITE 4
SET GIFLITE= Environment Variable . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Command Line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Command Options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
ERRORLEVEL Exit Value . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
EXAMPLES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
IMAGES THAT SHOULD BE NOT COMPRESSED 12
INTRODUCTION 1
INTRODUCTION
__________________________________________________________________
High resolution VGA's and full color scanners have produced a
mass volume of high quality digitized images. Most of these
images available in Bulletin Board System (BBS) are stored in
the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF).
Though the GIF format uses a compression algorithm to store a
image, the size of the resulting file can still easily over
100K bytes or even over 200K bytes. If you are a GIF collector
or a BBS sysop, you will find your GIF collection occupied a
large portion of your hard disk.
How would you like to save 25% of those expensive disk space?
WHAT IS GIFLITE
GIFLITE is an easy to use GIF file compression program. It
compresses the GIF files so that they will require much less
disk space yet still preserve the same quality and resolution.
With GIFLITE, high quality digitized GIF images can be further
compressed by an average of 15% to 35% depending on the
complexity of the images. What makes GIFLITE special is that
the resulting GIF file are almost identical to the original
file. Human eyes can hardly tell them apart.
GIFLITE conforms to both GIF87a and GIF89a standards. All non-
image information is preserved in the resulting GIF files. The
compressed images can be read by standard GIF decoders, such
as VPIC v4+ and CSHOW v8.3+.
Using GIFLITE is much like using the other file compressors.
If you have used any file compressor, you will find yourself
already familiar with the command structure and options.
If you have any questions, you can write to us, or leave e-
mail to "Winfred Hu" in the following BBSs' main board or in
CompuServe to [72070,3515]. We appreciate suggestions and
ideas.
PC Connect: Toronto, Canada (416)733-9052 USR-HST/ds
SouthWest Connect: Chatham, Canada (519)352-7010 USR-HST/ds
User To User #1: Dallas, USA (214)492-6565 USR-HST/ds
User To User #2: Dallas, USA (214)492-5695 HAYES V.42
REGISTRATION 2
REGISTRATION
__________________________________________________________________
GIFLITE is not free. You must register after the 15-day
evaluation time period.
GIFLITE is a Shareware product. It is distributed through
public access channels so that perspective buyers can have the
opportunity to evaluate the product before making a decision
to buy. If you decide to use this software, then you are under
both legal and moral obligation to register it with the
author. But if you decide not to use it after evaluating the
software, you are under no obligation. It is fully protected
by State, Federal and International copyright laws.
If you continue to use GIFLITE after the 15-day evaluation
time period you must register it.
Registration Fee : $ 20.0 US
or $ 23.0 CAD
To register your copy of GIFLITE, fill in the order form and
mail along with your cheque or money order payable to "White
River Software" in US or CAD to the address indicated in the
form.
When you register, you will receive the program diskette of
the current version with your registration number on it.
Registration entitles you continue using the current version
and all future versions. The registration number will remove
any limitation functions in the unregistered version of the
current and the FUTURE releases.
EVALUATION VERSION
The evaluation version or the unregistered version distributed
through the Shareware channel has the following limitation:
1. The maximum resolution of an input GIF file is 640x480.
2. The -f option (Filter out the GIFLITE header) is not
available.
3. The -h option (Do not insert GIFLITE header to output
file) is not available.
The limitation is removed in the registered version.
REGISTRATION 3
LICENSE
You are free to copy and distribute GIFLITE for NON-COMMERCIAL
use IF:
NO FEE IS CHARGED FOR USE, COPYING OR DISTRIBUTION,
AND IT IS NOT MODIFIED IN ANY WAY.
Computer user groups or clubs may make copies of GIFLITE for
distribution to members for a fee that covers copying and
other administrative costs. Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) that
operate through subscription fees may post GIFLITE for
download by its subscribers.
Disk distributors of Shareware or User-Supported software may
distribute GIFLITE, which includes the program and the
document, for a fee under US$8 which covers copying and other
administrative costs. Otherwise, the distributors have to
obtain a written permission from the author.
DISCLAIMER
This program is provided AS IS without any warranty, expressed
or implied, including but not limited to fitness for a
particular use.
Since, the GIF file format does not contain decompression
information, the compression process is not reversible, which
means once the images is compressed, it cannot be expanded to
the original. Make a backup if you want to restore the
original images.
TRADEMARKS
GIFLITE is a trademark of the author.
Graphics Interchange Format and GIF are trademarks of
CompuServe Inc. and H&R Block Company.
Many specific products found in this manual are trademarks of
specific companies.
USING GIFLITE 4
USING GIFLITE
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GIFLITE requires an IBM PC/AT/fully compatible computer, DOS
2.2 or greater, a minimum of 300K bytes of memory.
Optional: GIFLITE makes full use of EMS (EXPanded Memory), XMS
(EXTended Memory), hard disk space and VGA board memory during
compression.
GIFLITE is Windows aware and will use text mode under these
multitaskers.
SET GIFLITE= ENVIRONMENT VARIABLE
To help locating the files GIFLITE.EXE and GIFLITE.USE, you
should put the environment variable into the AUTOEXEC.BAT, for
example,
SET GIFLITE=C:\GIF
If you are using DOS 2.2 to 3.0, it indicates the directory
where GIFLITE.EXE is in and where GIFLITE.USE should be in. If
you are using DOS 3.1 or higher, it indicates where the
GIFLITE.USE should be in.
This environment variable tells GIFLITE to put the usage log
into a single GIFLITE.USE even if you are compress the GIF
files in different directory. If the variable is not present
and you are using DOS 3.1 or higher, the usage log will be put
into the same directory as the GIFLITE.EXE.
IMPORTANT: If you are using the registered version under DOS
2.2 to 3.0, you MUST setup the environment variable.
Otherwise, GIFLITE may not be able to locate the registration
number and treated the copy as if it is not registered.
USING GIFLITE 5
COMMAND LINE
All the commands used are entered on the command line at the
DOS prompt. These options tell GIFLITE to carry out certain
commands when the program is loaded. Below is the description
of the command line options.
The GIFLITE command line structure is:
GIFLITE [options] [GifFile]|[@ListFile] [OutFile]
Parameters lists in [] are optional. If no option and file
name is specified, GIFLITE will display a help screen listing
all the options. To compress files, either [GifFile] or
[@GifList] must be presented in the command line.
[GifFile] is the name and directory of the source GIF file to
be compressed. The file name can contain wildcard character
'*' and '?'. To prevent running out of memory, the wildcard
expression should not contain too many files, say thousands.
[@ListFile] is a file containing a list of the GIF files to be
compressed. This option is used when the GIF files cannot be
expressed as a wildcard easily. The names in the list file are
separated by a space or a carriage return and the names can
contain wildcard character. To prevent running out of memory,
the list file should not contains too many file names, say
thousands.
[OutFile] is the name and directory of the output GIF file. If
only path is specified, the output file with the same name of
the original file will be created in the specified path.
[options] are the GIFLITE options that you can specify. The
following is a summary of all options available in GIFLITE.
-9 Replace GIF87a header with GIF89a header.
-b No backup .BAK file of the original.
-f Filter out the GIFLITE header
-h Do not insert the GIFLITE header to output file.
-i Ignore GIFLITE header in the original.
-l No usage log to GIFLITE.USE.
-m Use method 0, 1, 2 or 3 (default is 1).
-o Overwrite output if it exists.
-s Statistics on usage log.
-t Text mode only, no graphic display.
-u Update file time/date to current time/date.
-@ Exclude files.
USING GIFLITE 6
COMMAND OPTIONS
All command options must be preceded by a '-' or '/'
character. The options are described below.
-9 Replace GIF87a header with GIF89a header.
This option will replace the GIF87a header in the output file
with the new GIF89a header. The GIF89a header ensures
compatibility between a GIF89a decoder and the GIFLITE header.
However, GIF87a decoder will not be able to decode the
resulting GIF file. For maximum compatibility with GIF87a and
GIF89a decoders, you should use the -h option instead.
Note: CompuServe Graphics Forum accepts GIFLITE processed GIF
files ONLY IF
1. The GIF file is compressed with the -9 option, or
2. The GIF file is compressed with the -h option.
-b No backup .BAK file of the original.
By default, a backup file with a .BAK extension of the
original uncompressed file is created. If you specify this
option, no backup file is created. This option is useful when
you are compressing a large volume of GIF files and you do not
have the disk space for backup.
-f Filter out the GIFLITE header.
This option provides a way to filter out the GIFLITE header
without recompressing the file. It is used when you have
compressed a collection of GIF files with the unregistered
version or without using the -h option and later you want
maximum compatibility with non-standard decoders. This option
is available in the registered version only.
-h Do not insert the GIFLITE header to output file.
By default, GIFLITE will insert a short header to the output
file indicating it is compressed by GIFLITE. If you specify
this option, the header will not be inserted into the output
file. According to the GIF87a standard, the header will be
ignored by a GIF decoder and most decoders conform to the
standard. For maximum compatibility with non-standard decoder,
you should specify this option. This option is available in
the registered version only.
Note: CompuServe Graphics Forum accepts GIFLITE processed GIF
files ONLY IF
1. The GIF file is compressed with the -9 option, or
2. The GIF file is compressed with the -h option.
USING GIFLITE 7
-i Ignore GIFLITE header in the original.
During compression, GIFLITE will check if a GIFLITE header
exists in the source file and abort the process if it exists.
This prevents compressing an already compressed file. If you
specify this option, GIFLITE will ignore the header and
attempt to compress the file. The old header will be replaced
by a new one.
-l No usage log to GIFLITE.USE.
Normally, GIFLITE will produce an usage log file GIFLITE.USE
recording the compression information so that you can keep
track of which files are compressed and the ratio of
compression. If you specify this option, the compression
information will not be written to the usage log file.
-m[0,1,2,3] Use method 0, 1, 2 or 3.
The default method 1 produces an output file with maximum
compression. Method 2 produces a less compressed file and
method 3 produces a least compressed file. For most images,
the output images are almost identical to the source images.
But for some images, such as hand-drawn images or images with
detail texture, method 2 and method 3 will reserve better
quality of the original images. Method 0 stores the image
without compression and can be used to insert the GIFLITE
header in order to prevent recompression. In case if the
original picture is not encoded efficiently, method 0 may
reduce the size.
-o Overwrite output if it exists.
If the file you specified in the output file already exists,
this option tells GIFLITE to automatically overwrite the
output file. If you do not use this option, GIFLITE will
prompt you for confirmation before it overwriting any existing
output file.
-s Statistics on usage log.
The usage log GIFLITE.USE also allows you to perform a
statistic analysis on it. This option displays the number of
files recorded in the usage log, the original file size, the
compressed file size and the overall compression ratio. This
option overrides other options and no compression will be
performed.
USING GIFLITE 8
-t Text mode only, no graphic display.
By default, GIFLITE will attempt to display the image on
screen during compression. Using the video memory, GIFLITE
avoids using the main memory, EMS, XMS or disk space as
secondary storage to store the temporary image. If you specify
this option or if there is a conflict between the resolution
of the image and the screen, it will be compressed in text
mode. If GIFLITE does not display the image correctly on the
screen, you have a video adapter other than a VGA, or you are
running GIFLITE in a multitasker, this option should be used
to avoid the conflict.
-u Update file time/date to current time/date.
This option assigns the current date and time to the output
file. If you do not use this option, the date and time will be
preserved in the output file.
-@ExcludeListFile Exclude files specified in ExcludeListFile.
This option allows you to specify a list of files you want to
exclude. The ExcludeListFile should contains one file name per
line. The file name must not contain directory or wildcard
characters. Any characters after the file name are ignored.
This format allows the usage log file GIFLITE.USE to be used
as the exclude list file.
ERRORLEVEL EXIT VALUE
When exit, GIFLITE sets the ERRORLEVEL exit value to one of
the following:
0, Success: All files are compressed successfully.
1, Unrecoverable Error: Any error that aborts the program, for
example, Invalid command line, File not found, Disk full, Not
enough memory, etc.
2, Recoverable Error: One or more of the input files have an
image error or are already compressed by GIFLITE. The
compression will continue until all the other files are
processed.
3, Unregister Limit Reached: One or more of the input files
have a resolution greater than 640x480, if you are using an
unregistered copy of GIFLITE. The compression will continue
until all the other files are processed.
USING GIFLITE 9
EXAMPLES
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1. The simplest form of GIFLITE is
C:\GIF>GIFLITE PICTURE.GIF
In this example, the file PICTURE.GIF will be compressed and
the output file will overwrite the original file. A backup of
the original file is produced as PICTURE.BAK.
After the file is compressed, GIFLITE will display the
original size of the file, the compressed size, and the
compression ratio.
2. The following illustrates the use of an output directory.
C:\GIF>GIFLITE -o K* D:\GIFLITE
In this example, the GIF files started with a 'K' are
compressed to the directory D:\GIFLITE with the same file name
as the original. Since no extension for the files are
specified, GIFLITE automatically compress the files with a
.GIF extension. The -o option tells GIFLITE to overwrite any
existing output file automatically.
3. For the statistic analysis,
C:\GIF>GIFLITE -s
The -s option reads the usage log GIFLITE.USE and calculates
the total original size, compressed size and the overall
compression ratio.
4. GIFLITE will attempt to display the GIF files on screen during
compression. In case of incompatibility with the video card,
the -t option will forces GIFLITE to use text mode only. For
example,
C:\GIF>GIFLITE -t *
5. To compress a hand-drawn image or a image with detail texture,
C:\GIF>GIFLITE -m3 HANDRAWN.GIF
The -m3 option specifies compression method 3 which may
produce a more acceptable but less compressed image.
USING GIFLITE 10
6. To compress all the GIF files without making backups,
C:\>GIFLITE -b C:\GIF\*
The wildcard 'C:\GIF\*' tells GIFLITE to compress all *.GIF
files in the C:\GIF directory. The -b option prevents GIFLITE
from making backup.
7. If you are a BBS sysop or a GIF producer, you should compress
the GIF file with the -h option for maximum compatibility with
non-standard GIF decoders. And you could put a message into
the bulletin saying that the GIF files in your BBS are
compressed by GIFLITE to prevent users from compressing an
already compressed GIF files.
C:\GIF>GIFLITE -h @GIFLITE.LST
The example also illustrates the use of a list file
GIFLITE.LST. A list file contains one or more lines of file
specification separated by a space or a carriage return, for
example
C:\GIF1\A* D:\GIF2\B*
E:\GIF3\C*
8. If you have already compressed a lot of GIF files with the
unregistered version or without using the -h option, you can
filter out the GIFLITE header quickly with the -f option.
C:\GIFLITE>GIFLITE -f -b *
If you are a BBS sysop and you want to keep the GIF files in
maximum compatibility with non-standard decoders, you can
filter out the GIFLITE header from newly upload GIF files with
this option.
Normally there is no need to filter out the GIFLITE header
since the header provides additional information and you can
avoid compressing an already compressed file.
9. Some BBSs, such as CompuServe, have a strict policy with the
GIF files. Then you should compress the GIF file with the -9
option which replace the GIF87a header with GIF89a header OR
with the -h option which skip inserting the GIFLITE header.
For example,
C:\GIF>GIFLITE -9 * \CIS
C:\GIF>GIFLITE -h * \CIS
USING GIFLITE 11
10. For images with detailed texture, you may not want to compress
it with GIFLITE but yet you want to insert the GIFLITE header
to the picture such that GIFLITE will not compress it. You can
use the -m0 option to tell GIFLITE not to compress it but
insert the GIFLITE header.
C:\GIF>GIFLITE -m0 TEXTURE.GIF
11. To avoid compressing already compressed pictures, you can use
the usage log file GIFLITE.USE as the exclude list file.
C:\GIF>GIFLITE -@GIFLITE.USE *
12. If you are compressing a large volume of GIF files, the
process may continue for several hours. It would be better to
perform the compression overnight. Fortunately, it is a one-
time process, once you have the files compressed, it will save
the disk space permanently.
IMAGES THAT SHOULD NOT BE COMPRESSED 12
IMAGES THAT SHOULD NOT BE COMPRESSED
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GIFLITE can compress most GIF files. However, not all GIF
files can be compressed, they are:
. Black and white 2 colors images
. 16 or less colors images
. Dither images
Hand drawn images or images with detail texture may produce
poor result with the default maximum compression. For these
images, either method 2 (-m2) or method 3 (-m3) should be used
to compress the image.
Although the GIFLITE header is encoded in GIF89a format, most
popular GIF87a decoders will ignore the header and they
should, according to the GIF87a standard. If your decoder does
not conform fully to the GIF87a standard, for example Graphic
Workshop, you should not compress the files or you should use
the -h option in the registered version to avoid inserting the
GIFLITE header.
Some BBSs, such as CompuServe, have a strict policy with the
GIF files. Then you should compress the GIF file with the -9
option which replace the GIF87a header with GIF89a header OR
with the -h option which skip inserting the GIFLITE header.
Note: CompuServe Graphics Forum accepts GIFLITE processed GIF
files ONLY IF
1. The GIF file is compressed with the -9 option, or
2. The GIF file is compressed with the -h option.
Normally, GIFLITE will attempt to display the image before
compressing the GIF files. If the images are not displayed
correctly due to incompatible video chip set, the files will
not be compressed correctly. In this case, you should use the
-t option to force GIFLITE not to use graphic mode and
compress in text mode only.
VENDOR.DOC
GIFLITE v1.51 White River Software Registration $ 20.00
GRAPHICS APRIL92 GIF GIF87A GIF89A DECODER ENCODER COMPRESSOR
FILES: giflt151.zip
Update
GIFLITE is an easy to use GIF file compression program. It
compresses the GIF files so that they will require much less
disk space yet still preserve the same quality and resolution.
With GIFLITE, high quality digitized GIF images can be further
compressed by an average of 15% to 35% depending on the
complexity of the images. What makes GIFLITE special is that
the resulting GIF file are almost identical to the original
file. Human eyes can hardly tell them apart.
GIFLITE conforms to both GIF87a and GIF89a standards. All non-
image information is preserved in the resulting GIF files. The
compressed images can be read by standard GIF decoders, such
as VPIC v4+ and CSHOW v8.3+.
Using GIFLITE is much like using the other file compressors.
If you have used any file compressor, you will find yourself
already familiar with the command structure and options.
Hardware Requirements : IBM PC, PC-compatible or MS-DOS computer
400k RAM
Other Requirements : DOS 2.2 or higher.
GL_FRONT.DOC
GIFLITE Front-End
GL_FRONT is a front-end GIF file scanning program intended for use
with Tsung Hu's GIFLITE GIF compression program. It will do a quick
scan of all the GIFs in a specified directory and determine which of
them do not contain the GIFLITE signature. The names of these GIFs
are written to a file that can be passed to GIFLITE.
GIFLITE is a great program and I use it all the time. It has saved
me several hundred megabytes (not to mention close to $1000 worth) of
disk space. GIFLITE does seem to have one small shortcoming though.
It really doesn't handle directories with hundreds of GIFs very well.
As a programmer I can sympathize with Tsung Hu's plight in writing a
program that must deal with hundreds of thousands of bytes of GIF data
and still must be able to maintain potentially infinite lists of
files.
GL_FRONT has a big advantage in dealing with the file lists since
that's all it does. If you have hundreds of GIFs that need to be run
through GIFLITE, you can use the GIFLITE batch feature of GL_FRONT to
avoid some of the file handling shortcomings of GIFLITE. If you have
a directory with hundreds of GIFs, most of which have already been
processed by GIFLITE and contain the GIFLITE signature, then GL_FRONT
can give you the ability to quickly scan the directory and create a
list of just those GIFs that still need to be compressed. This list
of files can then be passed to GIFLITE. If you run a BBS, you can
easily set up an event to scan all the GIFs in your upload directory
and run GIFLITE on those that need it.
GL_FRONT accepts several parameters. All of the parameters can be
either upper or lower case and can be preceded by either a dash (-) or
a forward slash (/). You can specify the name of the output file
with the -O parameter (e.g. -Ogiflist.out). The name of the output
file can be a qualified path/file name. If this parameter is omitted,
GL_FRONT will use the default of GIFLITE.LST in the current directory.
GL_FRONT can be used to generate a batch file that will run GIFLITE
separately for each of the files found that do not contain the
GIFLITE signature. This file will be of the form
GIFLITE <parameters> <filename>
This will be repeated for each of the non-GIFLITE'd files found.
This feature is enabled with the -G parameter. GL_FRONT expects
that you will be passing some parameters to GIFLITE, so you MUST
immediately follow the -G with a parameter string ENCLOSED IN
QUOTES. (e.g. GL_FRONT -G"-9 -t") If you normally use the
GIFLITE defaults just put a space in between the quotes (e.g.
GL_FRONT -G" "). This option can be combined with the -O
option above to generate a .BAT file that can be run immediately
after running GL_FRONT. (e.g. GL_FRONT -Oliten.bat -G"-9 -t")
GL_FRONT also provides for running other programs from a batch file
in the same manner as described above for the -G option. With the
-B option you have to specify both the command name and any parameters
that need to be associated with it (e.g. GL_FRONT -B"giflite -9").
Again, the parameters to the -B option MUST be enclosed in quotes.
GL_FRONT also allows the specification of the directory path to be
searched for GIFs. To specify more than one directory path just
separate them with spaces. You can specify as many as will fit on
the command line. This parameter is NOT preceded by a special
designator like the others mentioned above. If no directory path
is specified, the current directory is used. To specify the
current directory in addition to other directories, list the
current directory as . or .\ on the command line.
In somewhat condensed form, here's the precise command format:
GL_FRONT [options] [path | [path]]
The possible values for [options] are:
[-Ooutfile] - This specifies the output file.
[-G"<GIFLite Parms>"] - This indicates that GL_FRONT should
create a batch file that will run GIFLITE on each of the
files tagged by GL_FRONT. Parameters to GIFLITE must be
enclosed in quotes. Even if no GIFLITE parameters are
specified, the quotes MUST be present.
[-B"<batch cmd>"] - This indicates that GL_FRONT should
create a batch file that will run the specified command
on each of the files tagged by GL_FRONT. The name of
the command and any parameters associated with it must
be enclosed in quotes.
The -G and -B options are mutually exclusive.
GL_FRONT will print some status info to the screen as it's doing
its job. This is pretty self-explanatory.
Please note that GL_FRONT does it's thing by looking for the GIFLITE
signature in the GIF file. This means any GIF processed by GIFLITE
using the -f or -h parameters will show up as not having been processed.
Reprocessing the GIF will not cause any problems other than wasting
time and computing resources.
Legal Stuff
Graphics Interchange Fromat and GIF are copyrighted by CompuServe
and H&R Block Company.
GIFLITE is copyrighted by Tsung Hu.
GL_FRONT is copyrighted by Jay Heyl.
License
GL_FRONT is copyrighted by the author, Jay Heyl, but no fee is charged
or requested for its use in a non-commercial environment. You are
free to copy and distribute GL_FRONT as long as the program remains
unchanged and this .DOC file accompanies it. Non-profit organizations
as well as commercial, for-profit distributors of freeware,
shareware, and public domain software may make copies and distribute
GL_FRONT. These organizations may charge a small fee, not to exceed
$6 US, to cover the costs of media and postage.
Subscription Bulletin Board Systems may post GL_FRONT for download as
long as there is no charge directly associated with the download of
GL_FRONT.
If you find a commercial use for GL_FRONT, contact the author at the
BBS or P.O. Box listed below and we'll talk.
Disclaimer
GL_FRONT is provided AS IS without any warranty, expressed or implied,
including, but not limited to, fitness for any purpose. Use of
GL_FRONT, and the consequences thereof, are entirely your risk. In no
event will the author, Jay Heyl, be liable for any damages whatsoever
resulting from the use of GL_FRONT.
If you have questions, comments, or suggestions concerning GL_FRONT, you
may contact Jay Heyl at The Cookie Jar BBS, 714-997-0350. The latest
version of GL_FRONT will always be available there. If you don't have
a modem (then where'd you get all those GIFs?) or don't want to pay for
the phone call, you can write me at P.O. Box 2221, Orange, CA 92669.
Revision History
Version 1.0 09/15/91 - Initial release.
Version 1.01 09/20/91 - Added -G and -B parameters.
Version 1.10 03/03/92 - Recompiled with BC++ 3.0. No added
functionality.
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CDROM TXT 3972 6-24-92 1:25p
SHAREMAG TXT 1837 1-21-92 6:11a
PCSIG TXT 2335 1-21-92 6:09a
GO EXE 26022 1-10-92 12:14p
SIGORDER TXT 3332 6-25-92 2:28p
GIFLITE ZIP 52551 10-09-92 2:01p
GO-STRT DAT 548 2-11-92 2:15p
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GLFRNT11 ZIP 15314 3-03-92 6:35p
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