IVIEW is a Freeware DOS viewer for Ralf Brown's Interrupt List.

The program file is IVIEW.EXE. Version 1.01 is 1798 bytes long. It requires a
386 and DOS 3.0 or later.

There is an, optional, configuration file called IVIEW.INI. With the INI file
you can customise the data file name and location, the video mode and the
printer supported. A basic INI file is provided.

IVIEW works with Ralf's original data file INTERRUP.LST. Ralf doesn't directly
supply INTERRUP.LST but he does supply a batch file COMBINE.BAT to build it
from the files he does distribute. To try out the basic functions of IVIEW,
copy it to a directory on the computer's PATH and then run it from the
directory which includes the INTERRUP.LST file. The following keys work:

UP ARROW Scroll up a line

PAGE UP Scroll up a page
+ Scroll up a topic
DOWN ARROW Scroll down a line
PAGE DOWN Scroll down a page
- Scroll down a topic
HOME Move to first topic
END Move to last topic
F Find first occurence of ...
N Fint next occurence
P Print current topic
space Toggle viewing mode
ESC Exit viewer

The two viewing modes are FULL and HEADINGS ONLY. The FULL mode displays the
full contents of INTERRUP.LST. The HEADINGS ONLY mode displays topic headings
only, prefixed where appropriate by the associated category, INT, AH and AL.

The active line is the top line. Toggling from HEADING to FULL expands the
topic in the top line of the HEADING screen. Toggling from FULL to HEADING
reduces to the topic encompassing the top line of the FULL screen. Printing
prints the topic encompassing the top line of whichever screen is in view.

In the FIND dialogue:

1 The search for alpha characters is case-insensitive

2 The character ? represents a wild character i.e. it matches anything

3 A space matches any white space, i.e. any string of spaces, horizontal
tabs, line feeds or carriage returns.

In the FIND and NEXT processes:

1 A beep from the computer means "not found"

2 The search is of the FULL file. The only relevance of this is that the
first 11 columns of the HEADINGS ONLY screen are derived by IVIEW. So if
 you want data on INT 10 with AH=10, AL=12 find -101012 not -10 10 12.

3 The search is topic-to-topic, i.e. when the item is found in a topic the
next find is from the end of that topic.

The INI file must have the same name as the viewer. It may be located in the
same directory as the EXE file or in the current directory. An INI file in the
current directory takes precedence of the one in the EXE file's directory, so
you can have a basic INI file with the EXE file and then any number of INI
files which are customised to the work carried out in the individual
directories in which you use IVIEW.

The INI file must be a TEXT file of lines with the following structure:

<Item Identity Word>=[<parameters>]

The Item Identity Word is predefined and must appear as below. The optional
parameters are customisable. Currently defined items are:

DataFile=<the name and location of Ralf's data file, case-insensitive>

VideoMode=<the hexadecimal text video mode, case-insensitive>

PrintInit=<a string of hexadecimal bytes to send before a print,

case-insensitive, separated by any non-hex characters>

PrintReset=<a string of hexadecimal bytes to send after a print,

case-insensitive, separated by any non-hex characters>

As an example, the following is the INI file for my computer. It contains an

ATI video card where mode 33 selects 132x44 text display. It is connected to
an HP 4L printer. The Init string includes PCL5 escape sequences to reset the
printer, select 12 characters-per-inch and 8 lines-per-inch. The Reset string
consists of a form-feed character to eject the last page of the print and the
printer reset sequence.

DataFile=c:\ralf\interrup.lst
VideoMode=33
PrintInit=1b,45,1b,28,73,31,32,48,1b,26,6c,38,44
PrintReset=c,1b,45

If you don't know your EGA or VGA video codes but would like to see more than
25 lines, try VideoMode=ffff.

Without the INI file the data file is assumed to be INTERRUP.LST and it is
assumed to be in the current directory.

IVIEW was written as an exercise in the art of tight coding. Comments, be

they brickbats or bouquets, to John Harry Adams at adams@ds5200.gradyn.co.uk
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