All these commands are German (there are not even English aliases), so a German user is not confused by technical terms in a foreign language. There are commands to indent the text, specify a default background and text color, add colored header and footer lines, enable a percentage progress indicator, a rem command for comments, and even commands to change the RGB values of the 16 default text mode colors. The text file can start with a block of INI-like settings like Zeilen=28 to increase the default number of lines from 25 to 28. The later goal is met with a mixture of formatting commands that resemble INI settings, batch programming and ANSI escape sequences. And I wanted all configuration embedded in the text file itself, while still being readable in regular text viewers. I had two main features in mind when I started this little project: Being able to show more than 25 lines on a single screen (but less than the highly compressed 50 lines some programs offered as the only option). TView is a "text viewer" I wrote in 1995 for manuals and digital letters I was giving to friends and mail contacts on floppy disks. ← Back to the index of my DOS archive TView (1995)
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