




                                                  UTORAPH V1.0  AGE 1

        
                                 UTORAPH V1.0
        
             ELCOME TO UTORAPH, 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 UTORAPH 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 .
        
             UTORAPH 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 UTORAPH CAN'T FIND ANY
        FILES THAT IT RECOGNIZES ON THE DISK, IT WILL ASK FOR ANOTHER
        DISK BEFORE ALLOWING YOU TO PROCEED.
        
             NCE UTORAPH 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.  UTORAPH 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 UTORAPH
        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












                                                  UTORAPH 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.
        












                                                  UTORAPH 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.
        
        












                                                  UTORAPH 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












                                                  UTORAPH 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
        
             UTORAPH 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 REEARE, 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












                                                  UTORAPH 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!
         
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