README for tools
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mkhelp, Copyright (c) 2007 Oleg O. Chukaev
uclpack, Copyright (c) 1996-2004 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer

All these programs distributed under the terms of the GNU General
Public License. See the file COPYING for details.


mkhelp
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This program creates binary image of video page from input file.
Input file is a text file that contains 25 lines, number of columns
in each line specified as 3rd argument of mkhelp. Output file
contains pairs char/attribute. Attributes defined by special symbols
that can be inserted in the lines of input file:
`<' -- use COL_FRAME
`(' -- use COL_BOLD
`[' -- use COL_ITALIC
`{' -- use COL_KEY
`>', `)', `]', `}' -- use COL_TEXT again.
mkhelp uses COL_TEXT for text, that not enclosed in pairs of
these symbols. You can edit mkhelp.h to redefine colors.
Use `\' to enter these special characters. For example:
\< -- left angle bracket, \] -- right bracket, \\ -- backslash,
\0 -- left arrow, \1 -- right arrow.
Output file must have size 4000 bytes for screen 80x25.


uclpack
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This program used to compress binary image of video memory. It was
patched because decompressor do not understand header and other
such things in compressed data. If you want to rebuild uclpack you
need sources of UCL data compression library version 1.03, C
compiler (I tested DJGPP 2.03 and Open Watcom C 1.5) and patch (I
used GNU patch 2.5.4). Change directory to EXAMPLES, apply patch
(uclpack.dif) with command `patch -i PATH\TO\uclpack.dif', CD
to .., and rebuild UCL with command b\dos32\wc.bat (or dj2.bat,
see b\00readme.txt for details).


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