Mail Archives: opendos/2003/11/10/16:17:21
"Arkady V.Belousov" wrote:
> I myself prefer not deal with plain executables downloading, I prefer
> download archives. And I prefer to unpack into directories, which I want.
> Other peoples may heva other preferences.
Thanx, that is one aspect to nail down.
I can send ANZI.ZIP, which is just the executables and the batch which
calls
them. I just found a reformatting tool which is not yet tried, but could
add that, so that anyone could take any ascii text, and the ANZI tool
set could take that input, convert it into the 39char format, and then
display it on the 50x80 vga. Or- offer a variation for those of limited
vision, which uses the 25x40 screen. I dunno how much demand there would
be for that. I've considered trying to make a 43x132 version that would
look much more like the facing pages of a real book, but I dunno if all
the variation in video cards would make that feasible. Any bets?
I can send NEWOMEN.zip, which is a sample 300 page novel, designed in
some ways to take advantage of the presentation format. I make no claims
as to the literary merit, and if anyone has suggestions for insertion,
deletion, and/or replacement, I'll try to be accomodating. In any case,
anyone, who thinks they can do better with it can have a go. It is
intended more like a folk tale, without author ownership, subject to
modification as time goes on to meet the needs of the times. Since it is
*digital*, there is no reason to consider it *fixed* like a printed book
edition, any more than any other kind of software.
I can send NEWOMEN.EXE, for win 9x users who dont know the difference
between a folder and a dos directory, which makes a copy of NWM.BAT in
the windows directory so that a GUI user can cope with it.
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