Anyone know of a dos tool which will convert a text
from one 80 col mode to a pair of 40s?
so that you can display screens with text on them that look
like this:
left page right page
xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx
which would look a lot like an open book with shorter
lines which folks are used to reading rather than the
80 column ones we see in HTML all the time.
I think I could convert the etext to 43 line double
40 column text, (in text mode) which will display
more consistenly on any PC with an EGA or VGA.
NASM has the ability to convert source code into
binary executables in both DOS and LINUX, and the
windoz users could use it in a dos shell. Therefore,
I want to produce the text as binary attribute/byte
pages. The color from the rom bios is more reliable
than what I saw in HTML, driven in gui modes.
I did find '2col.exe'... but it's pretty obsolete,
designed for dox matrix b/w printers, and I dont think
it can handle a .bin file source.
So far, I can see how I might could use a .bat file to
chop the ascii original into two column binary pages,
but like to know if it's already been done.
The other etext composer/readers I've found are either
proprietary, and/or lack the two column mode, and often dont
have any way to put in a 'bookmark' so you can resume
reading later where you left off. They dont let me tailor
the color attributes either.
uncopywritten- do what you will with it.
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