Premiere - Best view 1.0: A program with which you can view text, graphic and font files, as well as files in ZX-ASM 3.0 assembler format.

ZX Format #08
BestView 1.0          
                               
music by IRONMAN               
(C) Ivan Roshchin, Moscow.         
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 1. What is this?             
                               
 BestView  - a program with which
You can view "with elevated
convenience" text, graphic and
font files, as well as files in the format
ZX ASM 3.0 assembler (on which it and
was written).                          
 Minimum configuration: 128K, TR-DOS
version 5.03.                             
                               
 2. Selecting a file to view  
                               
 R - reread the disk directory. Actually,
BestView monitors disk changes automatically
cleanly, so perhaps you will never
you don't have to use this key
neck.QAOP,SXOP,CURSOR,TR.V,INV.V - move
cursor position. If within a second the
the litter did not move, in the right window you can
see the contents of the file it is on
indicates.                               
 ENTER - view the selected file.      
                               
 3. View a text file  
                               
 Any file is considered a text file
like 'C' or 'W' if it's not a picture,
not a font and not an assembly file. Strings
may end with code 13 or 13.10.
If the file is longer than 30462 bytes, download
first 30462 bytes.  Lines longer than 64
characters will be cut off.  Total number
lines should not exceed #4000 - the rest
the new ones will simply not be shown.            
QAOP,SXOP,CURSOR,TR.V,INV.V - move
reading the text.  Naturally, scrolling
"fits into the interruption."             
 ENTER,SPACE,EDIT,E  - exit this re-
bench press4. View file in format   
     ZX ASM Z.0 assembler     
                               
 Such a file is considered to be any file of the type
'C' with load address 35151. Control
- as when viewing regular text
file.  When downloaded, the file is converted to
text format, which may take some time
second time (several seconds), while
the corresponding inscription is displayed.       
                               
 5. View picture          
                               
 A picture is considered to be a file of type 'C', length-
noah 6912 bytes.  Press any key
stops watching.                     
                               
 6. View font            
                               
 A font is considered to be a file of type 'C' length
768 bytes.  It just appears on the right
window.                                    
                               
 7. Screen saver               
                               
 If you do not press for a minutekeys - you will see a beautiful effect. I'm not
pehec it on the Spectrum from PC (there is one
Screen saver in Dos Navigator -
'iris.ss').                              
                               
 8. TR-DOS error handling  
                               
 BestView ignores all read errors from
disk, however, it signals
error using a short-term change
change the color of the border.  For such a program
this is a completely acceptable option.           
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