ICNView 1.0 (June 17, 1994)
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                              Copyright © 1994
                            All Rights Reserved
                             by Michael Nelson

	ICNView is a little program used for viewing the RIP ICN files from
a CLI or directory utility. If you don't have any ICN files or even know
what RIP is then chances are you'll find this program of little use. I'll
quickly explain RIP in case you haven't heard of it before.

               RIP is an acronym for Remote Imaging Protocol, this
       allows TERMINAL programs to call up a BBS and get HIRES
       graphics and other neat things displayed on screen. RIP ICoN's
       are just one small part of RIP, with which the sysop of a bbs
       can write a script (RIPscrip) to call up the ICN off of the
       users harddrive and stamp it onscreen (for show or as an
       interactive button). If you'd like to find out more about RIP
       give my bbs a call at 1-(519)-542-6788 (v.32bis) and check out
       the various RIP programs I wrote called RIPGRAF, which is used for
       creating RIPscrip files, and RIPcomm, used for calling up BBS which
       support RIP (like my BBS).

Usage
~~~~~
        ICNView works from the CLI... and will work in a properly configured
directory utility (see below for instructions). It can be used to display
a single ICN file using it like this;

        1.Ram Disk:> run icnview boing2.icn

or display several ICN files one at a time using like this;

        1.Ram Disk:> run icnview boing2.icn visa.icn ufo.icn

as well you can use Amigados file name patterns and wildcards like so;

        1.Ram Disk:> run icnview DH0:these/#?.icn DH0:those/#?.icn

The ICN's will be displayed centered on a custom screen (which opens using
the default monitor type on your system). You can click the mouse button(s)
or press any key to move from one ICN to the next (if you used multiple
files or wildcards in the command line) and will exit when you hit ESCAPE or
there are no more ICN's to be displayed.


Configuring a directory utility (DU).
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	One caveat of this program (and one that can't be fixed) is that
the RIP ICN's have no identifying bits within them, as they are basically
just raw bitmaps. The filename extension is your only clue. This prevents
the DU from determining what the file is by searching through the first
few bytes of an ICN file and launching ICNView.


Distribution
~~~~~~~~~~~~
        This program is freeware. It is not public domain, and it is
copyrighted. It may not be included or used with any commercial program
without my consent. It may be included with any library disk or CD with
or without my knowledge as long as no unreasonable fee is asked.


Acknowledgements
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
	Thanks to Sean Clarke for emailing me with this idea today...
and in just a few hours later I had a finished program. (The bill is in the
mail Sean... just kidding <G>). Sean was one of the first few people to
register my RIPGRAF program, if not for that I probably would've told him
to p*ss off and program it himself. ;-)

	Thanks also go (I guess) to Telegrafix for coming up with this funky
protocol in the first place... they got MUCH better things in store but we
have to wait. RIP 2.0 will support higher resolutions and with more than
16 colors... I've seen a screen cap of RIPTERM running on a 640*480 SVGA
screen with 256 colors displaying a 1/4 screen JPEG image. Neat.

Contacting the author
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Email:  M.NELSON34@GENIE.GEIS.COM
BBS:    1(519)542-6788   (v32bis)

Mail:
        76 Olympus Ct #59
        Sarnia, Ontario
        CANADA  N7S 4S7

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