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        | ASCR - Russian characters on your PC monitor |
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                (C)Copyright A.Kogan, 1989-1991



                       General description
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ASCR is a resident program, which provides displaying of Russian
letters on your  PC  monitor.  It  works  in  any  videomode  on
EGA(VGA) and in graphics modes on CGA.

ASCR does NOT provide entering Russian characters from keyboard.
Any keyboard driver (such as KEYUSSR, RUSLAT and so on)  may  be
used with ASCR.

ASCR   program   accepts   no  parameters.  If  you  adapter  is
EGA-compatible or current videomode is graphics  mode  you  will
get a message in Russian from ASCR just after it's starting.

ASCR must be started only once. It is recommended to place it to
AUTOEXEC.BAT  file,  if you are permanently working with Russian
letters.



                    Notes for civilized users
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To register this program and to receive the  succeeding  versions
of  it  send  $10  and  your  E-mail  address  (if  any)  to the
following.

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Andrew Vakhutinsky
PhD mailbox #11
College of Business & Management
University of Maryland
Colege Park, MD20742
USA
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                       A P P E N D I X
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                   Notes for advanced users.

1,2 or 3 Russian fonts became resident after program start.  The
number of fonts depends on display adapter in that way:

1-font case: EGA-compatible card not found.
2-font case: EGA-compatible card found  and  VGA-compatible  not
             found and current font height is not 16 scanlines.
3-font case: VGA-compatible card found or current font height is
             16 scanlines.

As  a  result,  driver  may have those parameters, depending the
case which take place:

                            1 font     2 fonts    3 fonts
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Font(s) height (scanlines)     8        8, 14     8,14,16
Resident part size            2K         6K         10K
Working videomodes            4-6        all        all
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The conclusion is that if your adapter  uses  font  of  16-lines
height  and  is  not  VGA-compatible,  start  ASCR  when current
display font is of 16 scanlines.

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Andrey Kogan
P.O.Box 439, Moscow 132060, USSR

E-mail: AVAKHUTI@UMDACC.BITNET
        kogan@stack.fian.msk.su