TSRMAKER v1.1

                                  by

                            Jack A. Orman 
                               Box 858
                          Southaven, MS 38671



        What is TSRMAKER?
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        This program will create an executable  .COM  file  out  of  a
        text  file  of  25  lines  of  80  characters  each. This fast
        operating  program  when run will remain resident in memory to
        be popped up by hitting  the  selected  keys.  It  should  not
        cause any interference with other memory resident programs.


        Features!
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        *  Full Screen text editor!

        *  TSRMAKER  will  read  the  text  out of a .COM file that it
           has created! No need to look for  the  original  text  just
           to modify the document.

        *  Use any word processor that can  save  a  file  as straight
           ascii  text  to make the display that you want to turn into
           a  .COM  program.  Then  use  TSRMAKER  to  turn  the  file
           into a memory resident screen display!

        *  Full selection of colors to  be  used  when  the  .COM file
           displays the text.

        *  Select the keys to activate from among several choices.

        *  Enter a message to be displayed when the program is loaded.

        *  Have several screens resident in memory at once by using
           different 'hot keys' to call up each.

        *  On-line help.

        *  Each resident program only uses about 2.3k of memory.

 
        How to use TSRMAKER.
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        Using  a  word  processor,  write  the screen of text that you
        would like to be displayed. There can only be 25 lines in  the
        file and each line may be a maximum of 80 characters. Save the
        text in ascii format and exit. 

        TSRMAKER <enter>, will put the program in operation. Select F2
        from the opening screen and you will be prompted for the  name
        of  the  text  file  to  read. TSRMAKER will read the text and
        display it so that it may be checked out before the .COM  file
        is created. 

        Assumming  that  the  file is ready to use, hit the F6 key and
        make a choice of colors to be used in the .COM  file  display.
        The  text  display  will  then  be  set to the colors you have
        chosen so that you may review the choices and modify  if  they
        are not what you want.

        Next, use the F7 key to call up a menu to select the 'hotkey'.
        When  that  is  complete, hit F8 and enter the message  to  be
        displayed when the program loads.

        To  create  the  .COM program, hit F3 and you will be prompted
        for a name to use for the  text  display  program.  The  drive
        letter is optional but the extention MUST be .COM! The default
        drive and directory will be used if one is not specified.

        Example:  If  I  want  to create a file called HELP on my hard
                 drive, I would enter 'C:HELP.COM' as  the filename to
                 use. If I want to write this file to my hard drive in
                 the UTIL directory, I would enter 'C:\UTIL\HELP.COM'

        TSRMAKER's  full-screen  editor  may  be used to write text or
        modify a file that has been read into the program's buffer. It
        operates  like  a  basic  word  processor  with no frills. The
        screen changes color and a block cursor  appears  to  indicate
        that the editor is active. Since there is no on-screen display
        to  show the state of INS or DEL the screen colors will change
        according to the mode you are in. White text is INS and yellow
        text  indicates  the  Overwrite  mode.  F10  is  used  to exit
        from the editor routines. The cursor arrow keys  are  used  to
        move around the screen and PgUp, PgDn,  Home  and END are used
        to  move  to  extremes  of  the  display. Tab will advance the
        cursor 10 spaces. 
        
        The .COM program that is created by this program  operates  by
        resetting  the  interrupt  9  vector  and scans for the proper
        keystokes that will cause the resident program to be run. When
        the right  key  combination  is  hit  (Alt-RightShift  is  the
        default  selection),  the  program  sets  the active page to 4
        and writes the resident text to the screen in the blink of  an
        eye!   When  ESCAPE  is  hit  to  exit,  the  active  page  is
        restored to whatever it was upon entry. The pop-up  will  only
        operate  if  the  video  display  is in modes 2 or 3 which are
        25x80 text displays. Changing modes clears  the  video  memory
        but  doesn't  affect the TSR because it writes the text to the
        screen each time that it is popped up.
        
        A sample template is included to show the basic design of  the
        pop-up screen. It was created with  a  word-processor,  edited
        with  TSRmaker  and  used  to  make  the  MIDIpop  and MIDIhex
        programs. Feel free to incorporate it into your pop-ups!

        TSRMAKER  is  copyrighted  and for private, non-commercial use
        only! If you use this  program,  please  make  a  donation  of
        $15 to the author at the above address.