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                          Mon  02-28-1994  14:25:17

     Actually this should have been named. "Mea -NO- Culpa text" but DOS
     doesn't allow such long names.

     This short text file is part of the file set of:

     1.   PICSAV.EXE          (executable file)
     2.   PICSAV.BAS          (source file of PICSAV.EXE)
     3.   LOADED.PCX          (one of my weird *.PCX files)
     4.   WHAT_ME.PCX         (take a guess...)
     5.   MEACULPA.COM        (MEACULPA.TXT made into a *.COM file)
     6.   README.BAT          (loads MEACULPA.COM for the faint of heart..)

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     I recently uploaded a really, really... -neat- short and simple
     program that allows you to use the FreeWare program PICEM.EXE to
     load graphic files into plain ole vanilla QuickBASIC 4.5.

     But it wasn't (apparently) good enough . Got a note that a
     "someone" wanted to -see- the -real- BLOAD and BSAVE program that
     you could use with QuickBASIC 4.5. This "person" didn't believe me
     that my "Simple Simon" program was "better" and sort of implied
     (actually said so out loud) that the reason I didn't use the
     program was:

                   THAT I didn't UNDERSTAND IT and...

                       It was too SMART for me!!!

     Well... I guess he was half-right. Yes, the original program as
     outlined in the Microsoft Knowledge Base article (BCPICSAV) -is-
     very smart and very complicated. But the reason I didn't clean it
     up and upload it was that it made BSAVEd files that totaled many
     more bytes that what my tiny program in PICSEE.EXE did. But as I
     went over PICSAV.BAS, I realized it was a -great- tutorial on how
     to save graphic files. So... here it is; you decide if my original
     program in the file set PICSEE.EXE is not simpler and easier to use
     and... uses less file storage.

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     Note bene:

     You -must- have PICEM.EXE in the same directory as PICSAV.EXE and
     PICSAV.BAS or you will save a black screen and be disappointed. My
     file set PICSEE.EXE contains PICEM.EXE (see how sneaky I am?) and I
     didn't put it in here because it is about 50K.

     John De Palma on CompuServe 76076,571