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INTRODUCTION ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GD View (GDV) is an object-oriented viewer which lets you look at the contents of files (and other objects) while supporting a lot of formats. See section 3 for a list of all supported file types. A lot of file viewers are available in the computer market but GD View is different than most other ones. Most other viewers support just one or possibly a few file types. For example some viewers always display the contents of a file as text but it is not very useful to look at the contents of a picture file as text because they usually do not contain any useful text. Many computer users are forced to have an entire collection of file viewers on their harddisk. They have to guess which viewer to use and how to use it. This can be relatively complicated, especially if you are dealing with unknown data and you do not know the file type. GD View can solve these problems: It attempts to detect the file type automatically and it will then display the file properly. This makes everything much easier for you. Not only that GD View can probably display more graphic, document, database, spreadsheet, animation, text, binary, palette, font, sound, terminal, archive and encoded file formats than any other DOS program, GD View can also display information about files (including the meaning of the file name extention), display information about your computer system, play Audio CDs, display the contents of your base memory, decode UUE, XXE and other encoded files and extract Device Independent (Windows) Bitmaps from binary files. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2. LEGAL ISSUES (IMPORTANT!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- LICENSE AGREEMENT: You MUST understand and accept the license agreement (LICENSE.DOC) **before** you do anything with GD View. [Sorry, I had to write that license agreement to protect myself. There's nothing special about it but you still MUST read it.] GD View is user supported software. You may test this unregistered version for max. 30 days. After that you must either become a registered user or remove GD View from your system. Read REGISTER.TXT for more information. All trademarked names used herein are used only in an editorial fashion with no intention of infringement of the trademark. Although they are not marked in any special way all trademarked names are trademarks of the respective trademark owners. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 3. CONFIGURATION ISSUES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The requirements: -> an IBM PC compatible computer with a 80286 or better CPU (fast '486 or better recommended) -> MS DOS 3.0 (or higher) or a 100% compatible operating system -> about 600 KB free base memory and about 1MB of free EMS or XMS (more EMS or XMS recommended for large directories and some large files) -> a VGA or SVGA graphic card (SVGA recommended), a color monitor -> for sound files: a Sound Blaster 2.0, Sound Blaster Pro or 100% compatible sound card -> for Audio CDs: a CD-ROM drive (MSCDEX must be loaded) -> for CMF files: SBFMDRV.COM must be loaded -> optional: a computer mouse or other pointing device (a Microsoft compatible mouse driver must be loaded) About the operating system: The main target operating system for GD View is MS DOS but clones such as Novell DOS should not cause any problems. It is possible to use GD View with MS Windows, MS Windows 95, MS Windows NT, OS/2 and some other operating systems which can run MS DOS programs but there might be some unexpected results, e.g. when graphic files are displayed or sound files are played. In any case, make sure that enough memory is available for GD View and try to use a full-screen mode if possible!! Recommendations: - Windows 3.1: use full-screen mode (you can create a PIF file to do that) - Windows 95: use full-screen mode (can be selected in the properties dialog box), long file names are displayed but cannot be used when prompted for file names, some functions of the CD Player do not work - Windows NT: no sound support, some functions of the CD Player do not work, long file names can not be used at prompts - OS/2: use full-screen mode About graphic cards: To use the advanced graphic modes of SVGA cards you will need to make your graphic card accessable via the so called VESA BIOS extention, version 1.2 or higher. Most modern graphic cards are shipped with built-in VESA support. For older cards you can use resident programs which make your SVGA card VESA compatible. You should check if there is one on the disks which came with your graphic card. If not then try to find one online or contact the manufacturer of your graphic card. If going into a graphic mode takes too long then use the "Auto-configure VESA graphic modes" selection in GDV SETUP. Note that using a TrueColor SVGA card is definitely recommended because GD View does NOT perform any dithering or any real quantization of graphical images. About sound cards: You will usually have to set some things up before you use GD View to play sound files. To do that you have to run setup and select "Configure sound card". If you own a sound card which is not listed you will have to check the manual of it to see to what it is compatible. Most modern sound cards are compatible to the Sound Blaster Pro. More older ones should at least be compatible to the Sound Blaster 2.x. Most Sound Blaster compatible sound cards are configured to use the base port address 220h and DMA channel 1. Right now, GD View is not able to change the sampling rate of a sound file. That means that you will not hear anything if the sample rate is extremely high or extremely low. SBFMDRV.COM must be loaded if you want to play CMF files. About memory: Try to have at least 580 KB of free base memory before starting GD View. If you do not have enough then your system can become unstable or even crash. You can free more base memory by removing resident programs, e.g. by using MemMaker. GD View can become extremely slow if you do not have enough free EMS or XMS memory. The best way to solve most memory problems with GD View is to use an advanced memory manager like QEMM or even better, use the Windows NT command line interface or something similar. About mice: To use your mouse you have to install a Microsoft compatible DOS mouse driver. You can force GD View to use a slow mouse reset or to invert the mouse buttons by editing gdv.cfg appropriately. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4. OVERVIEW: LIST OF THE SUPPORTED FILE TYPES ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- See part 6 for a detailed description of every file format. * GRAPHICAL IMAGES 1st Publisher ART Advanced Art Studio Alias PIX / Alias Mask / Vivid IMG Art Director Artist 64 Atari Image Manager (AIM) Autodesk Animator Pro CEL Blazing Paddles CBM hi-res format CDU Paint CMU wm raster ColoRIX Corel Draw Craig Bruce's BM format DCX Degas / Degas Elite uncompressed Degas Elite compressed Device Independent Bitmap (DIB/BMP) Doodle (Atari ST) Draw256 Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) - TIFF preview Face FLI (C64) GEM Image Giffer QDV Girls & Poker for Windows data Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) Grasp Library (GL) Halo CUT Handy Scanner 2000 HIPS HRZ HSI Raw ILBM (IFF) IM J6I JPEG/JFIF Koala Painter MacPaint MCUREDIT (toolbox) MS Paint MS Windows cursor MS Windows icon MS Word CAPTURE screen MTV Neochrome OS/2 icon OS/2 pointer PC Paintbrush PCX PCJ PCPAINT / Pictor PIC Photo CD Picture Publisher 4 and 5 PMP Portable Bit/Gray/Pix/Anymap Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Psion Series 3 Bitmap (PIC) QRT RAW / DKB RAW / POV Dump Raw graphical image RGB Intermediate Format RIFF DIB (RDIB) SGI Image format Specem PRG SPECTRUM / VGASPEC SP Spectrum 512 compressed (SPC) Spectrum 512 uncompressed (SPU) Strip BlackJack / Stripoid data Sun Icon Sun RASter TGA TIFF Tiny TZ Strip Poker Vidcom 64 VIS X Bitmap (XBM) X Puzzle XIMG YBM YUV ZX Spectrum Screen ZX Spectrum Snapshot (SNA) * ANIMATIONS FLIC Tempra FLX * BINARY DATA Aiken BCD Binary Coded Decimal (BCD) Binary display Decimal display Excess 3 BCD Hexadecimal display Octal display * TEXT FORMATS (INCL. CHARACTER SETS) 1st Word Adobe Standard text Adobe Symbol text Adobe Zapf Dingbats text AmigaGuide ANSI X3.4-1968 text Apple II text ASCII with Unicode codes ASMO 449 text Atari ATASCII text Atari ST/TT text BALTIC text BS 4730 text BS VIEWDATA text Code Page 037 (EBCDIC - United States) text Code Page 038 (EBCDIC-INT) text Code Page 10000 (Macintosh Roman 10000) text Code Page 10006 (Macintosh Greek 1) text Code Page 10007 (Macintosh Cyrillic) text Code Page 10029 (Macintosh Latin 2) text Code Page 1004 (OS/2 Latin 1) text Code Page 1006 (Urdu - ISO) text Code Page 10079 text Code Page 1008 (Arabic Windows - original) text Code Page 10081 text Code Page 1025 (Cyrillic - EBCDIC) text Code Page 1026 text Code Page 1027 (Japan (Latin) - EBCDIC) text Code Page 1028 (Hebrew - Publishing) text Code Page 1038 (PostScript Symbol Set) text Code Page 1041 (Japan SAA) text Code Page 1043 (Taiwan SAA) text Code Page 1046 (Arabic - EBCDIC) text Code Page 1047 text Code Page 1051 (HP Roman 8) text Code Page 1088 (Korea KS) text Code Page 1089 (Arabic - ISO 8859-6) text Code Page 1092 (PC Symbols) text Code Page 1097 (Farsi - EBCDIC) text Code Page 1098 (Farsi) text Code Page 1112 (Baltic - EBCDIC) text Code Page 1114 (Taiwan Big-5) text Code Page 1115 (China GB) text Code Page 1116 (Estonia) text Code Page 1117 (Latvia) text Code Page 1118 (Lithuania) text Code Page 1119 (Lithusanian and Russian) text Code Page 1122 (Estonia - EBCDIC) text Code Page 1123 text Code Page 1124 text Code Page 1250 (MS Windows Eastern Europe) text Code Page 1251 (MS Windows Cyrillic) text Code Page 1252 (MS Windows ANSI) text Code Page 1253 (MS Windows Greek) text Code Page 1254 (MS Windows Turkish) text Code Page 1255 text Code Page 1256 text Code Page 1257 text Code Page 1258 (MS Windows Vietnamese) text Code Page 1275 (Apple Latin 1) text Code Page 1276 (Adobe PS Standard Encoding) text Code Page 1277 (Adobe PS ISOLatin1 Encoding) text Code Page 1280 (Apple Greece) text Code Page 1281 (Apple Turkey) text Code Page 1282 (Apple Central European) text Code Page 1283 (Apple Cyrillic) text Code Page 256 text Code Page 259 (Symbols WP - EBCDIC) text Code Page 273 text Code Page 274 text Code Page 275 text Code Page 277 text Code Page 278 text Code Page 280 text Code Page 282 text Code Page 284 text Code Page 285 text Code Page 290 text Code Page 293 (APL - EBCDIC) text Code Page 297 text Code Page 361 (International - Publishing) text Code Page 363 (Symbols - Publishing) text Code Page 367 (G0 - ASCII) text Code Page 382 (Austria, Germany - Publishing) text Code Page 383 (Belgium - Publishing) text Code Page 385 (Canada (French) - Publishing) text Code Page 386 (Denmark, Norway - Publishing) text Code Page 387 (Finland, Sweden - Publishing) text Code Page 388 (France - Publishing) text Code Page 389 (Italy - Publishing) text Code Page 391 (Portugal - Publishing) text Code Page 392 (Spain - Publishing) text Code Page 393 (Latin America - Publishing) text Code Page 394 (United Kingdom - Publishing) text Code Page 395 (United States - Publishing) text Code Page 420 text Code Page 423 text Code Page 424 text Code Page 437 (USA) text Code Page 500 (EBCDIC) text Code Page 737 (Greek II or IBM Greek) text Code Page 775 ("BaltRim") text Code Page 813 (Greece - ISO 8859-7) text Code Page 819 (Latin 1 - ISO 8859-1) text Code Page 829 (Math Symbols - Publishing) text Code Page 833 (Korea - EBCDIC) text Code Page 836 (China - EBCDIC) text Code Page 838 (Thai - EBCDIC) text Code Page 850 (Latin I - multilingual) text Code Page 851 text Code Page 852 (Latin II - slavic) text Code Page 853 (Multilingual Latin 3) text Code Page 855 (Cyrillic I) text Code Page 856 (Hebrew - old) text Code Page 857 (Turkish) text Code Page 860 (Portuguese) text Code Page 861 (Icelandic) text Code Page 862 text Code Page 863 (French Canadian) text Code Page 864 text Code Page 865 (Nordic) text Code Page 866 (Cyrillic 2 or Russian) text Code Page 868 text Code Page 869 (Greek I or IBM Modern Greek) text Code Page 870 text Code Page 871 text Code Page 874 text Code Page 875 text Code Page 878 (Russia - Internet) text Code Page 880 text Code Page 891 text Code Page 895 (Japan G0 (Latin) - EUC) text Code Page 896 (Japan G2 (Katakana) - EUC) text Code Page 897 (Japan) text Code Page 903 text Code Page 904 text Code Page 907 (APL) text Code Page 909 (APL2 Extended) text Code Page 910 (APL2) text Code Page 912 (Latin 2 - ISO 8859-2) text Code Page 913 (Latin 3 - ISO 8859-3) text Code Page 914 (Latin 4 - ISO 8859-4) text Code Page 915 (Cyrillic - ISO 8859-5) text Code Page 916 (Israel - ISO 8859-8) text Code Page 918 text Code Page 920 (Latin 5 - ISO 8859-9) text Code Page 921 (Baltic) text Code Page 922 (Estonia) text CSA Z243.4-1985-1 text CSA Z243.4-1985-2 text CSA Z243.4-1985-GR text CSN 369103 text CWI text DEC-MCS text DIN 66003 text DS 2089 text EBCDIC text (generic version) EBCDIC-AT-DE text EBCDIC-AT-DE-A text EBCDIC-CA-FR text EBCDIC-DK-NO text EBCDIC-DK-NO-A text EBCDIC-ES text EBCDIC-ES-A text EBCDIC-ES-S text EBCDIC-FI-SE text EBCDIC-FI-SE-A text EBCDIC-FR text EBCDIC-IS-FRISS text EBCDIC-IT text EBCDIC-PT text EBCDIC-UK text EBCDIC-US text ECMA-CYRILLIC text Epson Denmark text Epson England text Epson France text Epson Italy text Epson Japan text Epson Spain text Epson Sweden text Exec MemoMaker GB 1988-80 text GOST 19768-74 text GREEK-CCITT text GREEK7 text GREEK7-OLD text HP 48 text HP-ROMAN8 text Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) INIS text INIS-8 text INIS-CYRILLIC text INVARIANT text ISO 10646 ISO 2033-1983 text ISO 5427 text ISO 5427:1981 text ISO 5428:1980 text ISO 646-ES text ISO 646-ES2 text ISO 646-IT text ISO 646-PT text ISO 646-PT2 text ISO 646.BASIC:1983 text ISO 646.IRV:1983 text ISO 8859-10:1993 text ISO 8859-1:1987 text ISO 8859-2:1987 text ISO 8859-3:1988 text ISO 8859-4:1988 text ISO 8859-5:1988 text ISO 8859-6:1987 text ISO 8859-7:1987 text ISO 8859-8:1988 text ISO 8859-9:1989 text ISO 8859-SUPP text JIS C6220-1969-JP text JIS C6220-1969-RO text JIS C6229-1984-A text JIS C6229-1984-B text JIS C6229-1984-B-ADD text JIS C6229-1984-HAND text JIS C6229-1984-HAND-ADD text JIS C6229-1984-KANA text JUS I.B1. 002 text JUS I.B1.003-MAC text JUS I.B1.003-SERB text KOI-8R text KSC 5636 text LATIN-GREEK text LATIN-GREEK-1 text Lotus Ami / Lotus Ami Pro Magnatype MS Windows "MS LineDraw" font text MS Windows "Symbol" font text MS Windows "Wingdings" font text MS Windows 3.0 ANSI text MS Windows Write (WRI) MS Word for DOS MS Word for Macintosh MS Word for Windows, MS Windows 95/NT WordPad MS Works for DOS word processor MSZ 7795/3 text Multimate, Multimate Advantage Navy DIF NC NC00-10:81 text NEXTSTEP text NF Z 62-010 (1973) text NF Z 62-010 text nroff NS 4551-1 text NS 4551-2 text PC Write Protext Rich-Text Format SAMI text SEN 850200 B text SEN 850200 C text SGML, XML T.61-7BIT text Unicode V1.0 text Unicode V1.0.1 text Unicode V1.1/2.0 text UTF-8 WordPerfect WordStar 2000 WordStar XyWrite * PALETTES 6 bit raw palette 8 bit raw palette * FONTS Commodore 64/128 font Fontedit (Chris Howe) font Letters font Raw BIOS font The Font Editor font The Graphics Engine font ZX Spectrum Big font ZX Spectrum Standard font * SOUNDS 8SVX AVR Creative Music (CMF) Creative Voice (VOC) DEC Audio GTS Sound Sample Headerless Sound Sample (raw) Psion Series 3 Wave RIFF Wave (WAV) Scream Tracker 3/DigiPlayer sample Sounder SoundTool / Wired for Sound Sun/NeXT Audio (AU) Totosampler VoiceMaster * TERMINAL CODES ANSI music ANSI X3.64 data stream (*.ANS) Avatar data stream IBM PC text mode screen image (binary) iCE Color ANSI PC Board color codes text Renegade Pipe Code text The Last Video Interface (LVI) data stream TTY WildCat 3.0+ color code text WWIV color code text * DATABASES/WORKSHEETS dBASE / FoxBase / FoxBase+ dbLite FoxPro, FoxPro for Windows Lotus 1-2-3 (and compatible formats) System Data Format (SDF) * FILE ARCHIVES/COMPRESSED DATA AMG Apple Macintosh resource fork data AR ARC ARJ CBM ARC Crunch Crush Descent .HOG Duke Nukem 3D .GRP DWC Genus Microprogramming VXL gzip (.gz) HA Hyper id software WAD LARC LHarc / LHA / LHice LZEXE compressed EXE MacBinary MAR MDCD MS Cabinet (.CAB) MS Windows clipboard MS Windows resource Novosielski library (LBR) PAK PUTGET Quake PACK Quake WAD2 RAR SAR Squeeze SQueezed files Stuff-It SWAG compressed archive T64 Unix compress (.z) Unix Standard tape archiver (tar) YellowPoint disk set ZIP ZOO * EXECUTABLES/DECODABLE DATA BOO encoded data BTOA Caesar Device Independent Bitmap - Embedded Executables (EXE, COM, BAT, associations) HQX (BinHex) Intel Hex MIME Base64 MIME Quoted Printable ROT 13 UU-Encoded data WordPerfect 7-bit transfer format XX-Encoded data * MISC. TYPES @BASIC Commodore BASIC 1.0 Commodore BASIC 10.0 Commodore BASIC 2.0 w/ Super Extender Commodore BASIC 2.0 Commodore BASIC 3.5 Commodore BASIC 4.0 Expansion for C64 Commodore BASIC 4.0 Commodore BASIC 7.0 File List MS Windows Internet shortcut Program Information File (PIF) QWK Mail MESSAGES.DAT Simon's BASIC Speech BASIC Turtle BASIC URL file (M3U/RAM/etc.) * SPECIAL MODULES Audio CD player Directory viewer (file selector) External viewers (association) External editors (association) File Information (5000+ extentions, descriptions, etc.) System Information ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5. USING GD VIEW ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generally, if you do not understand something in this section then just ask an advanced computer user. Most advanced users will be able to solve your problems in a few minutes. There are several ways to start GD View. The easiest one is probably to simply execute "GDV.EXE". The title screen appears unless disabled (press any key to continue) and then you enter the directory viewer where you can select the files you want to display. Alternatively, you can just specify a file name on the command line, for example: C:\GDV>GDV C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Please refer to your DOS manual for more information on file and path names. For your convenience, there are some additional batch files which make it easier for you to use some special features of GD View. Just run the batch file to begin: You can use CDPLAY.BAT to play audio CDs (a drive letter can be supplied as a command line parameter if more than one CD-ROM drive is installed). You can use FCH.BAT to check files and TEST.BAT to test files. You can retrieve information about your system by calling sysinfo.bat and you can look at your system's base memory by calling memview.bat. If you often look at single files you might want to use v.bat as an alias for gdv.exe because it is much quicker to simply type "v filename". GD View can also call external programs: you can edit files by using ed.bat and execute files by using ex.bat but note that GD View will use external programs to do so (external programs are other programs installed on your harddisk which do not belong to GD View). Once you have started GD View everything is quite self-explaining. You can usually use the cursor keys to navigate and ESC or ALT-X to abort/exit. In most cases you can press F1 to see the online help. The GD Unpacker: The GD View package includes U.EXE. You can use setup to configure GD View to use the GD Unpacker (search for applications and answer yes when you are asked if you want to assign the GD Unpacker to the extentions). After that you can decompress ZIP files simply by pressing space in the GD View directory viewer. Note that GD Unpacker is not a dearchiver so the correct dearchiving programs must be in your path if you want to use this feature. You will need PKZIP (for .zip files), RAR, ARJ, ARC (for .arc and .ark), LHA (for .lzh/.lzs/.lha), extar (for .tar), ZOO, LUE (for .lbr) and Limit (for .lim). All of these programs are available online. Make sure that your copy of the archivers are not too old. If you do not have the right dearchiver then answer no for that particular file type. Integrated archiver support: GD View can display files in some archive types by automatically extracting them. You will need PKUNZIP for .zip files, ARJ for .arj files, RAR for .rar files and gzip for .z/.gz files. Using the viewers: > DIRECTORY/ARCHIVE VIEWER < ------------------------ Up, Down move cursor up/down PgUp, PgDn move cursor one page up/down Home, End move cursor to top/bottom F2 display information about object at cursor position F3, Enter display object at cursor position (or change directory) F4 edit object at cursor position F5 copy object at cursor position to standard file (specify a file name - not a directory name!) F8, Del delete object at cursor position Ctrl-Left go to parent directory ALT-X exit to DOS CTRL-F3 sort by name CTRL-F4 sort by extention CTRL-F6 sort by size CTRL-F7 unsorted ALT-F1 select drive ALT-F2 test object at cursor position ALT-F3 display object at cursor position as text Shift-F3 lets you select a file type to display the object at the cursor position ALT-1 display only file names ALT-2 very detailed report on every object (one object per page) ALT-3 standard directory display (like the DOS DIR command) ALT-4 normal file archive information ALT-5 technical file archive information ALT-6 normal and technical file archive information ALT-J Jump to DOS CTRL-N use different type of file name case changing Tab reload directory > TEXT VIEWER < ----------- Up, Down move up/down PgUp, PgDn move on page up/down +, - move 20 pages up/down Left, Right move 20 columns left/right (, ) move one column left/right Home, End go to top/bottom Ctrl-Left, Ctrl-Right move to begin/end of line Ins, Del move one printed page up/down ALT-L select a line ALT-G select a page ALT-P select a printed page / case-sensitive search \ case-insensitive search Ctrl-L search again ALT-C SELECT CHARACTER SET ALT-H toggle Hex/Dec/Bin/Oct mode ALT-X, ESC exit W toggle line wrap mode O toggle file offset display ALT-1..9, ALT-0 set bookmark 1-10 1..9, 0 go to bookmark 1-10 Tab change tab width # toggle text direction (left-to-right or right-to-left) I toggle isolated CR interpretation (useful for some text files which are intended to be printed) M map 8-bit to 7-bit chars [only possible with 7-bit character sets] E toggle endianness (for 16-bit character sets) N select if character 0 should be treated like a new line character (useful for executables) $ select if the '$' character should be treated like a new line character (useful for some MS DOS .COM files) Z ignore trailing end-of-file markers ALT-D write to file (character set conversion!) ALT-W write to ISO 10646 file > GRAPHICAL IMAGE VIEWER < ---------------------- Enter display next image (only when file selected in directory viewer) Space redraw F2 display image information F3 display palette (not possible with TrueColor images) Up, Dn scroll half a screen up/down Left, Right scroll half a screen left/right PgUp, PgDn scroll one screen up/down Ctrl-Left, Ctrl-Right scroll one screen left/right Home, End go to top/bottom Tab reset brightness, contrast, high intensity filter Shift-Up increase brightness (not possible with TrueColor images) Shift-Down reduce brightness (not possible with TrueColor images) Shift-Right more contrast (not possible with TrueColor images) Shift-Left less contrast (not possible with TrueColor images) +, - control high intensity filter (not possible with TrueColor images) > TERMINAL EMULATOR < ----------------- ALT-X exit ALT-B toggle scroll-back mode Home, End move to top/bottom (in scroll-back mode) Up, Down move up/down (in scroll-back mode) PgUp, PgDn move on page up/down (in scroll-back mode) > SOUND PLAYER < ------------ any key stop playing > ANIMATION PLAYER < ---------------- ALT-X, ESC exit > DATABASE/SPREADSHEET VIEWER < --------------------------- Enter display current field in status line (when you want to see long strings completely) ESC, ALT-X exit Up, Down move up/down Left, Right move left/right PgUp, PgDn move one page up/down Home, End go to first/last field > CD PLAYER < --------- Help is displayed on the screen ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6. THE SUPPORTED FILE FORMATS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- You do not need to read this part. Just use it as a reference section if you want to know something about a specific file type. Remember, that the command line parameters can change from version to version, especially the parameters for the text file formats. - 1ST PUBLISHER ART extention: .art origin/purpose: Desk Top Publishing graphical image format used by 1st Publisher. parameters: -art - 1ST WORD origin/purpose: A document format used by the popular Atari ST word processor 1st Word. compliance: Only plain text is shown. parameters: -1stw - 6 BIT RAW PALETTE extention: .pal, .dat origin/purpose: These files contain 6-bit color palettes. 6-bit color files are usually used on IBM PCs. parameters: -pal6 - 8 BIT RAW PALETTE extention: .pal, .dat origin/purpose: These files contain 8-bit color palettes. compliance: If the palette looks too dark then use the 6-bit palette file type. parameters: -pal - 8SVX extention: .8svx, .8sv, .svx origin/purpose: 8-bit sound sample files in IFF format. parameters: -8svx - @BASIC extention: .prg origin/purpose: @BASIC extends the standard BASIC interpreter of the C64. The C64 stores the source code in a binary format but GDV can display the BASIC source code. parameters: -atba - ADOBE STANDARD TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:17 - ADOBE SYMBOL TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:18 - ADOBE ZAPF DINGBATS TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:19 - ADVANCED ART STUDIO extention: .mpic, .pic, .art origin/purpose: The graphic file format of Advanced Art Studio, a famous painting program for the C64. compliance: Only Advanced Art Studio files are supported. The original Art Studio format is not supported. parameters: -aast - AIKEN BCD origin/purpose: This is a variant of BCD, which can be processed easier by electronic devices. parameters: -text -txtcs:15 - ALIAS PIX / ALIAS MASK / VIVID IMG extention: .alias, .pix, .img, .viv origin/purpose: Alias PIX and Mask files are produced by programs of Alias Research, Inc. Vivid IMG files have the same format. They are produced by the Vivid Ray Tracer (Steven B. Coy), a Shareware ray tracer for MS DOS. parameters: -alia - AMG extention: .amg, .exe origin/purpose: AMG is a file archiver by Milen Georgiev. compliance: Self-extracting files are supported, too! parameters: -amg - AMIGAGUIDE extention: .gui, .guide origin/purpose: A popular hypertext format used on Amigas. compliance: Only standard text elements are shown (unformatted). parameters: -agui - ANSI MUSIC extention: .ans origin/purpose: This is an extention of the MS DOS ANSI.SYS command set which is incompatible to the ANSI X3.64 standard. These Files contain simple music music commands. compliance: The music strings are *IGNORED*. Using the ANSI music mode instead of the standard ANSI X3.64 mode just ensures that no garbage appears on the screen. parameters: -ansm - ANSI X3.4-1968 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as (US-)ASCII, ECMA-6, ISO 646-US, ANSI X3.4-1986 and ISO_646.IRV:1991. ASCII stands for American Standard Code of Information Interchange. origin/purpose: This is the original ASCII character set and it is still VERY popular although it doesn't support non-English characters. The ECMA standardized this character set in April 1965 as ECMA-6. parameters: -text -txtcs:177 - ANSI X3.64 DATA STREAM (*.ANS) extention: .ans name: The format is usually just called ANSI. origin/purpose: This format is used by most Bulletin Board Systems. ANSI Artists use this format, too. Note that the ECMA 48 standard replaces ANSI X3.64 now. compliance: GD View supports all commands used by ANSI.SYS and some of the other ANSI X3.64 commands. The "-x" and "-y" parameters can be used to specify the terminal screen size (for example "-x:80 -y:43" for a 80x43 screen). GDV performs line wraps because many MS DOS ANSI files assume that line wraps are used but according to the standard wraps shouldn't be performed with the cursor movement commands. Use the "-tm_nw" option to disable them. GD View assumes that the ANSI file was designed to be displayed with MS DOS Code Page 437 as a character set. parameters: -x364 - APPLE II TEXT origin/purpose: ASCII character set used on Apple ][ computers (maybe also Apple I). parameters: -text -txtcs:13 - APPLE MACINTOSH RESOURCE FORK DATA extention: .rsr, .rsc origin/purpose: Resource files are used internally by Apple Macintosh programs to store all kinds of data. parameters: -macr - AR extention: .arh, .lzh origin/purpose: AR is a Japanese file archiver by Haruhiko Okumura. compliance: Path names are not shown. AR001 (22 Apr 1990) is not supported. The August 1990 and December 1991 versions are supported. parameters: -lha - ARC extention: .arc, .ark, .exe origin/purpose: ARC (by SEA) used to be a very popular file archiver for MS DOS. ARC files are created by ARC (SEA), PKARC (PKWare), PKPAK (PKWare), ARCA (Wayne Chin & Vernon Buerg), Squash (several authors) and ArcMac (dogStar Software). compliance: RISC OS (Acorn) *.arc files are not compatible to the standard DOS ARC format. parameters: -arc - ARJ extention: .arj, .sdn, .exe, .qwk, .sow origin/purpose: ARJ is a popular file archiver by Robert Jung. compliance: Self-extracting archives created by ARJ or EXARJ 1.1 are supported, too! Interplay uses *.SOW files in ARJ format as install files. parameters: -arj - ART DIRECTOR extention: .art origin/purpose: Art Director is a painting program used on Atari ST computers. parameters: -artd - ARTIST 64 origin/purpose: The graphic file format of Artist 64, a painting program for the C64. parameters: -ar64 - ASCII WITH UNICODE CODES origin/purpose: These are ASCII files which use the '\uDDDD' notation to store Unicode characters. parameters: -ascu - ASMO 449 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 9036 and ISO-IR-89. origin/purpose: An Arabic character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:205 - ATARI ATASCII TEXT origin/purpose: The ATASCII character set is used on 8-bit Atari computers. compliance: GDV doesn't support this character set completely. It just translates the line seperators. parameters: -text -txtcs:2 - ATARI IMAGE MANAGER (AIM) extention: .im origin/purpose: AIM is an image processing program written at the Delft University of Technology (in the Netherlands). parameters: -aim - ATARI ST/TT TEXT origin/purpose: Text files from the Atari ST/TT computers. parameters: -text -txtcs:12 - AUTODESK ANIMATOR PRO CEL extention: .cel origin/purpose: Used by Autodesk Animator Pro to store frames. compliance: Note that the original Autodesk Animator uses a different format! parameters: -flic - AVATAR DATA STREAM extention: .avt origin/purpose: Text files with color codes, cursor positioning codes and other codes. compliance: All AVT/0 codes are supported. The blink attribute is not supported. parameters: -avt - AVR extention: .avr origin/purpose: The AVR format (developed by Audio Visual Research) is used to store sound samples. parameters: -avr - BALTIC TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-179. parameters: -text -txtcs:238 - BINARY CODED DECIMAL (BCD) origin/purpose: This is a method used to store numbers especially long numbers). It uses 4-bits per digit, so one byte stores two digits. parameters: -text -txtcs:14 - BINARY DISPLAY origin/purpose: This mode can be used for binary files. It can be combined with most character sets. parameters: -text -txtbin - BLAZING PADDLES extention: .bp origin/purpose: A graphic file format used on the C64. parameters: -blpd - BOO ENCODED DATA extention: .boo origin/purpose: Files which contain the 7-bit representation of 8-bit binary data. GD View decodes the file and writes the binary data to disk. parameters: -boo - BS 4730 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-GB and ISO-IR-4. origin/purpose: The British 7-bit version of ASCII. parameters: -text -txtcs:176 - BS VIEWDATA TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-47. parameters: -text -txtcs:191 - BTOA extention: .b2a name: BTOA stands for "binary to ascii". origin/purpose: BTOA is a UNIX program which converts binary data to normal printable ascii data. It produces smaller output files than uuencode but the en-/decoding process is slower. GD View decodes the file and writes the binary data to disk (normally one would need the atob program to do that). parameters: -btoa - CAESAR origin/purpose: Caesar encrypted files are text files which were encrypted using an extremely simple algorithm. GD View creates the decrypted file. parameters: -csar - CBM ARC extention: .arc, .sda origin/purpose: The archive format of the popular Commodore 64/128 archiver ARC. It uses a format which is incompatible to the standard (DOS) ARC. compliance: Self dissolving archives (SDAs) are supported, too. parameters: -carc - CBM HI-RES FORMAT extention: .hir origin/purpose: A file format used on the C64 for hi-resolution black and white graphical images. parameters: -hir - CDU PAINT extention: .cdu origin/purpose: The graphic file format of CDU Paint, a painting program for the C64. The CDU format is based on the the Koala Paint format. The only difference is that CDU files have a small loader. parameters: -cdu - CMU WM RASTER extention: .cmu, .cmuwm origin/purpose: A graphical image format used by the CMU window manager. parameters: -cmu - CODE PAGE 037 (EBCDIC - UNITED STATES) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The United States EBCDIC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:20 - CODE PAGE 038 (EBCDIC-INT) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: An international version of the EBCDIC character set used on DOS systems. parameters: -text -txtcs:21 - CODE PAGE 10000 (MACINTOSH ROMAN 10000) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: Text files which use the Apple Macintosh Roman 10000 character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:148 - CODE PAGE 10006 (MACINTOSH GREEK 1) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: Text files which use the Apple Macintosh Greek 1 character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:149 - CODE PAGE 10007 (MACINTOSH CYRILLIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: Text files which use the Apple Macintosh Cyrillic character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:150 - CODE PAGE 10029 (MACINTOSH LATIN 2) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: Text files which use the Apple Macintosh Latin 2 character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:151 - CODE PAGE 1004 (OS/2 LATIN 1) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A Latin-1 character set used by OS/2. parameters: -text -txtcs:104 - CODE PAGE 1006 (URDU - ISO) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:105 - CODE PAGE 10079 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A Macintosh character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:152 - CODE PAGE 1008 (ARABIC WINDOWS - ORIGINAL) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:106 - CODE PAGE 10081 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A Macintosh character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:153 - CODE PAGE 1025 (CYRILLIC - EBCDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:107 - CODE PAGE 1026 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The EBCDIC code page of MS Windows. parameters: -text -txtcs:108 - CODE PAGE 1027 (JAPAN (LATIN) - EBCDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:109 - CODE PAGE 1028 (HEBREW - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:110 - CODE PAGE 1038 (POSTSCRIPT SYMBOL SET) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:111 - CODE PAGE 1041 (JAPAN SAA) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:112 - CODE PAGE 1043 (TAIWAN SAA) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:113 - CODE PAGE 1046 (ARABIC - EBCDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:114 - CODE PAGE 1047 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:115 - CODE PAGE 1051 (HP ROMAN 8) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:116 - CODE PAGE 1088 (KOREA KS) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:117 - CODE PAGE 1089 (ARABIC - ISO 8859-6) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:118 - CODE PAGE 1092 (PC SYMBOLS) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:119 - CODE PAGE 1097 (FARSI - EBCDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:120 - CODE PAGE 1098 (FARSI) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:121 - CODE PAGE 1112 (BALTIC - EBCDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:122 - CODE PAGE 1114 (TAIWAN BIG-5) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:123 - CODE PAGE 1115 (CHINA GB) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:124 - CODE PAGE 1116 (ESTONIA) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:125 - CODE PAGE 1117 (LATVIA) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:126 - CODE PAGE 1118 (LITHUANIA) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:127 - CODE PAGE 1119 (LITHUSANIAN AND RUSSIAN) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:128 - CODE PAGE 1122 (ESTONIA - EBCDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:129 - CODE PAGE 1123 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:130 - CODE PAGE 1124 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:131 - CODE PAGE 1250 (MS WINDOWS EASTERN EUROPE) TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as Windows Latin 2. origin/purpose: The Eastern Europe code page of MS Windows. parameters: -text -txtcs:132 - CODE PAGE 1251 (MS WINDOWS CYRILLIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Cyrillic code page of MS Windows. parameters: -text -txtcs:133 - CODE PAGE 1252 (MS WINDOWS ANSI) TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as Windows Latin 1. origin/purpose: The ANSI code page of MS Windows 3.1 and newer versions. This is the default Windows code page. It is downwards compatible to ISO 8859/1. parameters: -text -txtcs:134 - CODE PAGE 1253 (MS WINDOWS GREEK) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Greek code page of MS Windows. parameters: -text -txtcs:135 - CODE PAGE 1254 (MS WINDOWS TURKISH) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Turkish code page of MS Windows. parameters: -text -txtcs:136 - CODE PAGE 1255 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Hebrew code page of MS Windows. parameters: -text -txtcs:137 - CODE PAGE 1256 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Arabic code page of MS Windows. parameters: -text -txtcs:138 - CODE PAGE 1257 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Baltic code page of MS Windows. parameters: -text -txtcs:139 - CODE PAGE 1258 (MS WINDOWS VIETNAMESE) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:140 - CODE PAGE 1275 (APPLE LATIN 1) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:141 - CODE PAGE 1276 (ADOBE PS STANDARD ENCODING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:142 - CODE PAGE 1277 (ADOBE PS ISOLATIN1 ENCODING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:143 - CODE PAGE 1280 (APPLE GREECE) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:144 - CODE PAGE 1281 (APPLE TURKEY) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:145 - CODE PAGE 1282 (APPLE CENTRAL EUROPEAN) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:146 - CODE PAGE 1283 (APPLE CYRILLIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:147 - CODE PAGE 256 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: An international EBCDIC character set for DOS. parameters: -text -txtcs:22 - CODE PAGE 259 (SYMBOLS WP - EBCDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:23 - CODE PAGE 273 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:24 - CODE PAGE 274 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:25 - CODE PAGE 275 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:26 - CODE PAGE 277 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Danish and Norwegian EBCDIC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:27 - CODE PAGE 278 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Finnish and Swedish EBCDIC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:28 - CODE PAGE 280 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Italian EBCDIC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:29 - CODE PAGE 282 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:30 - CODE PAGE 284 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Spanish EBCDIC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:31 - CODE PAGE 285 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The British EBCDIC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:32 - CODE PAGE 290 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:33 - CODE PAGE 293 (APL - EBCDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:34 - CODE PAGE 297 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:35 - CODE PAGE 361 (INTERNATIONAL - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:36 - CODE PAGE 363 (SYMBOLS - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:37 - CODE PAGE 367 (G0 - ASCII) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:38 - CODE PAGE 382 (AUSTRIA, GERMANY - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:39 - CODE PAGE 383 (BELGIUM - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:40 - CODE PAGE 385 (CANADA (FRENCH) - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:41 - CODE PAGE 386 (DENMARK, NORWAY - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:42 - CODE PAGE 387 (FINLAND, SWEDEN - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:43 - CODE PAGE 388 (FRANCE - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:44 - CODE PAGE 389 (ITALY - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:45 - CODE PAGE 391 (PORTUGAL - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:46 - CODE PAGE 392 (SPAIN - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:47 - CODE PAGE 393 (LATIN AMERICA - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:48 - CODE PAGE 394 (UNITED KINGDOM - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:49 - CODE PAGE 395 (UNITED STATES - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:50 - CODE PAGE 420 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:51 - CODE PAGE 423 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:52 - CODE PAGE 424 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:53 - CODE PAGE 437 (USA) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: This character set used to be the (only) 8-bit MS DOS Extended character set (IBM PC-8 character set). When Microsoft added support for other character sets, the original set was kept as code page 437 for backwards-compatibility. Many MS DOS users still use this character set although Microsoft recommends using code page 850. It was first used in 1981 with PC DOS 1.0. parameters: -text -txtcs:54 - CODE PAGE 500 (EBCDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: An IBM PC code page which contains the EBCDIC character set parameters: -text -txtcs:55 - CODE PAGE 737 (GREEK II OR IBM GREEK) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Greek II IBM PC code page (also known as IBM Greek). parameters: -text -txtcs:56 - CODE PAGE 775 ("BALTRIM") TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:57 - CODE PAGE 813 (GREECE - ISO 8859-7) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:58 - CODE PAGE 819 (LATIN 1 - ISO 8859-1) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:59 - CODE PAGE 829 (MATH SYMBOLS - PUBLISHING) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:60 - CODE PAGE 833 (KOREA - EBCDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:61 - CODE PAGE 836 (CHINA - EBCDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:62 - CODE PAGE 838 (THAI - EBCDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:63 - CODE PAGE 850 (LATIN I - MULTILINGUAL) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: In 1987 Microsoft released MS DOS 3.3 and added support for code page 850 (Latin I). It is the default code page of the MS DOS versions for most European language countries. It contains all characters necessary to display ISO 8859/1 texts. Microsoft recommends using this character set instead of code page 437. parameters: -text -txtcs:64 - CODE PAGE 851 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:65 - CODE PAGE 852 (LATIN II - SLAVIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Latin 2 IBM PC code page. It contains Slavic characters. parameters: -text -txtcs:66 - CODE PAGE 853 (MULTILINGUAL LATIN 3) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:67 - CODE PAGE 855 (CYRILLIC I) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Cyrillic I IBM PC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:68 - CODE PAGE 856 (HEBREW - OLD) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:69 - CODE PAGE 857 (TURKISH) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Turkish I IBM PC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:70 - CODE PAGE 860 (PORTUGUESE) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Portuguese IBM PC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:71 - CODE PAGE 861 (ICELANDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Icelandic IBM PC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:72 - CODE PAGE 862 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Hebrew IBM PC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:73 - CODE PAGE 863 (FRENCH CANADIAN) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The French Canadian IBM PC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:74 - CODE PAGE 864 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Arabic IBM PC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:75 - CODE PAGE 865 (NORDIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Nordic IBM PC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:76 - CODE PAGE 866 (CYRILLIC 2 OR RUSSIAN) TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Cyrillic II (Russian) IBM PC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:77 - CODE PAGE 868 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:78 - CODE PAGE 869 (GREEK I OR IBM MODERN GREEK) TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as IBM Modern Greek. origin/purpose: The Greek I IBM PC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:79 - CODE PAGE 870 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:80 - CODE PAGE 871 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:81 - CODE PAGE 874 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:82 - CODE PAGE 875 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The EBCDIC IBM PC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:83 - CODE PAGE 878 (RUSSIA - INTERNET) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:84 - CODE PAGE 880 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A cyrillic EBCDIC code page. parameters: -text -txtcs:85 - CODE PAGE 891 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:86 - CODE PAGE 895 (JAPAN G0 (LATIN) - EUC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:87 - CODE PAGE 896 (JAPAN G2 (KATAKANA) - EUC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:88 - CODE PAGE 897 (JAPAN) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:89 - CODE PAGE 903 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:90 - CODE PAGE 904 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:91 - CODE PAGE 907 (APL) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:92 - CODE PAGE 909 (APL2 EXTENDED) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:93 - CODE PAGE 910 (APL2) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:94 - CODE PAGE 912 (LATIN 2 - ISO 8859-2) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:95 - CODE PAGE 913 (LATIN 3 - ISO 8859-3) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:96 - CODE PAGE 914 (LATIN 4 - ISO 8859-4) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:97 - CODE PAGE 915 (CYRILLIC - ISO 8859-5) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:98 - CODE PAGE 916 (ISRAEL - ISO 8859-8) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:99 - CODE PAGE 918 TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:100 - CODE PAGE 920 (LATIN 5 - ISO 8859-9) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:101 - CODE PAGE 921 (BALTIC) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:102 - CODE PAGE 922 (ESTONIA) TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:103 - COLORIX extention: .sc?, .rix origin/purpose: A format used by ColoRIX and WinRIX. compliance: Implementation partially based on guess work. Most uncompressed images should work. parameters: -rix - COMMODORE 64/128 FONT extention: .fnt origin/purpose: 8x8 character fonts used on CBM computers. parameters: -cbmf - COMMODORE BASIC 1.0 extention: .prg origin/purpose: Commodore Basic (CBM Basic) source code is saved in a binary format but GDV can reconstruct it. parameters: -cb1 - COMMODORE BASIC 10.0 extention: .prg origin/purpose: Commodore Basic (CBM Basic) source code is saved in a binary format but GDV can reconstruct it. parameters: -cb10 - COMMODORE BASIC 2.0 W/ SUPER EXTENDER extention: .prg origin/purpose: This is an extended version of CBM Basic 2.0. Commodore Basic source code is saved in a binary format but GDV can reconstruct it. parameters: -cbse - COMMODORE BASIC 2.0 extention: .prg origin/purpose: Commodore Basic (CBM Basic) source code is saved in a binary format but GDV can reconstruct it. parameters: -cb2 - COMMODORE BASIC 3.5 extention: .prg origin/purpose: Commodore Basic (CBM Basic) source code is saved in a binary format but GDV can reconstruct it. parameters: -cb35 - COMMODORE BASIC 4.0 EXPANSION FOR C64 extention: .prg origin/purpose: Commodore Basic (CBM Basic) source code is saved in a binary format but GDV can reconstruct it. parameters: -cb4s - COMMODORE BASIC 4.0 extention: .prg origin/purpose: Commodore Basic (CBM Basic) source code is saved in a binary format but GDV can reconstruct it. parameters: -cb4 - COMMODORE BASIC 7.0 extention: .prg origin/purpose: Commodore Basic (CBM Basic) source code is saved in a binary format but GDV can reconstruct it. parameters: -cb7 - COREL DRAW extention: .cdr, .pat origin/purpose: A vector graphics format used by the popular Windows program Corel Draw. compliance: Only the preview image is shown. Not all versions are supported. parameters: -cdrw - CRAIG BRUCE'S BM FORMAT extention: .bm origin/purpose: Craig Bruce is the author of VBM (a C128 program). The program uses this bitmap format. parameters: -cbbm - CREATIVE MUSIC (CMF) extention: .cmf origin/purpose: A music file format used with Sound Blaster sound cards. compliance: SBFMDRV.COM must be loaded! parameters: -ctmf - CREATIVE VOICE (VOC) extention: .voc origin/purpose: A sound sample format developed by Creative Labs. It is used extensively on IBM PCs due to the popularity of the Sound Blaster sound card family. compliance: All common sample types should work. Silences and loops are ignored. parameters: -cvoc - CRUNCH origin/purpose: Crunch is a file compression program. parameters: -crn - CRUSH extention: .cru, .cri origin/purpose: Crush is a file archiver by PocketWare which is used together with other compressing file archivers. compliance: All files should work. Only the uncompressed .CRU/.CRI files are shown. parameters: -cru - CSA Z243.4-1985-1 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-CA and ISO-IR-121. parameters: -text -txtcs:219 - CSA Z243.4-1985-2 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-CA2 and ISO-IR-122. parameters: -text -txtcs:220 - CSA Z243.4-1985-GR TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-132. parameters: -text -txtcs:223 - CSN 369103 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-139. parameters: -text -txtcs:225 - CWI TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:154 - DBASE / FOXBASE / FOXBASE+ extention: .dbf origin/purpose: One of the most commonly used database formats on IBM PCs. In addition to dBase this format is also used by Clipper, dBXL, dBFast, dBFast/Windows, Quicksilver and by many Shareware database programs. Virtually every important database program is able to export dBase files. compliance: Memo files are not used. parameters: -dbf - DBLITE extention: .dbl origin/purpose: dbLite is a Shareware free-form database program for MS DOS by Michael J. Seither. compliance: All files should work but notes are not supported. parameters: -dbl - DCX extention: .dcx origin/purpose: The DCX is format is defined by the DCA/Intel Communicating Applications Specification (CAS). compliance: Some fax modem vendors use nonstandard images. parameters: -dcx - DEC AUDIO extention: .au origin/purpose: The DEC .au format is a sound sample format which is similar to the Sun/NeXT .au format. compliance: All common sample types should work. parameters: -au - DEC-MCS TEXT extention: txt, doc name: MCS stands for Multilanguage Character Set. origin/purpose: The DEC MCS character set is used on DEC VT100 and VT200 terminals. It was first used in 1982 and it was similar to the ISO 6937/2 character set. The ECMA-94 standard is based on it. The only difference to the final ISO 8859/1 standard is that four icelandic characters are missing. DEC MCS is used with DEC Ultrix and VAX VMS. parameters: -text -txtcs:155 - DECIMAL DISPLAY origin/purpose: This mode can be used for binary files. It can be combined with most character sets. parameters: -text -txtdec - DEGAS / DEGAS ELITE UNCOMPRESSED extention: .pi1, .pi2, .pi3 origin/purpose: Degas is a popular painting program used on Atari ST computers. parameters: -dgas - DEGAS ELITE COMPRESSED extention: .pc1, .pc2, .pc3 origin/purpose: Degas Elite is a painting program used on Atari ST computers. parameters: -dgec - DESCENT .HOG extention: .hog origin/purpose: HOG files are used by Descent, a 3d game by Parallax Software. parameters: -dhog - DEVICE INDEPENDENT BITMAP (DIB/BMP) extention: .bmp, .dib, .rle, .rl4, .rl8, .sys name: "Device Independent" just means that Windows can display the image consistently on all kinds of output devices. origin/purpose: A graphical image format used by Microsoft Windows and OS/2. The MS Windows 95 logos (*.SYS) are in DIB format. compliance: Virtually all images should work (including RLE compressed ones). parameters: -dib - DEVICE INDEPENDENT BITMAP - EMBEDDED origin/purpose: Files which contain embedded DIB data. GD View searches and extracts the DIB files. In order words GD View can "rip" BMP files out of data files or executables. parameters: -dibe - DIN 66003 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-DE and ISO-IR-21. origin/purpose: German version of ASCII. parameters: -text -txtcs:187 - DOODLE (ATARI ST) extention: .doo origin/purpose: Pictures created by the Atari ST Doodle program. parameters: -ddst - DRAW256 extention: .vga origin/purpose: Draw256 is a free art program for MS DOS by Matthew Hildebrand. parameters: -d256 - DS 2089 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-DK. origin/purpose: The Danish version of ASCII. parameters: -text -txtcs:156 - DUKE NUKEM 3D .GRP extention: .grp origin/purpose: GRP files are used by Apogee's Duke Nukem 3D. parameters: -dn3d - DWC extention: .dwc, .exe origin/purpose: DWC is a file archiver by Dean W. Cooper. compliance: Self-extracting archives are supported. parameters: -dwc - EBCDIC TEXT (GENERIC VERSION) extention: .txt, .doc name: EBCDIC stands for Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code. origin/purpose: EBCDIC is a character set which is incompatible to 7-bit ASCII. It was developed by IBM and is used on mainframe computers. compliance: This "Generic" EBCDIC character set is a combination of several EBCDIC variants and it is designed to handle most EBCDIC texts. parameters: -text -txtcs:0 - EBCDIC-AT-DE TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A German and Austrian EBCDIC character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:157 - EBCDIC-AT-DE-A TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A German and Austrian EBCDIC character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:158 - EBCDIC-CA-FR TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A Canadian and French EBCDIC character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:159 - EBCDIC-DK-NO TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A Danish and Norwegian EBCDIC character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:160 - EBCDIC-DK-NO-A TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A Danish and Norwegian EBCDIC character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:161 - EBCDIC-ES TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A Spanish EBCDIC character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:162 - EBCDIC-ES-A TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A Spanish EBCDIC character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:163 - EBCDIC-ES-S TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A Spanish EBCDIC character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:164 - EBCDIC-FI-SE TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A Finnish and Swedish EBCDIC character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:165 - EBCDIC-FI-SE-A TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A Finnish and Swedish EBCDIC character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:166 - EBCDIC-FR TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A French EBCDIC character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:167 - EBCDIC-IS-FRISS TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:169 - EBCDIC-IT TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: An Italian EBCDIC character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:168 - EBCDIC-PT TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:170 - EBCDIC-UK TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:171 - EBCDIC-US TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: An American EBCDIC character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:172 - ECMA-CYRILLIC TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-111. parameters: -text -txtcs:218 - ENCAPSULATED POSTSCRIPT (EPS) - TIFF PREVIEW extention: .eps origin/purpose: A popular graphics format by Adobe. compliance: Only TIFF preview images in EPS files are supported. Unfortunately, some EPS files (especially Macintosh ones) do not contain TIFF preview images. parameters: -eps - EPSON DENMARK TEXT extention: .txt, .doc origin/purpose: Danish version of 7-bit ASCII. parameters: -text -txtcs:5 - EPSON ENGLAND TEXT extention: .txt, .doc origin/purpose: UK version of 7-bit ASCII (not same as ISO IR 4). parameters: -text -txtcs:4 - EPSON FRANCE TEXT extention: .txt, .doc origin/purpose: French version of 7-bit ASCII (not same as ISO IR 69). parameters: -text -txtcs:3 - EPSON ITALY TEXT extention: .txt, .doc origin/purpose: Italian version of 7-bit ASCII (not same as ISO IR 15). parameters: -text -txtcs:7 - EPSON JAPAN TEXT extention: .txt, .doc origin/purpose: Japanese version of 7-bit ASCII. parameters: -text -txtcs:9 - EPSON SPAIN TEXT extention: .txt, .doc origin/purpose: Spanish version of 7-bit ASCII (not same as ISO IR 17). parameters: -text -txtcs:8 - EPSON SWEDEN TEXT extention: .txt, .doc origin/purpose: Swedish version of 7-bit ASCII (not same as ISO IR 10). parameters: -text -txtcs:6 - EXCESS 3 BCD origin/purpose: This is a variant of BCD, which can be processed easier by electronic devices. parameters: -text -txtcs:16 - EXEC MEMOMAKER origin/purpose: A text format. compliance: Autodetection is not possible. parameters: -exmm - EXECUTABLES (EXE, COM, BAT, ASSOCIATIONS) origin/purpose: GD View can be used as a program shell. Files which can be executed by the operating system. In addition to that special file types can be associated with programs, for example BASIC files could be associated with a BASIC interpreter or emulator disk files could be associated with the respective emulator. If GD View is running in a Windows NT or Windows 95 DOS Box then you can use the exec viewer to call the Windows association for files and the Explorer for directories (using WV.EXE). parameters: -exec - FACE extention: .fac, .face origin/purpose: Used for images of people's faces. parameters: -face - FLI (C64) extention: .fli origin/purpose: A popular graphics file format on the C64. It is used with the special C64 "FLI" graphic mode. This format is not related to the Autodesk Animator FLIC format (.fli and .flc files). parameters: -fli - FLIC extention: .fli, .flc, .flh, .flt origin/purpose: An Animation format used by Autodesk Animator and Autodesk Animator Pro. This is one of the most important animation formats on IBM PC compatible computers. compliance: In addition to the Autodesk Animator FLI and Autodesk Animator Pro FLC formats, GD View also supports the HiColor FLH and the TrueColor FLT formats! Palette animation is not supported in some video modes. parameters: -flic - FONTEDIT (CHRIS HOWE) FONT origin/purpose: Font files created with Chris Howe's Fontedit. parameters: -chfe - FOXPRO, FOXPRO FOR WINDOWS origin/purpose: Database format similar to dBase format. compliance: Memos, Objects and Pictures are not supported. parameters: -dbf - GB 1988-80 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-CN and ISO-IR-57. parameters: -text -txtcs:197 - GEM IMAGE extention: .img, .gem, .gmi origin/purpose: This format was developed by Digital Research for programs which run in the GEM enviroment (e.g. on Atari ST computers). This format is also also used by Ventura Publisher. parameters: -gimg - GIFFER QDV extention: .qdv origin/purpose: A graphical image file format used by the Apple Macintosh "beerware" program Giffer (Steve Blackstone). parameters: -qdv - GIRLS & POKER FOR WINDOWS DATA extention: .pok origin/purpose: Girls & Poker is an adult Shareware game for MS Windows by Ain Avi. GDV can display the data files of the game. parameters: -gapo - GOST 19768-74 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ST SEV 358-8 and ISO-IR-153. parameters: -text -txtcs:233 - GRAPHICS INTERCHANGE FORMAT (GIF) extention: .gif, .giff, .pla, .ppf name: The GIF specification states that "GIF" is supposed to be pronounced "jif" (pronounce the 'j' as in "jelly") but most people prefer pronouncing it "gif" (pronounce the 'g' as in "Graphics"). origin/purpose: "The Graphics Interchange Format(c) is the Copyright property of CompuServe Incorporated. GIF(sm) is a Service Mark property of CompuServe Incorporated." The GIF file format is one of the most popular graphical image formats used on PCs. compliance: All GIF files should be supported (GIF87a and GIF89a). GIF files can contain more than one images but only the first one is displayed. You can only look at the first frame of an Aldus Persuasion file. parameters: -gif - GRASP LIBRARY (GL) extention: .gl origin/purpose: A file format which is used to store animations. It is used on MS DOS and Amiga systems. parameters: -gspl - GREEK-CCITT TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-150. parameters: -text -txtcs:231 - GREEK7 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-88. parameters: -text -txtcs:204 - GREEK7-OLD TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-18. parameters: -text -txtcs:185 - GTS SOUND SAMPLE extention: .sam origin/purpose: Sound sample files used by the GTS music system. parameters: -gtss - GZIP (.GZ) extention: .gz, .tgz, .gzip origin/purpose: gzip is a popular UNIX utility which is used to compress files. A lot of files on the Internet are compressed with gzip. parameters: -gzip - HA extention: .ha origin/purpose: HA is a file archiver by Harri Hirvola. parameters: -ha - HALO CUT extention: .cut / .pal compliance: There must be an associated .PAL file if the image is not mono. parameters: -hcut - HANDY SCANNER 2000 extention: .hs2 origin/purpose: Used by Handy Scanner 2000 software compliance: The HSZ image archives can be decompressed with ZIP. parameters: -hns2 - HEADERLESS SOUND SAMPLE (RAW) extention: .smp, .sam, .snd, .raw, .sb, .sw, .u8, .ul, .uw, .au, .8sn origin/purpose: These are raw sound samples. They do not contain a header which specifies the type of the sound file or the sample rate. GDV tries to guess the parameters but there is no 100% safe way to do it so in some cases you will have to specify the correct parameters on the command line. Macintosh and IBM PC sound files are usually unsigned (use "-rsub"). Amiga, Atari ST/TT and Atari Falcon sound files are usually signed (use "-rssb"). UNIX sound files are usually in U-Law format (use "-rsul"). compliance: All files should work. However the correct sound type must be selected. parameters: -rsam -rsmp -rssb -rssd -rssw -rsub -rsud -rsul -rsuw - HEXADECIMAL DISPLAY origin/purpose: This mode is for binary files and it can be combined with most character sets. parameters: -text -txthex - HP 48 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The character set used on HP48 pocket computers. parameters: -text -txtcs:174 - HP-ROMAN8 TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: Hewlett Packard's Roman 8 font. parameters: -text -txtcs:173 - HQX (BINHEX) extention: .hqx, .hcx, .hex origin/purpose: Files which contain the 7-bit representation of 8-bit binary Macintosh files. These files can be transported e.g. via e-mail without losing information. The data the resource forks are transported as well as the attributes of the file. GD View decodes the file and writes the binary data (two seperate files) to disk. compliance: Only Hqx7 is supported, not Hqx8. parameters: -hqx - HRZ extention: .hrz origin/purpose: A graphical image format by Hitachi. Apparently used with SSTV (slow scan television). parameters: -hrz - HSI RAW extention: .raw, .hst origin/purpose: The HSI Raw format is used by Image Alchemy (Handmade Software, Inc.). compliance: Only version 4 is supported. parameters: -hsir - HYPER extention: .hyp, .exe origin/purpose: Hyper is a file archiver by P. Sawatski and K.P. Nischke. compliance: Self-extracting archives are supported, too! parameters: -hyp - HYPERTEXT MARKUP LANGUAGE (HTML) extention: .htm, .html origin/purpose: HTML is a document language which is used in the World Wide Web. compliance: Only standard text elements are shown. parameters: -html - IBM PC TEXT MODE SCREEN IMAGE (BINARY) extention: .bin, .scr origin/purpose: Raw IBM PC text mode screen images. The name of this format may sound a bit weird but these kind of files are actually used by a lot of screen drawing programs. They usually call this format "Binary" or "Raw". compliance: It is impossible to determine the correct screen width so in some cases the "-x:NN" parameter has to be used (for example "-x:40" if the screen width is 40). parameters: -sbin - ICE COLOR ANSI extention: .ans, .ice origin/purpose: This is an incompatible extention of the MS DOS ANSI.SYS command set which was originally used by the famous art group iCE (Insane Creator's Enterprise). parameters: -ians - ID SOFTWARE WAD extention: .wad origin/purpose: WAD files are used by Games written by or based on games by id software, e.g. D**m, D**m 2 and Heretic. parameters: -iwad - ILBM (IFF) extention: .lbm, .iff, .ilbm, .ilb, .ham, .ham6, .ham8, .ehb, .bbm, .brush origin/purpose: This is a graphical image format which is very popular on the Amiga. BBM files are Deluxe Paint brush files. compliance: Hold-and-modify (HAM6), Hold-any-modify-8 (HAM8), extra-half-brite (EHB) and DP2E PBM images are supported but some of the other special variations aren't (MP, SHAM). parameters: -ilbm - IM extention: .im origin/purpose: This format is used to store digital graphical images. parameters: -im - INIS TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-49. parameters: -text -txtcs:192 - INIS-8 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-50. parameters: -text -txtcs:193 - INIS-CYRILLIC TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-51. parameters: -text -txtcs:194 - INTEL HEX extention: .hex origin/purpose: The Intel Hex format is used when programming micro- chips. It was developed by Intel. GD View decodes the file and writes the binary microcode to disk. The CompuServe binary format is compatible to the Intel Hex format. parameters: -ihex - INVARIANT TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-170. parameters: -text -txtcs:237 - ISO 10646 origin/purpose: The ISO 16-bit character set standard. ISO 10646 supports all special characters to store texts in virtually any language. It also supports virtually all characters needed for scientific purposes. ISO/IEC 10646-1 was approved as an international standard in June 1992 and published in May 1993. compliance: GDV is only able to display characters which are supported by the local character set. Special multi-word codes are not interpreted properly. parameters: -text -txtcs:11 - JIS C6220-1969-JP TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-13. origin/purpose: A Japanese Katakana character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:180 - JIS C6220-1969-RO TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also knwon as ISO 646-JP and ISO-IR-14. origin/purpose: A Japanese version of ASCII. parameters: -text -txtcs:181 - JIS C6229-1984-A TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-91. parameters: -text -txtcs:206 - JIS C6229-1984-B TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-JP-OCR-B and ISO-IR-92. parameters: -text -txtcs:207 - JIS C6229-1984-B-ADD TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-93. parameters: -text -txtcs:208 - JIS C6229-1984-HAND TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-94. parameters: -text -txtcs:209 - JIS C6229-1984-HAND-ADD TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-95. parameters: -text -txtcs:210 - JIS C6229-1984-KANA TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-96. parameters: -text -txtcs:211 - JPEG/JFIF extention: .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .jfif, .jfi, .jff, .thm name: JPEG (pronounced Jay-Peg) stands for Joint Photographers Expert Group. JFIF stands for JPEG File Interchange Format. origin/purpose: JPEG/JFIF files use a lossy compression method to minimize the file size of graphical images. JPEG/JFIF files are therefore very small and they can be transported at relatively high speeds over the Internet. compliance: Only 8-bit samples are supported. Arithmetic entropy coding is not supported. Lossless JPEG is not supported. Nevertheless nearly all uncorrupt files should work. Due to memory limitations GD View for DOS will however not be able to display most progressive JPEG files. parameters: -jfif - JUS I.B1. 002 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-YU and ISO-IR-141. origin/purpose: The Croatian/Slovene 7-bit character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:226 - JUS I.B1.003-MAC TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-147. origin/purpose: The Macedonian character set (Yugoslavia). parameters: -text -txtcs:229 - JUS I.B1.003-SERB TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-146. origin/purpose: A Serbian character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:228 - KOALA PAINTER extention: .koa origin/purpose: Koala Painter is a popular paint program for the C64. The images are for the C64 multicolor mode and the size is always 160x200. The palette is fixed. parameters: -koa - KOI-8R TEXT extention: txt, doc parameters: -text -txtcs:240 - KSC 5636 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-KR. parameters: -text -txtcs:241 - LARC extention: .lzs, .com origin/purpose: LARC is a Japanese file archiver by K. Miki, H. Okumura and K. Masuyama. compliance: Self-extracting archives are supported, too! parameters: -lha - LATIN-GREEK TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-19. parameters: -text -txtcs:186 - LATIN-GREEK-1 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-27. parameters: -text -txtcs:189 - LETTERS FONT extention: .fnt origin/purpose: EGA/VGA font files created by the Shareware program Letters (Yonah Schmeidler). parameters: -lett - LHARC / LHA / LHICE extention: .lzh, .lha, .com, .exe, .lzk, .ice, .qwk origin/purpose: LHarc is a popular Japanese file archiver by Haruyasu Yoshizaki. LHice is a hacked version of LHarc 1.13. LHA is the official successor of LHarc. LHA format files are created by LHA, LHarc, LHice, LH2 (A:WARE Inc.), LHARK (Kerwin F. Medina) and LHCTK/LHA.DLL (Rhizome Project). The LZK file extension is used by the KlickSoft installation program. compliance: Path names are not shown. Self-extracting archives are supported! parameters: -lha - LOTUS 1-2-3 (AND COMPATIBLE FORMATS) extention: .wks, .wk1, .wk2, .wkq origin/purpose: One of the most commonly used spreadsheet formats on IBM PCs. This format is also used by Lotus Symphony and As-Easy-As. Virtually every important worksheet program is able to export Lotus 1-2-3 files. compliance: Formulas, macros and some other special fields are not supported. WK3, WK4 and WQ1 files are not supported. parameters: -l123 - LOTUS AMI / LOTUS AMI PRO extention: .sam origin/purpose: A document format used by the Windows applications Lotus Ami and Lotus Ami Pro. compliance: Tested with Ami Pro 3.0 files. Only standard text elements are shown (unformatted). parameters: -lami - LZEXE COMPRESSED EXE extention: .exe origin/purpose: LZEXE is an executable compression program. parameters: -lze - MACBINARY origin/purpose: This format is used when Macintosh data has to be transferred to other systems. It is used very often. parameters: -mb - MACPAINT extention: .mac, .pnt, .mpnt, .macp, .pntg, .rle origin/purpose: Used by MacPaint (Macintosh Computers). compliance: Gray-scale images are not supported (do they exist?). parameters: -macp - MAGNATYPE origin/purpose: A document format used by Magnatype. compliance: Only plain text is shown. Auto-detection is not possible. parameters: -mgna - MAR extention: .mar origin/purpose: MAR is a file archiver by Haruhiko Okumura. compliance: Path names are not shown. parameters: -lha - MCUREDIT (TOOLBOX) extention: .cur origin/purpose: Mouse cursor format used by the MCUREDIT from the German magazine "toolbox". parameters: -txcu - MDCD extention: .md origin/purpose: MDCD is a file archiver by Mike Davenport. parameters: -md - MIME BASE64 extention: .m, .64 name: MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. origin/purpose: MIME Base64 is a popular Internet standard for encoding binary so that they can be transported using Internet e-mails or Usenet newsgroups. GD View decodes the file and writes the binary data to disk. compliance: Multi-part messages are not supported. parameters: -mb64 - MIME QUOTED PRINTABLE name: MIME Quoted-Printable is sometimes just called MIMEQP. MIME stands for Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. origin/purpose: MIME Quoted Printable is an encoding method which is used to transport data using Internet e-mails or using the Usenet newsgroups. It is used for files which mostly contain normal human-readable ASCII data with the exception of some 8-bit characters or some long lines. GD View decodes the file and writes the binary data to disk. parameters: -mqp - MS CABINET (.CAB) extention: .cab origin/purpose: An archive format which uses LZW compression. MS is trying to make the format an Internet standard but for a lot of reasons the ZIP format should be used instead of this one. parameters: -cab - MS PAINT extention: .msp origin/purpose: Used by MS Paint. parameters: -msp - MS WINDOWS "MS LINEDRAW" FONT TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: A font which comes with MS Windows. It contains line drawing characters. parameters: -text -txtcs:242 - MS WINDOWS "SYMBOL" FONT TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: The Symbol TrueType font provided with MS Windows. parameters: -text -txtcs:243 - MS WINDOWS "WINGDINGS" FONT TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: Wingdings is a font delivered with MS Windows. It contains graphical symbols. parameters: -text -txtcs:244 - MS WINDOWS 3.0 ANSI TEXT origin/purpose: Older MS Windows versions used to use the ISO 8859/1 character set, but Microsoft added a few characters to unused positions in the character set when it introduced MS Windows 3.0. Generally, most MS Windows ANSI texts should be compatible to the ISO 8859/1 character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:1 - MS WINDOWS CLIPBOARD extention: .clp origin/purpose: This format is used to store the contents of the clipboard (MS Windows). compliance: Clipboard files can contain all kinds of data. GD View does not support device dependent bitmaps or metafile pictures. - MS WINDOWS CURSOR extention: .cur origin/purpose: Icons used by MS Windows. compliance: Only the first image is shown. MS Windows Animated Cursors (*.ANI) are not supported. parameters: -wico - MS WINDOWS ICON extention: .ico origin/purpose: Icons used by MS Windows. compliance: Only first image is shown. TrueColor icons which rely on the AND-mask will not be shown 100% correct (don't worry, most other programs don't deal with AND-masks at all). parameters: -wico - MS WINDOWS RESOURCE extention: .res origin/purpose: Resource files are used internally by MS Windows programs to store all kinds of data. compliance: Win32 Resource files are not supported. parameters: -mwrs - MS WINDOWS WRITE (WRI) extention: .wri origin/purpose: A popular document format used by the Write application which is distributed with MS Windows. compliance: Only standard text elements are shown (unformatted). parameters: -mwdd - MS WORD CAPTURE SCREEN extention: .scr origin/purpose: Screen images produced with CAPTURE, a program that comes with some versions of MS Word for DOS. parameters: -mwcs - MS WORD FOR DOS extention: .txt origin/purpose: A popular document format used by Microsoft Word for DOS. compliance: Tested with MS Word for DOS 5.0 files. Only standard text elements are shown (unformatted). parameters: -mwdd - MS WORD FOR MACINTOSH origin/purpose: A popular Macintosh document format used by Microsoft Word for Macintosh. compliance: Only standard text elements are shown. parameters: -mwdm - MS WORD FOR WINDOWS, MS WINDOWS 95/NT WORDPAD extention: .doc, .ww2 origin/purpose: A popular document format used by Microsoft Word for Windows ("Winword") and by WordPad, a small word processor delivered with MS Windows 95 and newer versions of MS Windows NT. compliance: Tested with Winword 1.0, 2.0 and 6.0 files. Only standard text elements are shown. parameters: -mwdw - MS WORKS FOR DOS WORD PROCESSOR extention: .wps origin/purpose: A document format used by Microsoft Works. compliance: Tested with MS Works for DOS 1.0 files. Only standard text elements are shown (unformatted). parameters: -mwdd - MSZ 7795/3 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-HU and ISO-IR-86. origin/purpose: The Hungarian 7-bit character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:203 - MTV extention: .mtv origin/purpose: Image files used by the MTV ray tracer. The ray tracer is in the public domain. The PRT ray tracer also creates files with this format. parameters: -mtv - MULTIMATE, MULTIMATE ADVANTAGE origin/purpose: The document format used by Multimate. compliance: Tested with Multimate 3.30 and Multimate Advantage II files. Text is shown unformatted. parameters: -mmte - NAVY DIF origin/purpose: A document format. compliance: The formatting commands are ignored. parameters: -ndif - NC NC00-10:81 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-CU and ISO-IR-151. origin/purpose: The Cuban 7-bit ASCII character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:232 - NEOCHROME extention: .neo origin/purpose: Neochrome is a painting program used on Atari ST computers. parameters: -neo - NEXTSTEP TEXT extention: txt, doc origin/purpose: This character set is used on NeXT computers and on other computer systems using the NeXTStep operating system. parameters: -text -txtcs:245 - NF Z 62-010 (1973) TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-FR1 and ISO-IR-25. origin/purpose: A French ASCII character set. parameters: -text -txtcs:188 - NF Z 62-010 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-FR and ISO-IR-69. origin/purpose: The French version of ASCII. parameters: -text -txtcs:200 - NOVOSIELSKI LIBRARY (LBR) extention: .lbr origin/purpose: A popular archive format on CP/M machines. Also used to be used on MS DOS PCs. LBR files are created by LU (Novosielski), LU86 (T. Jennings & Paul Homchick), LUPC, LAR (Stephen C. Hemminger), LUPower (Powel Breder) and LUU (Vernon D. Buerg). parameters: -lbr - NROFF extention: .1, .man origin/purpose: Source files for the text formatting program nroff which is often used on UNIX and Atari ST systems to create manual pages. compliance: Most important nroff features are supported. parameters: -nrff - NS 4551-1 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-NO and ISO-IR-60. origin/purpose: A Norwegian ASCII version. parameters: -text -txtcs:198 - NS 4551-2 TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-NO2 and ISO-IR-61. origin/purpose: A Norwegian ASCII version. parameters: -text -txtcs:199 - OCTAL DISPLAY origin/purpose: This mode can be used for binary files. It can be combined with most character sets. parameters: -text -txtoct - OS/2 ICON extention: .ico origin/purpose: Used by OS/2. compliance: Only single-image icons are supported. Color and black&white images are supported. parameters: -os2p - OS/2 POINTER extention: .ptr origin/purpose: Used by OS/2. compliance: Only single-image icons are supported. Color and black&white images are supported. parameters: -os2p - PAK extention: .pak, .arc, .sdn, .exe origin/purpose: PAK is a file archiver for MS DOS by NoGate Consulting. compliance: Self-extracting archives are supported! parameters: -arc - PC BOARD COLOR CODES TEXT extention: .pcb origin/purpose: Text files which contain color codes and other codes. Used by the popular BBS software PC Board. compliance: All color codes and nearly all other codes are interpreted properly. Embedded ANSI codes are not supported. The blink attribute is not supported. parameters: -pcb - PC PAINTBRUSH PCX extention: .pcx, .pcc, .st origin/purpose: Format developed by ZSoft, the makers of PC Paintbrush. Used very often on IBM PCs. NeoPaint stamp files (*.st) are also PCX format images. compliance: All standard 2/16/256 color images should work. Unfortunately, there are a lot of bad PCX files floating around. Some old CGA PCX files are not supported. parameters: -pcx - PC WRITE extention: .doc origin/purpose: The format used by the Shareware MS DOS word PC Write. compliance: The text is shown without any formatting. Note: Autodetection of format is not possible! parameters: -pcwr - PCJ extention: .pcx + .p13 origin/purpose: This is an extention of the PC Paintbrush PCX format which uses an external file to store the palette (older versions of the PCX format only supported 16 colors). parameters: -pcx - PCPAINT / PICTOR PIC extention: .pic origin/purpose: Used by PCPAINT (Mouse Systems) and Pictor. PCPAINT PLUS files are also used in GRASP Libraries (GL files). compliance: Only 1-plane images are supported. Pictures generated by older versions of the programs might not be supported. Note: Graphic Workshop for DOS seems to create invalid 16-color files (data is 4-planar but the planes nibble is set to 0). parameters: -pcpt - PHOTO CD extention: .pcd origin/purpose: The Photo CD format was developed by Eastman Kodak. It is used to store photographical images on Photo CDs. You can put your own private photos on Photo CDs. compliance: The files contain the same images in several resolutions. GD View always uses the 768x512 image. Note that this is not a complete implementation of the format but GDV should produce acceptable results with nearly all files. parameters: -pcd - PICTURE PUBLISHER 4 AND 5 extention: .pp4, .pp5 origin/purpose: A graphical image program by Micrografx. parameters: -tiff - PORTABLE BIT/GRAY/PIX/ANYMAP extention: .pbm, .pgm, .ppm, .pnm origin/purpose: A portable way to store graphical images. Often used on the Internet. compliance: Virtually all files should work. Non-standard maximum pixel intensity values are not supported. parameters: -pnm - PORTABLE NETWORK GRAPHICS (PNG) extention: .png name: PNG is pronounced "ping". origin/purpose: A portable and highly compressed image format which is the official successor of the GIF format. PNG files are usually smaller than GIF files although lossless compression is used. parameters: -png - PROGRAM INFORMATION FILE (PIF) extention: .pif origin/purpose: PIF files are used by MS Windows, TopView and other multitasking systems. PIF files store information which is used by those systems to run MS DOS applications safely when using those systems. parameters: -pif - PROTEXT origin/purpose: A Word Processor document format used by Protext (an Atari ST application). compliance: Only plain text is shown. parameters: -ptxt - PSION SERIES 3 BITMAP (PIC) extention: .pic, .icn, .crs origin/purpose: The graphic file format used on Psion Series 3 pocket computers. compliance: Only the first image is loaded. GDV tries to autodetect if the second block contains gray scale information. parameters: -ps3p - PSION SERIES 3 WAVE extention: .wve origin/purpose: A sound sample format used on Psion series 3 notepads. A-law encoding is used. parameters: -ps3w - PUTGET extention: .put, .ins origin/purpose: PUT/GET is a file archiver for MS DOS systems by Jim Hass (MicroFox Company). compliance: Path names are not shown. parameters: -lha - QRT RAW / DKB RAW / POV DUMP extention: .raw, .dkb, .dis origin/purpose: A TrueColor format used by QRT, the DKB raytracer and by the Persistence of Vision ray tracer. parameters: -qrt - QUAKE PACK extention: .pak origin/purpose: PACK files are used by Quake, a really cool game by by id software. It is also used by newer versions of Cubic Player, a really cool module player by Cubic Team. parameters: -iwad - QUAKE WAD2 extention: .wad origin/purpose: WAD2 files are used by Quake, a really cool game by by id software. parameters: -iwad - QWK MAIL MESSAGES.DAT origin/purpose: The .QWK files themselves are actually just file archives. With some archive types GD View is able to extract files in them automatically while with others you have to use the GD Unpacker. The actual message data is stored in the MESSAGES.DAT file in that archive. You have to look at MESSAGES.DAT. parameters: -qwkm - RAR extention: .rar, .exe origin/purpose: RAR is a file archiver by Eugene Roshal which is becoming quite popular on IBM compatible PCs because it usually compresses better than PKZip 2.04g, ARJ 2.50 and other programs. OS/2 and Unix versions exist, too. compliance: Self-extracting archives are supported! Both the old and the new RAR 1.50+ formats are supported. parameters: -rar - RAW BIOS FONT extention: .fnt, .raw, .f07, .f08, .f09, .f10, .f11, .f12, .f13, .f14, .f16, .f19, .819 origin/purpose: Raw fonts like the ones which are in the ROM of computers. parameters: -rfnt - RAW GRAPHICAL IMAGE extention: .raw, .img, .rgb, .gry, etc. origin/purpose: This can be used to display most raw uncompressed graphical images, especially medical images and satellite images. parameters: -rgi - RENEGADE PIPE CODE TEXT origin/purpose: Text files which contain color codes. Used by the Renegade BBS system. compliance: All color codes are interpreted properly. The blink attribute is not supported. parameters: -rngd - RGB INTERMEDIATE FORMAT extention: .rgb origin/purpose: A graphical image format developed by Lars Michael. It is used on the Atari ST to store 12-bit RGB pictures. parameters: -rgbi - RICH-TEXT FORMAT extention: .rtf origin/purpose: A popular document format used on PCs and Macs. compliance: Only a subset of the full standard is interpreted correctly. parameters: -rtf - RIFF DIB (RDIB) origin/purpose: DIB graphical images embedded in a RIFF file. compliance: Virtually all images should work. parameters: -rdib - RIFF WAVE (WAV) extention: .wav origin/purpose: The RIFF Wave format is a sound sample format developed by Microsoft for use with MS Windows. It is used extensively on IBM PCs. compliance: 12-bit samples are not yet supported. Loops are not supported. There are a lot of damaged .wav files floating around but GDV handles them in most cases. parameters: -rwav - ROT 13 origin/purpose: ROT13 files are files which are encrypted (it is an extremely simple algorithm which does not use any key). ROT13 is used on Usenet to scramble information which might offend people. GD View creates the decrypted file. parameters: -rt13 - SAMI TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-158. parameters: -text -txtcs:236 - SAR extention: .sar origin/purpose: SAR is a file archiver by Streamline Design. compliance: Path names are not shown. parameters: -lha - SCREAM TRACKER 3/DIGIPLAYER SAMPLE extention: .st3 origin/purpose: This format is used by DigiPlayer and by the famous sound module tracker Scream Tracker by the even more famous demo group Future Crew. parameters: -dgsi - SEN 850200 B TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-FI, ISO 646-SE, SS 63 61 27 and ISO-IR-10. origin/purpose: Swedish/Finnish version of ASCII. It is (or used to be) quite popular in Sweden. parameters: -text -txtcs:178 - SEN 850200 C TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO 646-SE2, ISO-IR-11 and SS 63 61 27. origin/purpose: Second Swedish version of ASCII which supports most characters needed to display names in Sweden. parameters: -text -txtcs:179 - SGI IMAGE FORMAT extention: .bw, .rgb, .rgba, .sgi, .iris origin/purpose: A graphical image format used on Silicon Graphics workstation computers. parameters: -sgi - SGML, XML naming: SGML stands for Standard Generalized Markup Language XML stands for Extensible Markup Language extention: .sgm, .sgml, .gml origin/purpose: SGML is a powerful complex language for formally describing the structure and contents of documents. It is defined in ISO 8879:1986. XML is a subset of the SGML standard designed for use on the World Wide Web. compliance: GD View does NOT include an SGML/XML parser. It merely attempts to extract the text from an SGML document. With "well-designed" files the results can however be quite good. parameters: -sgml - SIMON'S BASIC extention: .prg origin/purpose: Simon's Basic extends the standard BASIC interpreter of the C64. The C64 stores the source code in a binary format but GDV can reconstruct and display it. parameters: -simb - SOUNDER extention: .snd origin/purpose: Sound sample files used on IBM PCs. parameters: -sndr - SOUNDTOOL / WIRED FOR SOUND extention: .snd origin/purpose: Sound sample files used on IBM PCs. The format was developed by Martin Hepperle for his SoundTool program. Wired For Sound (Artisoft) uses the same format. parameters: -st - SPECEM PRG extention: .prg origin/purpose: SP files are used by Specem, a ZX Spectrum emulator for MS DOS. GD View displays the contents of the video memory. parameters: -sprg - SPECTRUM / VGASPEC SP extention: .sp origin/purpose: SP files are used by SPECTRUM and VGASPEC. Both are ZX Spectrum emulators for MS DOS. GD View displays the contents of the video memory. parameters: -spsp - SPECTRUM 512 COMPRESSED (SPC) extention: .spc origin/purpose: Spectrum 512 compressed pictures are used on the Atari ST. parameters: -spcc - SPECTRUM 512 UNCOMPRESSED (SPU) extention: .spu origin/purpose: Spectrum 512 pictures are used on the Atari ST. Three 16-color palettes per line are used. parameters: -spcu - SPEECH BASIC extention: .prg origin/purpose: Speech Basic is a Basic dialect used on the C64. The C64 stores the source code in a binary format but GDV can reconstruct and display it. parameters: -spba - SQUEEZE extention: .sqz, .exe origin/purpose: Squeeze is a file archiver by Jonas I. Hammarberg compliance: Self-extracting files are supported! parameters: -sqz - SQUEEZED FILES extention: .?q? origin/purpose: SQ is a compression program by Richard Greenlaw. It used to be very popular on PCs until ARC appeared. SQ files can also be created by SQPC (Vernon D. Buerg), Squeezer (Steve Freeman and others) and XSQ (Omen Technology). parameters: -sq - STRIP BLACKJACK / STRIPOID DATA extention: .sbj, .spd origin/purpose: Graphical image data used by the MS Windows games Strip BlackJack and Stripoid. parameters: -tzbs - STUFF-IT extention: .sit, .sea origin/purpose: Stuff-It is a file archiver for Macintosh computers. compliance: Some files are not read correctly because I do not have any accurate information of the format. Self- extracting archives are NOT supported. parameters: -sit - SUN ICON extention: .icon, .ico origin/purpose: This format is used on Sun workstations to store icons. parameters: -sico - SUN RASTER extention: .ras, .rast, .sun, .scr, .sr, .im1, .im8, .im24, .im32 origin/purpose: A graphical image format used on Sun computers. compliance: Image types 0, 1 and 2 are supported. parameters: -sras - SUN/NEXT AUDIO (AU) extention: .au origin/purpose: The .au format is a sound sample format used on Sun and NeXT computers. compliance: All common sample types should work (incl. ulaw, pcm-8, pcm-16, ulaw, alaw). parameters: -au - SWAG COMPRESSED ARCHIVE extention: .swg origin/purpose: The SourceWare Archival Group (SWAG) publishes free Pascal source packages. The data is stored in .SWG files. (Note that you can only look at the directory with GD View, not at the actual source data). parameters: -lha - SYSTEM DATA FORMAT (SDF) extention: .sdf name: The abbreviation is SDF. origin/purpose: A portable way of storing databases. parameters: -sdf - T.61-7BIT TEXT extention: txt, doc name: Also known as ISO-IR-102. parameters: -text -txtcs:215 - T64 extention: .t64 origin/purpose: A format used by the C64S emulator to store the contents of Commodore 64 tapes. parameters: -t64 - TEMPRA FLX extention: .flx origin/purpose: An extention of the FLIC format for HiColor images. FLX files do not use the Autodesk Animator FLH chunks. parameters: -flic - TGA extention: .tga, .icb, .vda, .vst, .win name: A lot of people call it the "Targa" format. origin/purpose: First used with the Truevision Targa video card. compliance: Only non-interlaced images are supported. parameters: -tga - THE FONT EDITOR FONT extention: .chs origin/purpose: Font files created with The Font Editor. parameters: -tfef - THE GRAPHICS ENGINE FONT extention: .fnt origin/purpose: Font files used by TGE (The Graphics Engine), a graphics library for MS DOS by Matthew Hildebrand. parameters: -tgef - THE LAST VIDEO INTERFACE (LVI) DATA STREAM origin/purpose: Text files which contain color codes. Used by BBS systems. parameters: -lvi - TIFF extention: .tif, .tiff, .ctf, .icn, .tim, .tig, .tic origin/purpose: The TIFF format is a very popular format developed by Aldus. It is used by Desktop Publishing programs, Scanner software, Fax Software and other graphic programs. The TIFF format is very popular on IBM PCs, Macintosh and NeXT computers. compliance: The TIFF format is very complex. GDV cannot display all TIFF files (a program which can display all of them properly probably doesn't exist). Neither CCITT fax nor JPEG compression is supported. Unfortunately, a lot of programs write bad TIFF files. parameters: -tiff - TINY extention: .tny, .tn1, .tn2, .tn3 origin/purpose: Tiny used to be a popular file format on Atari ST computers. parameters: -tiny - TOTOSAMPLER extention: .smp origin/purpose: Totosampler is a sound sampler for the Atari ST/STE/TT written by Torsten Thiel. compliance: Although Totosampler files have a kind of header GD View cannot recognize them. Use the parameter. parameters: -ttsm - TTY name: TTY stands for TeleTYpe terminal. origin/purpose: Used for terminal data, e.g. capture files of bulletin board system or telnet sessions. parameters: -tty - TURTLE BASIC extention: .prg origin/purpose: Turtle Basic is a BASIC dialect for the VIC-20. The source code is stored in a binary format but GDV can reconstruct the BASIC source code. parameters: -tuba - TZ STRIP POKER extention: .stp origin/purpose: Used by the MS Windows game TZ Strip Poker. parameters: -tzsp - UTF-8 origin/purpose: UTF-8 is a so-called UCS transformation format. Unicode characters (which are 16/32 bit wide) are encoded into 8 bit values which can be stored and processed more easily on some systems. parameters: -utf8 - UU-ENCODED DATA extention: .uue, .uua origin/purpose: Files which contain the 7-bit representation of 8-bit binary data. Often used on Usenet and Internet. GD View decodes the file and writes the binary data to disk. compliance: Multi-part messages are not supported. parameters: -uue - VIDCOM 64 origin/purpose: A graphic file format used on the C64. compliance: GD View assumes that all files contain multi-color images. parameters: -vc64 - VIS extention: .vis origin/purpose: An image format developed at the MIT AI lab. compliance: Floating point images are not supported (they are machine dependent). For raster images the "visr" file type has to be used. parameters: -vis -visr - VOICEMASTER extention: .vmd origin/purpose: A headerless sound sample format used with Covox SpeechThing/VoiceMaster. compliance: VMD files do not contain information about the sample rate! The "-ds_r" parameter might have to be used to set the correct sample rate. parameters: -rsub - WILDCAT 3.0+ COLOR CODE TEXT extention: .bbs origin/purpose: Text files which contain color codes and other codes. Used by the WildCat BBS system. compliance: All color codes and nearly all other codes are interpreted properly. Embedded ANSI codes are not supported. The blink attribute is not supported. parameters: -wcat - WORDPERFECT 7-BIT TRANSFER FORMAT origin/purpose: Files which can be transfered without losing information when the 7th bit is lost. GD View creates the decoded file. parameters: -wp7b - WORDPERFECT extention: .wp, .doc, .wp5, .wp6, .wpd origin/purpose: The document format used by the popular word processor WordPerfect (originally by WordPerfect Corporation, now by Corel). WordPerfect is used on MS DOS, Windows, VAX and UNIX systems. compliance: Tested with WordPerfect 4.2, 5.1 and 6.0 files. Only the standard text elements are shown (unformatted). parameters: -wpft - WORDSTAR 2000 origin/purpose: The format used by the WordStar 2000. compliance: Tested with WordStar 2000 1.0 and 3.0 files. The text is shown without any formatting. - WORDSTAR extention: .doc, .ws, .ws7, etc. origin/purpose: The format used by the popular word processor WordStar. compliance: Tested with WordStar 3.3 files. The text is shown without any formatting. Note: Autodetection is often not possible! parameters: -wdst - WWIV COLOR CODE TEXT origin/purpose: Text files which contain color codes. Used by the WWIV BBS system and by VBBS. compliance: All color codes are interpreted properly. The blink attribute is not supported. parameters: -wwiv - X BITMAP (XBM) extention: .xbm origin/purpose: Used by X Windows. compliance: All standard images should work (X10 and X11). Complete syntax checking is not performed. Only the first image is shown in multi-image files. parameters: -xbm - X PUZZLE extention: .puzzle, .pzl, .cm origin/purpose: This format is used by the Puzzle program which is distributed with X. parameters: -xpzl - XIMG extention: .img origin/purpose: This is an extended version of the GEM image format. It is used on Atari ST computers to store color images. compliance: Only RGB color maps are supported. parameters: -gimg - XX-ENCODED DATA extention: .xxe origin/purpose: Files which contain the 7-bit representation of 8-bit binary data. GD View decodes the file and writes the binary data to disk. compliance: Multi-part messages are not supported. parameters: -xxe - XYWRITE origin/purpose: A document format used by XyWrite. compliance: Only plain text is shown. Auto-detection is not possible. parameters: -xywr - YBM extention: .ybm origin/purpose: The YBM format is used by Bennet Yee's "face" program. parameters: -ybm - YELLOWPOINT DISK SET origin/purpose: The YellowPoint CDs are very famous Pay CDs. compliance: Only files which are NOT ENCRYPTED are supported! I did not have any information on the format so the code is based on information obtained through analyzing. parameters: -ypd - YUV extention: .yuv origin/purpose: YUV files are used by the Berkeley MPEG software. compliance: YUV files do not contain any information about the image dimensions. That means that the "-x" and "-y" parameters have to be used, e.g. to look at a 640x480 YUV you have to use "gdv filename -x:640 -y:480". parameters: -yuv -x:n -y:n - ZIP extention: .zip, .exe, .qwk origin/purpose: ZIP is a very popular file archive format which was originally used by PKWare's PKZip. ZIP files are created by PKZip, ZIP (InfoZIP), WinZip (Nico Mak Computing), Drag And Zip (Canyon Software), FPZIP for Windows (FlashPoint), FZIP (GroupWare), NCZip (Symantec), QZip (Micheal Leavitt), Shrink (R. P. Byrne), ZipIt (Tommy Brown), ZipShell Pro (NewVision), MHG*Zip (MHG Software Ltd.) and PAK (NoGate Consulting). compliance: Most MS DOS self-extracting archives are supported. parameters: -zip - ZOO extention: .zoo origin/purpose: ZOO is a file archiver by Rahul Dhesi which is used on MS DOS, OS/2 and UNIX systems. parameters: -zoo - ZX SPECTRUM BIG FONT extention: .bft origin/purpose: A font file format used on the ZX Spectrum. It was developed by "Mr.UNIVERSUM". parameters: -bft - ZX SPECTRUM SCREEN extention: .scr origin/purpose: These are raw ZX Spectrum video memory images. parameters: -zxss - ZX SPECTRUM SNAPSHOT (SNA) extention: .sna origin/purpose: SNA files are used by JPP, a ZX Spectrum emulator for DOS and now also by many other ZX Spectrum emulators. The Snapshot files contain a complete "snapshot" of the machines state. The memory and registers are saved. GD View displays the contents of the video memory. parameters: -sna - ZX SPECTRUM STANDARD FONT extention: .sft origin/purpose: A font file format used on the ZX Spectrum. It was developed by "Mr.UNIVERSUM". parameters: -sft ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7. MISCELLANEOUS QUESTIONS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This section is in a Question and Answer form (like an Internet FAQ list). Q: I let SETUP auto-configure my VESA modes but when I look at a graphic file all I see is a blank screen / I get some kind of "scan range" error message. A: This usually happens when your VESA driver claims that certain modes are supported although they actually aren't, often because your monitor is unable to handle them. If you have got the correct software you can reconfigure your VESA driver or your graphic card. If you are an advanced computer user you can also try to edit the screen.cfg file in the GD View directory (note that you must have completed the VESA auto-configuration in SETUP in order to do this). Use GD View to look at the graphic file you were having problems with. When the blank screen or the error message appears press F2 to see which graphic mode was being used. Exit GD View and remove the line for that mode in SCREEN.CFG. Keep repeating the process until you are able to look at the graphic file. Q: GDV does not accept file names which start with "-"! A: That's because the dash character is used to specify parameters. Use ".\" before the filename, e.g. for a file called "-test.doc" call gdv with "GDV .\-test.doc". Q: I want to use GDV to look at directories but when I enter something like "GDV A:" then GDV just displays some information about the drive! A: Add a "." to the drive name: instead of "GDV A:" you have to use "GDV A:.". Q: Reading larger directories takes extremely long! A: You are probably running GD View without EMS or XMS. As stated in the system requirements section you must have some free expanded or extended memory. Well, anyway, GD View DOES run without it but as you have noticed it is really slow. In fact, systems which run without EMS or XMS usually do not have a disk cache so the whole process becomes even slower. You can improve the performance a lot by selecting that you want an unsorted file list (press CTRL-F7 in the directory viewer). The best thing to do is of course to install an EMS or XMS driver. Q: I read a lot of non-English texts on my PC but some of the accented characters and other special characters don't appear properly when I look at Amiga/Windows/Mac/etc. texts! A: You have to select the correct character set. Press ALT-C when you are in the text viewer and select the right one. For Amiga texts you can use "ISO 8859/1". If you have you have already selected the right one then the problem might have another reason. GD View reads your file properly but unfortunately it cannot display all characters because only characters which are in the local character set can be displayed. And in some cases GD View doesn't support all characters of the local character set. Q: I used GD View to search for a string but GD View didn't find it although I could see it on the screen! What am I doing wrong? A: GD View doesn't find strings unless they are a perfect match. The string which you saw on the screen probably contained some kind of invisible control codes (e.g. backspaces). Q: Unicode files produced by GD View are bad! A: Some programs, such as Windows NT's NotePad do not support the use of "U2028" as the newline character although that is the Unicode line seperator code. This is not a bug in GD View. Q: I've got some raw graphical images? How do I display them? A: If you are specifying the file name on the command line then just add "-rgi" to the command. If you are using the directory viewer then press Shift-F3 instead of F3 and enter "rgi". After that you will be prompted for the image parameters. Q: GDV aborts and just says that a "JPEG error" occured. What is that supposed to mean? A: This can have a lot of reasons. This happens, for example, when: - there is too little free base memory - there is too little free harddisk space - the JPEG file has an error (the file is bad) - the JPEG file is not JFIF compatible Q: GDV can't play FLI files created by HCMAKE! A: FLI files created by HCMAKE are not real FLI files. As far as I know HCPLAY is the only program which can play those files. Q: Sound files seem to be "hacked up"! A: 1. Try using a faster storage medium, for example if the files are on CD-ROM or floppy disks then copy them to your harddisk. 2. If there is too little free base memory then GD View only uses one buffer. Free more base memory! 3. The sample quality is too high (the higher the sample quality the more data has to be processed per second). Try using a sound program to reduce the quality of the sound file. Q: How did you make GD View? A: GD View is written in C++. It's not that easy to say when I started working on the code because I started working on GD View in this form in January 1996 but some of the code is based on or identical to code in older projects of mine (the oldest ones are from 1993). Q: The system info routines really should display some information about ! A: I never finished translating my old system information program from Pascal to C++ and I guess I never will. I don't really want to work on those routines any more. Q: I have found a bug which is not mentioned in the manual! What should I do? A: First of all, I already know about the following bugs: - sometimes when you start the cd player it seems to hang until you eject the cd - occasionally, scrolling will not work as expected with some text files - damaged/corrupted files can cause problems If you find other bugs then contact me and explain what happens, when it happens and what configuration you use (everything as detailed as possible). My mail addresses are in listed in section 8 of this manual. I will try to solve the problem but naturally I cannot promise anything. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8. CONTACTING THE AUTHOR ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Gerard de Melo Internet e-mail: gdm@bitsmart.com or gdemelo@writeme.com Internet WWW page: http://www.bitsmart.com/gdm/ or http://home.pages.de/~gdemelo/ Mail: Gerard de Melo Heidestr. 156 60385 Frankfurt Germany Before contacting me about problems with GD View make sure that you have read this manual properly especially the Frequently Asked Questions section, and if possible also check out my home page for the latest news. I will try to answer all e-mails (use "GDV" as the subject). If there seem to be problems with the e-mail address then check out my home page to see if it has changed. I cannot answer normal postal mail unless you send me 2 US dollars or 3 DM (German Marks) for the postage fee. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 9. CREDITS AND GREETINGS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The JPEG code used by GD View is based on the work of the Independent JPEG Group. This product uses the SPAWNO routines by Ralf Brown to minimize memory use while shelling to DOS and running other programs. A lot of information on character sets was obtained from the RFC1345 document by Keld Simonsen. Misc. information was obtained from the famous interrupt list by Ralph Brown. Thanks to: > my family > Tobias Roth, Eneldo Loza Mencia and Rodney D'Silva > all registered users!