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V8Power Tools for DOS examples
Copyright 2016 Jerome Shidel
Released under GPL v2.0 License.
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This Directory contains some basic techniques and examples for using the
V8Power Tools.

The V8Power Tools must be present in your PATH environment variable or located
in the same directory as these examples to use them.

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Example 0 (EX00.BAT)

Simple test to see if V8Power Tools are installed.

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Example 1 (EX01.BAT)

Simple test to determine if the batch file is running under DOSBox or other
versions of DOS that don't support "set /p".

DOSBox does not support I/O redirection at present.  This is not a limitation
of V8PT. But, it is to be noted that DOSBox does not support it. Therefore,
batch files that run on DOSBox must work around this limitation. Things like
querying the current cursor shape with "vcursor /q" will function, but there
is now way to save it's output. See Example 2 for a workaround to this issue.

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Example 2 (EX02.BAT)

Hiding and restoring the cursor.

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Example 3 (EX03.BAT)

Simple application style screen drawing with a delay and cleared screen on
exit.

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Example 4 (EX04.BAT)

Simple pause with timeout example.

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Example 5 (EX05.BAT)

Simple choice box with intentional to many choices that returns errorlevel
of selected choice. Please note that under DOSBox or under FreeDOS without
a memory manager installed, choices with multiple colors are flattened to
to a single color.

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Example 6 (EX06.BAT)

Simple choice box that returns the text of the selected choice to stdout. Will
not work under DOSBox.

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Example 7 (EX07.BAT)

Simple vmath example of counting to 10. Will not work under DOSBox.

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Example 8 (EX08.BAT)

Progress bar updating and multi-window example. Will not work under DOSBox.

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Example 9 (EX09.BAT)

Non-windowed hard disk drive status scanning example with Progress bar.
Will not work under DOSBox.

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Example 10 (EX10.BAT)

Choice Polling example.

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Example 11 (EX11.BAT)

Video and vesa mode demo.

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Example 12 (EX10.BAT)

Portable string lookups and language translations with vecho. Should work
in nearly all versions of DOS as long as V8Power Tools are present.
