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GD VIEW V0.92
Copyright (c) 1996-98 Gerard de Melo
User Manual
--------------------------------------------------------------------------TABLE OF CONTENTS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
Introduction
Legal Issues (important!)
Configuration Issues
Overview: List of the supported file types
Using GD View
The supported file types
Miscellaneous questions
Contacting the author
Credits and Greetings
--------------------------------------------------------------------------1. INTRODUCTION
--------------------------------------------------------------------------GD View (GDV) is an object-oriented viewer which lets you look
the
contents of files (and other objects) while supporting a lot of
formats.
See section 3 for a list of all supported file types.
at
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
(LICENSE.DOC)
**before** you do anything with GD View.
agreement
[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
the
respective trademark owners.
trademarked
names are
trademarks of
--------------------------------------------------------------------------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 "Autoconfigure
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
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1122 (Estonia - EBCDIC) text
1123 text
1124 text
1250 (MS Windows Eastern Europe) text
1251 (MS Windows Cyrillic) text
1252 (MS Windows ANSI) text
1253 (MS Windows Greek) text
1254 (MS Windows Turkish) text
1255 text
1256 text
1257 text
1258 (MS Windows Vietnamese) text
1275 (Apple Latin 1) text
1276 (Adobe PS Standard Encoding) text
1277 (Adobe PS ISOLatin1 Encoding) text
1280 (Apple Greece) text
1281 (Apple Turkey) text
1282 (Apple Central European) text
1283 (Apple Cyrillic) text
256 text
259 (Symbols WP - EBCDIC) text
273 text
274 text
275 text
277 text
278 text
280 text
282 text
284 text
285 text
290 text
293 (APL - EBCDIC) text
297 text
361 (International - Publishing) text
363 (Symbols - Publishing) text
367 (G0 - ASCII) text
382 (Austria, Germany - Publishing) text
383 (Belgium - Publishing) text
385 (Canada (French) - Publishing) text
386 (Denmark, Norway - Publishing) text
387 (Finland, Sweden - Publishing) text
388 (France - Publishing) text
389 (Italy - Publishing) text
391 (Portugal - Publishing) text
392 (Spain - Publishing) text
393 (Latin America - Publishing) text
394 (United Kingdom - Publishing) text
395 (United States - Publishing) text
420 text
423 text
424 text
437 (USA) text
500 (EBCDIC) text
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,
for
example:
you can just specify a file name on the command line,
C:\GDV>GDV C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Please refer to your DOS manual
path
names.
for more
information
on file and
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
ALT-5
ALT-6
ALT-J
CTRL-N
Tab
> TEXT VIEWER <
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PgUp, PgDn
+, Left, Right
(, )
Home, End
Ctrl-Left, Ctrl-Right
Ins, Del
ALT-L
ALT-G
ALT-P
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\
Ctrl-L
ALT-C
ALT-H
ALT-X, ESC
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O
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1..9, 0
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N
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ALT-D
ALT-W
normal file archive information
technical file archive information
normal and technical file archive information
Jump to DOS
use different type of file name case changing
reload directory
move up/down
move on page up/down
move 20 pages up/down
move 20 columns left/right
move one column left/right
go to top/bottom
move to begin/end of line
move one printed page up/down
select a line
select a page
select a printed page
case-sensitive search
case-insensitive search
search again
SELECT CHARACTER SET
toggle Hex/Dec/Bin/Oct mode
exit
toggle line wrap mode
toggle file offset display
set bookmark 1-10
go to bookmark 1-10
change tab width
toggle text direction (left-to-right or
right-to-left)
toggle isolated CR interpretation (useful for
some text files which are intended to be
printed)
map 8-bit to 7-bit chars [only possible with
7-bit character sets]
toggle endianness (for 16-bit character sets)
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)
ignore trailing end-of-file markers
write to file (character set conversion!)
write to ISO 10646 file
> GRAPHICAL IMAGE VIEWER <
---------------------Enter
display next image (only when file selected in
directory viewer)
Space
redraw
F2
F3
Up, Dn
Left, Right
PgUp, PgDn
Ctrl-Left, Ctrl-Right
Home, End
Tab
Shift-Up
Shift-Down
Shift-Right
Shift-Left
+, -
display image information
display palette (not possible with TrueColor
images)
scroll half a screen up/down
scroll half a screen left/right
scroll one screen up/down
scroll one screen left/right
go to top/bottom
reset brightness, contrast, high intensity
filter
increase brightness (not possible with
TrueColor images)
reduce brightness (not possible with TrueColor
images)
more contrast (not possible with TrueColor
images)
less contrast (not possible with TrueColor
images)
control high intensity filter (not possible
with TrueColor images)
> TERMINAL EMULATOR <
----------------ALT-X
ALT-B
Home, End
Up, Down
PgUp, PgDn
exit
toggle scroll-back mode
move to top/bottom (in scroll-back mode)
move up/down (in scroll-back mode)
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
compliance:
parameters:
- AIKEN BCD
origin/purpose:
famous painting program for the C64.
Only Advanced Art Studio files are supported. The
original Art Studio format is not supported.
-aast
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
parameters:
- AMG
extention:
origin/purpose:
compliance:
parameters:
- AMIGAGUIDE
extention:
origin/purpose:
compliance:
(unformatted).
parameters:
- ANSI MUSIC
extention:
origin/purpose:
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.
-alia
.amg, .exe
AMG is a file archiver by Milen Georgiev.
Self-extracting files are supported, too!
-amg
.gui, .guide
A popular hypertext format used on Amigas.
Only standard text elements are shown
-agui
.ans
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:
parameters:
- APPLE II TEXT
origin/purpose:
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.
-x364
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:
- BINARY DISPLAY
origin/purpose:
parameters:
- BLAZING PADDLES
extention:
origin/purpose:
parameters:
- BOO ENCODED DATA
extention:
origin/purpose:
parameters:
- BS 4730 TEXT
extention:
name:
origin/purpose:
parameters:
- BS VIEWDATA TEXT
extention:
name:
parameters:
- BTOA
extention:
name:
origin/purpose:
-text -txtcs:14
This mode can be used for binary files. It can be
combined with most character sets.
-text -txtbin
.bp
A graphic file format used on the C64.
-blpd
.boo
Files which contain the 7-bit representation of
8-bit binary data. GD View decodes the file and
writes the binary data to disk.
-boo
txt, doc
Also known as ISO 646-GB and ISO-IR-4.
The British 7-bit version of ASCII.
-text -txtcs:176
txt, doc
Also known as ISO-IR-47.
-text -txtcs:191
.b2a
BTOA stands for "binary to ascii".
BTOA is a UNIX program which converts binary data
to
parameters:
- CAESAR
origin/purpose:
parameters:
- CBM ARC
extention:
origin/purpose:
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).
-btoa
Caesar encrypted files are text files which were
encrypted using an extremely simple algorithm.
GD View creates the decrypted file.
-csar
.arc, .sda
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:
origin/purpose:
parameters:
- CMU WM RASTER
extention:
origin/purpose:
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
.cdu
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.
-cdu
.cmu, .cmuwm
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.
-cdrw
FORMAT
.bm
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
parameters:
- CRAIG BRUCE'S BM
extention:
origin/purpose:
- 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
compliance:
parameters:
- CRUNCH
origin/purpose:
parameters:
- CRUSH
extention:
origin/purpose:
used
-
-
-
-
Crunch is a file compression program.
-crn
.cru, .cri
Crush is a file archiver by PocketWare which is
together with other compressing file archivers.
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
compliance:
-
of the Sound Blaster sound card family.
All common sample types should work. Silences and
loops are ignored.
-cvoc
- 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:
origin/purpose:
parameters:
- DESCENT .HOG
extention:
origin/purpose:
Parallax
.pc1, .pc2, .pc3
Degas Elite is a painting program used on Atari ST
computers.
-dgec
.hog
HOG files are used by Descent, a 3d game by
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:
parameters:
- HYPER
extention:
origin/purpose:
Only version 4 is supported.
-hsir
.hyp, .exe
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.
-im
parameters:
- 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
microchips. 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:
- KOALA PAINTER
extention:
origin/purpose:
parameters:
- KOI-8R TEXT
extention:
parameters:
- KSC 5636 TEXT
extention:
name:
parameters:
- LARC
extention:
origin/purpose:
-
-
-
-
-
-text -txtcs:228
.koa
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.
-koa
txt, doc
-text -txtcs:240
txt, doc
Also known as ISO 646-KR.
-text -txtcs:241
.lzs, .com
LARC is a Japanese file archiver by K. Miki, H.
Okumura and K. Masuyama.
Self-extracting archives are supported, too!
-lha
compliance:
parameters:
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
compliance:
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.
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:
origin/purpose:
.prg
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. Selfextracting archives are NOT supported.
parameters:
-sit
- SUN ICON
extention:
origin/purpose:
parameters:
- SUN RASTER
extention:
.icon, .ico
This format is used on Sun workstations to store
icons.
-sico
.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:
- UTF-8
origin/purpose:
parameters:
- UU-ENCODED DATA
extention:
origin/purpose:
compliance:
parameters:
- VIDCOM 64
origin/purpose:
compliance:
parameters:
- VIS
extention:
origin/purpose:
compliance:
parameters:
- VOICEMASTER
extention:
origin/purpose:
-tzsp
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.
-utf8
.uue, .uua
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.
Multi-part messages are not supported.
-uue
A graphic file format used on the C64.
GD View assumes that all files contain multi-color
images.
-vc64
.vis
An image format developed at the MIT AI lab.
Floating point images are not supported (they
are machine dependent).
For raster images the "visr" file type has to be
used.
-vis
-visr
.vmd
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
compliance:
Corporation, now by Corel). WordPerfect is used on
MS DOS, Windows, VAX and UNIX systems.
Tested with WordPerfect 4.2, 5.1 and 6.0 files.
Only
parameters:
- WORDSTAR 2000
origin/purpose:
compliance:
- WORDSTAR
extention:
origin/purpose:
compliance:
the standard text elements are shown (unformatted).
-wpft
The format used by the WordStar 2000.
Tested with WordStar 2000 1.0 and 3.0 files. The
text is shown without any formatting.
.doc, .ws, .ws7, etc.
The format used by the popular word processor
WordStar.
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:
compliance:
parameters:
- YBM
extention:
origin/purpose:
-
-
-
-
-
-
-
A document format used by XyWrite.
Only plain text is shown. Auto-detection is not
possible.
-xywr
.ybm
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
A: GD View
working
form in
to code
you make GD View?
is written in C++. It's not that easy to say when I started
on the code because I started working on GD View in this
January 1996 but some of the code is based on or identical
in older projects of mine (the oldest ones are from 1993).
Q: The system info routines really should display some information
about <something>!
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:
Internet e-mail:
Gerard de Melo
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!