ReadMe File for
Mcg2Bmp (C) Version 1.0
CopyLeft Bill Buckels 1999
All Rights Reversed.

Introduction
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Mcg2Bmp is a Graphics Utility program that is used to convert "Old
Style" 256 Color Graphics Files to Windows .BMP files. It is one of a
collection of utilities that are currently available from the author to
assist users of his educational software to customize and manage
graphics used by his programs.

This utility will allow you to convert MCGA (320 x 200 x 256 Color VGA
format) screen dump files of either a BASIC BSAVED IMAGE (.MCG) File or
a ZSOFT 256 Color .PCX File to a 320 x 200 x 256 color Windows .BMP
file, suitable for use with WorkBook Version 2.1 and greater, as well as
many other programs that accept .BMP files.

Windows .BMP support is a BIG Plus for folks who want to make new
pictures for WorkBook in Windows Paint and Build Their own lesson plans.
With MCG2BMP, you can convert 320 x 200 x 256 Color .PCX and .MCG
Picture Files into .BMP files that can be loaded and customized in Paint
Programs that accept .BMP files (like Windows Paint). (You can convert
all the .PCX files that are currently used by WorkBook into .BMP files
by using MCG2BMP.)

Installing Mcg2Bmp
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Mcg2Bmp is part of the WorkBook Utilities Toolkit Core Collection
(called "WorkTools"), and is installed with WorkTools from the Archive
file, WrkToo20.Zip.

Install Mcg2Bmp by "UNZIPPING" WrkToo20.ZIP complete with pathnames to
the drive of your choice. If you decide to install WorkTools to Drive
C:, Mcg2Bmp will be installed into the directory C:\WorkTool\Mcg2Bmp.

Mcg2Bmp is a Dos command line utility, and must be run in DOS, or from a
"DOS box" in Windows. To run Mcg2Bmp in DOS, type Mcg2Bmp.EXE and press
[Enter]. This will display usage help.

Command Line Usage
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Mcg2Bmp MyMCGA.PCX
Mcg2Bmp MyMCGA.MCG

Output will be MyMCGA.BMP, equivalent to the source .PCX or .MCG file.

Licence Agreement, Copyright and Conditions of Use
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Mcg2Bmp and its associated files are Copyrighted by their author, Bill
Buckels. Mcg2Bmp is not a derivative work of any other author and is the
exclusive property of its author, Bill Buckels.

You have a royalty-free right to use, modify, reproduce and distribute
this program and its source code in any way you find useful, provided
that you agree that Bill Buckels has no warranty obligations or
liability resulting from said distribution in any way whatsoever, and
provided you do not use this program to compete with Bill Buckels or his
agents in any way. If you don't agree, remove this program, and its
source code from your computer now.

If you redistribute the Mcg2Bmp program, please distribute it in its
entirety, with source code and this ReadMe. If you are missing files,
you can get a complete version of Mcg2Bmp by donloading the latest
version of WorkTools.Zip from the internet at:

http://www.escape.ca/~bbuckels/kidstuff

Bill Buckels
589 Oxford Street
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3M 3J2

Email: bbuckels@escape.ca
WebSite: http:www.escape.ca/~bbuckels

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