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Viewer utility (for pics and .VTs)

Viewer utility (for pics and .VTs)

alt.ascii-art · 2 messages · 9 May 1994 - 10 May 1994
W Towle <csz...@scs.leeds.ac.uk> ASCII art 9 May 1994 20:28 · permalink · report 
Here is version 1.2 of my (unix) viewer utility, vu. It can now
handle multiple files, and each file can have a unique combination
of vu's operations on it (count height & width on/off, delays during
file display, show file on/off). Vu can also now have text piped
into it.
  Vu will probably need some amendments (to the pipe handling,
principally) if you wish to compile it for use on a PC. It might
even require the files to be converted to DOS text format.....

::::::
:: William "Wills" Towle :  csz...@scs.leeds.ac.uk (csz...@gps.leeds.ac.uk)
::    "Keyboard not responding. Press ENTER to continue" - PC error message

  Here is the C source code; just cut-and-paste.
-----x8-----start vu.c-----
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <getopt.h>

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define WAIT 500
typedef enum {FALSE,TRUE} bool;


/* Couple of global variables (yuk!)
 */
char escBuf[10];
int escBufPos;
extern char* optarg;
extern int optind;

char tempFile[30];

void ifbodge(int arg,int args)
{
	if (arg==args)
	{
	    printf ("%s\n", "vu: Missing filename(s)");
	    exit(0);
	}
}

void do_cposch(int* lines, int* width, int* lwidth)
{
 int nwidth,eBpos;

	eBpos = 0;
	while (isdigit(escBuf[eBpos])) eBpos++;
	if (escBuf[eBpos] == ';')
	{
	    eBpos++;
	    nwidth = 0;
	    while (isdigit(escBuf[eBpos]))
	    {
		nwidth = ((nwidth)*10) + (escBuf[eBpos]-'0');
		eBpos++;
	    }
	    nwidth--;
	    *lwidth = nwidth;
	    if (nwidth>*width) *width = nwidth;
	}
}

/* Unused... results not constant w.r.t usec variable */
void delay(int usec)
{
  struct timeval timeout;

	if(usec == 0) 
	    return;
	timeout.tv_sec = usec / 1000000;
	timeout.tv_usec = usec;
	select(1, NULL, NULL, NULL, &timeout);
}



void readfile(char* name, bool isTTY, bool count, bool list, int pause)
{
  FILE* inFile;
  char byte;
  bool openFail,escape,escOSB /* ESCAPE OPEN-SQUARE-BRACKET */;
  int lines,width,lwidth,i;

	if (isTTY)
	    system ("stty -echo");

	openFail = FALSE;
if (count)
	if ( (inFile = fopen(name,"rb")) == NULL )
	{
	    printf ("%s %s\n", "vu: Can't open file", name);
	    openFail = TRUE;
	}
	else
	{
	    lines = 0; width = 0; lwidth = 0;
	    while (fread(&byte,sizeof(char),1,inFile))
	    {
		switch (byte)
		{
		case 9: /* tab */
		    if (!escape)
		    {
			while ( lwidth%8 ) lwidth++;
			if ( (lwidth) > width) width = lwidth;
			break;
		    }
		case 10: /* newline */
		    escape = FALSE;
		    lines++; lwidth = 0;
		    break;
		case 27: /* escape */
		    escape = TRUE;
		    fread(&byte,sizeof(char),1,inFile);
		    if (byte='[')
			escOSB = TRUE;
		    else
			escOSB = FALSE;
		    break;
		default:
		    if (!escape)
		    {
			if ( (++lwidth) > width) width = lwidth;
		    }
		    else
		    {
			if (escBufPos<=10)
			{
			    escBuf[escBufPos] = byte;
			    escBufPos++;
			}
			if (escOSB && isalpha(byte))
			{
			    escape = FALSE;
			    if ( (byte=='H') || (byte == 'f') )
				do_cposch(&lines,&width,&lwidth);
			}
			if (!escOSB && isdigit(byte)) escape = FALSE;
		    }
		}
	    } /* end of file. */
	    printf ("----- vu: file stats\n");
	    printf ("File : %s\n", name);
	    printf ("Width: %d\n", width);
	    printf ("Lines: %d\n", lines);
	    printf ("-----\n");
	    if (list && count && isTTY)
	    {
		printf ("(RETURN:)");
		do {scanf("%c",&byte);} while (byte!=10);
		printf ("\n");
	    }
	}

if (list && !openFail)
	if ( (inFile = fopen(name,"rb")) == NULL )
	{
	    printf ("%s %s\n", "vu: Can't open file", name);
	}
	else
	{
	    lines = 0; width = 0; lwidth = 0;
	    while (fread(&byte,sizeof(char),1,inFile))
	    {
		switch (byte)
		{
		case 9: /* tab */
		    printf ("\t");
		    break;
		case 10: /* newline */
		    printf ("\n");
		    break;
		default:
		    printf ("%c", byte);
		    break;
		}
		for (i = 0; i<pause*WAIT; i++);
	    } /* end of file. */
	}

	if (isTTY)
	    system ("stty echo");
}

void read_stdin()
{
  char byte;
  FILE *outFile;

	strcpy(tempFile,tempnam("/tmp/", "vu"));
        outFile = fopen(tempFile, "wb");
	while (fread(&byte,sizeof(char),1,stdin))
	{
	    fwrite(&byte,sizeof(char),1,outFile);
	} /* end of file. */
	fclose(outFile);
}


void main(int argc,char** argv)
{
/* Option variables */
  int arg,i,pause;
  bool list=TRUE, count=TRUE;

	if (argc == 1)
	{
	    printf ("%s\n%s %s %s\n",
		"vu (v1.2) -- by Wm.Towle",
		"Usage:", argv[0], "[options] < filename | - > [...]");
	    printf ("\n%s\n\t%s\n\t%s\n\t%s\n\t%s\n%s\n",
		"Options are:",
		"-c (-C) : dont (do) work out file size (default: do)",
		"-d <n>  : add delay, duration n",
		"-l (-L) : dont (do) list the actual file (default: do)",
		"-D      : use default options (-C -L -d 0)",
		"Use - on command line to read from a pipe");
	    exit(0);
	}

	while (optind<argc)
	{
	    while ( (arg=getopt(argc,argv, "cCd:lL")) != -1 )
		switch (arg)
		{
		case 'c':
		case 'C':
		    count = isupper(arg);
		    ifbodge(optind,argc);
		    break;
		case 'd':
		    i=0; pause=0;
		    while ( isdigit(optarg[i]) )
		    {
			pause = (pause*10) + (optarg[i] - '0');
			i++;
		    }
		    ifbodge(optind,argc);
		    break;
		case 'D':
		    count=TRUE;
		    list=TRUE;
		    pause=0;
		    break;
		case 'l':
		case 'L':
		    list = isupper(arg);
		    ifbodge(optind,argc);
		    break;
		default: printf("%s %d\n","Bad option", optind<argc);
				/* shouldn't see this */
		};

	    if (optind<=argc)
	    {
		if (strcmp(argv[optind],"-")==0)
		{
		    read_stdin();
		    readfile(tempFile, isatty(fileno(stdin)),
					count,list,pause);
		    unlink(tempFile);
		}
		else
		    readfile(argv[optind], FALSE, count,list,pause);
		optind++;
	    }
	}
}
-----x8-----end vu.c-----
  Vu is public domain. No harm should come to your files and
filesystem through its use as a file-to-screen viewer, but I
cannot accept responsibility for loss of files/system damage
caused by careless use.
Wills Towle <csz...@scs.leeds.ac.uk> ASCII art 10 May 1994 09:05 · permalink · report 
Here is the correct version 1.2 of my (unix) viewer utility, vu.
It can now handle multiple files, and each file can have a unique
combination of vu's operations on it (count height & width on/off,
delays during file display, show file on/off). Vu can also now
have text piped into it.
  Vu will probably need some amendments (to the pipe handling,
principally - you may also be missing some .h files, for which I
can tell you what they are for, but otherwise can't help you) if
you wish to compile it for use on a PC. It might even require the
files to be converted to DOS text format.....

::::::
:: William "Wills" Towle :  csz...@scs.leeds.ac.uk (csz...@gps.leeds.ac.uk)
::    "Keyboard not responding. Press ENTER to continue" - PC error message

  Here is the C source code; just cut-and-paste.
-----x8-----start vu.c-----
#include <stdio.h>
#include <ctype.h>
#include <getopt.h>

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <signal.h>
#include <sys/time.h>
#include <unistd.h>

#define WAIT 500
typedef enum {FALSE,TRUE} bool;


/* Couple of global variables (yuk!)
 */
char escBuf[10];
int escBufPos;
extern char* optarg;
extern int optind;

char tempFile[30];

void ifbodge(int arg,int args)
{
	if (arg==args)
	{
	    printf ("%s\n", "vu: Missing filename(s)");
	    exit(0);
	}
}

void do_cposch(int* lines, int* width, int* lwidth)
{
 int nwidth,eBpos;

	eBpos = 0;
	while (isdigit(escBuf[eBpos])) eBpos++;
	if (escBuf[eBpos] == ';')
	{
	    eBpos++;
	    nwidth = 0;
	    while (isdigit(escBuf[eBpos]))
	    {
		nwidth = ((nwidth)*10) + (escBuf[eBpos]-'0');
		eBpos++;
	    }
	    nwidth--;
	    *lwidth = nwidth;
	    if (nwidth>*width) *width = nwidth;
	}
}

/* Unused... results not constant w.r.t usec variable */
void delay(int usec)
{
  struct timeval timeout;

	if(usec == 0) 
	    return;
	timeout.tv_sec = usec / 1000000;
	timeout.tv_usec = usec;
	select(1, NULL, NULL, NULL, &timeout);
}



void readfile(char* name, bool count, bool list, int pause)
{
  FILE* inFile;
  char byte;
  bool openFail,escape,escOSB /* ESCAPE OPEN-SQUARE-BRACKET */;
  int lines,width,lwidth,i;

	if (isatty(fileno(stdin)))
	    system ("stty -echo");

	openFail = FALSE;
if (count)
	if ( (inFile = fopen(name,"rb")) == NULL )
	{
	    printf ("%s %s\n", "vu: Can't open file", name);
	    openFail = TRUE;
	}
	else
	{
	    lines = 0; width = 0; lwidth = 0;
	    while (fread(&byte,sizeof(char),1,inFile))
	    {
		switch (byte)
		{
		case 9: /* tab */
		    if (!escape)
		    {
			while ( lwidth%8 ) lwidth++;
			if ( (lwidth) > width) width = lwidth;
			break;
		    }
		case 10: /* newline */
		    escape = FALSE;
		    lines++; lwidth = 0;
		    break;
		case 27: /* escape */
		    escape = TRUE;
		    fread(&byte,sizeof(char),1,inFile);
		    if (byte='[')
			escOSB = TRUE;
		    else
			escOSB = FALSE;
		    break;
		default:
		    if (!escape)
		    {
			if ( (++lwidth) > width) width = lwidth;
		    }
		    else
		    {
			if (escBufPos<=10)
			{
			    escBuf[escBufPos] = byte;
			    escBufPos++;
			}
			if (escOSB && isalpha(byte))
			{
			    escape = FALSE;
			    if ( (byte=='H') || (byte == 'f') )
				do_cposch(&lines,&width,&lwidth);
			}
			if (!escOSB && isdigit(byte)) escape = FALSE;
		    }
		}
	    } /* end of file. */
	    printf ("----- vu: file stats\n");
	    printf ("File : %s\n", name);
	    printf ("Width: %d\n", width);
	    printf ("Lines: %d\n", lines);
	    printf ("-----\n");
	    if (list && count && isatty(fileno(stdout)))
	    {
		printf ("(RETURN:)");
		do {scanf("%c",&byte);} while (byte!=10);
		printf ("\n");
	    }
	}

if (list && !openFail)
	if ( (inFile = fopen(name,"rb")) == NULL )
	{
	    printf ("%s %s\n", "vu: Can't open file", name);
	}
	else
	{
	    lines = 0; width = 0; lwidth = 0;
	    while (fread(&byte,sizeof(char),1,inFile))
	    {
		switch (byte)
		{
		case 9: /* tab */
		    printf ("\t");
		    break;
		case 10: /* newline */
		    printf ("\n");
		    break;
		default:
		    printf ("%c", byte);
		    break;
		}
		for (i = 0; i<pause*WAIT; i++);
	    } /* end of file. */
	}

	if (isatty(fileno(stdin)))
	    system ("stty echo");
}

void read_stdin()
{
  char byte;
  FILE *outFile;

	strcpy(tempFile,tempnam("/tmp/", "vu"));
        outFile = fopen(tempFile, "wb");
	while (fread(&byte,sizeof(char),1,stdin))
	{
	    fwrite(&byte,sizeof(char),1,outFile);
	} /* end of file. */
	fclose(outFile);
}


void main(int argc,char** argv)
{
/* Option variables */
  int arg,i,pause;
  bool list=TRUE, count=TRUE;

	if (argc == 1)
	{
	    printf ("%s\n%s %s %s\n",
		"vu (v1.2) -- by Wm.Towle",
		"Usage:", argv[0], "[options] < filename | - > [...]");
	    printf ("\n%s\n\t%s\n\t%s\n\t%s\n\t%s\n%s\n",
		"Options are:",
		"-c (-C) : dont (do) work out file size (default: do)",
		"-d <n>  : add delay, duration n",
		"-l (-L) : dont (do) list the actual file (default: do)",
		"-D      : use default options (-C -L -d 0)",
		"Use - on command line to read from a pipe");
	    exit(0);
	}

	while (optind<argc)
	{
	    while ( (arg=getopt(argc,argv, "cCd:DlL")) != -1 )
		switch (arg)
		{
		case 'c':
		case 'C':
		    count = isupper(arg);
		    ifbodge(optind,argc);
		    break;
		case 'd':
		    i=0; pause=0;
		    while ( isdigit(optarg[i]) )
		    {
			pause = (pause*10) + (optarg[i] - '0');
			i++;
		    }
		    ifbodge(optind,argc);
		    break;
		case 'D':
		    count=TRUE;
		    list=TRUE;
		    pause=0;
		    ifbodge(optind,argc);
		    break;
		case 'l':
		case 'L':
		    list = isupper(arg);
		    ifbodge(optind,argc);
		    break;
		default: printf("%s %d\n","Bad option", optind<argc);
				/* shouldn't see this */
		};

	    if (optind<=argc)
	    {
		if (strcmp(argv[optind],"-")==0)
		{
		    read_stdin();
		    readfile(tempFile, count,list,pause);
		    unlink(tempFile);
		}
		else
		    readfile(argv[optind], count,list,pause);
		optind++;
	    }
	}
}
-----x8-----end vu.c-----
  Vu is public domain. No harm should come to your files and
filesystem through its use as a file-to-screen viewer, but I
cannot accept responsibility for loss of files/system damage
caused by careless use.

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