      PRO-SKAN SSTV HELP.                                   FOR VER 2.00 +
			      MAIN SCREEN FUNCTIONS

	      C = CONTROL KEY      A = ALT KEY      S = SHIFT KEY
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      F1  S_WAIT - - - VERTICAL SYNCH WAIT TOGGLE. A RECEIVED PICTURE SIGNAL
		       WILL AUTO-START WHEN RED LIGHT IS ON.
		       WILL AUTO CHANGE MODES IF SIGNAL IS GOOD.
		       YELLOW LIGHT TO CONTROL AUTORESTARTS, IF VISCODE
		       PROPERLY DETECT WHILE RXing PIC, PROSKAN WILL
		       RESTART TO THE TOP RXWindow with new Mode.

      VIS   (V)        STARTS WITH A GOOD VIS CODE ALONG WITH F1 Option
		       WHEN RED LIGHT IS ON.
			THIS IS TO TIGHTENT UP FALSE STARTS.

      F2  USA SC - - - TOGGLE FOR USA OR EUROPEAN SCOTTIE SYNCH. IT WILL BE
		       USA SC, WHEN RED LIGHT IS ON. MOST ARE USING THIS
		       STYLE NOW AND SHOULD BE YOUR DEFULT.
      F3  AUTO THUMS - ON/OFF TOGGLE. AUTO SAVES PICTURES TO THUMBNAIL 
		       BOX'S WHEN RED LIGHT IS ON. ( AT END OF RX PICTURE.)
      F4  AUTO HEADER  WHEN RED IS ON THE HEADER TEXT WILL BE PASTED TO THE
		       TOP OF THE TX PICTURE WHEN TX STARTS, YELLOW LIGHT
		       INDICATES A TRANSPARENT HEADER ( NO GRAY SCALE )

      F5  RX-TM  - - - PUTS RECEIVED PICTURE INTO HIGHLIGHTED THUMB BOX.

      F6 THRU F8 RESERVED.
      F9  SLOCK  - -  SYNCRONIZING LOCK TOGGLE ON/OFF. ON WHEN RED LIGHT
		      IS ON. NORMALLY SET TO OFF. CAN BE TURNED ON FOR A
		      FEW SECONDS TO SYNCHRONIZE AN INCOMMING PICTURE BUT
		      SHOULD BE TURNED OFF AFTER PICTURE IS ALIGNED.
      F10 TX     - -  TRANSMITS PICTURE IN TX SCREEN

      FILES (F)  - -  A FILE SELECTION BOX WILL APPEAR. ESC TO EXIT,
		      ENTER TO GET THE SELECTION PUT TO TX SCREEN.
      MODES (M)  - -  A MODE SELECTION BOX WILL APPEAR. ENTER TO GET
		      THE SELECTED MODE, KEYS ARE ATIVE WITH OUT MENU.
      C+C CT     - -  CASCADE THUMB PICTURES TO DELETE BLANK TUMBS ON SCREEN
		      TO DELETE BLANK SPACES FOR NEATNESS.

      C+D DT     - -  DELETE SELECTED THUMB PICTURE.
      A+F3 InG   - -  COMPRESS PICTURE AND INSERT GRAY SCALE HEADER;
      A+F4 OvG   - -  OVERLAY PICTURE WITH GRAY SCALE HEADER
      SAVE RX (S)  -  A SAVE BOX APPEARS WITH CHOICES. TYPE IN NEW FILE
		      NAME, THEN HIT ENTER TO SAVE IT.
      ROTATE  (R)  -  SWAPS BOTH SCREENS
      > RX-TX (>)  -  COPIES RECEIVED PICTURE TO TRANSMIT SCREEN
      < TX-RX (<)  -  COPIES TRANSMIT PICTURE TO RECEIVE SCREEN
      /       (/)  -  VIEW LAST 10 DECODED CALL SIGNS, PROSKAN ONLY.

      SPACE RX     -  SPACE BAR MANUALLY TOGGLES RECEIVE ON/OFF IN CASE
		      AUTO START DOES NOT WORK.
      COMB    (C)  -  SMOOTHS THE DETECTOR INCASE OF NOISE, YOU MAY WANT
		      TO KEEP THIS ON AT ALL TIMES, HOWER EVER USING THE
		      SHARPNESS IN LEFT BOX MAY CASE TO MUCH SMOOTHING..
		       ALSO WHEN ALIGNING THE DETECTOR FOR MAX RES THIS
		      CONTROL SHOULD BE OFF !
      ZOOM    (Z)  -  ZOOM RECEIVED PICTURE TO FULL SCREEN,  YOU WILL
		      YOU WILL HAVE A MENU TO SELECT LEFT OR RIGHT AND
		      WHAT PORT OF THE 240 LINES YOU WANT TO SEE..
		      
      SHRP A+F1/F2 -  ADJUSTS SHARPNESS OF RECEIVED PICTURE. TRY TO KEEP
		      THE INDICATOR IN THE RIGHT BOX AS HIGH AS YOU CAN IF
		      YOUR USING THE INTERFACE INCLUDED IN THIS SOFTWARE.
		      ALSO EXPERIMENT WITH THE COMB SWITCH IN THIS STATE.
      SLANT FACTOR -  C+ <- /->  - FOR FINAL SLANTING CORRECTIONS PER MODE.
		      WHEN USING THE BASE TIMER 1 (DEFULT) ALL SETTINGS
		      SHOULD BE GOOD WHEN THE PROPER CRYSTAL FREQ IS 
		      SELECTED, WHEN USING BASE TIMER 2 (BEST ONE) YOU
		      NEED TO MANUALLY SET YOUR SLANTS IN EACH MODE, USING
		      THE QUICK SET WILL GET YOU TO A NEAR STARTING
		      POSSITION TO WORK WITH..

      XC:  - - - - -  YOUR CALL APPEARS WHEN YOU TRANSMIT, OR THE CALL 
		      FROM THE STATION TRANSMITTING WILL APPEAR HERE IF
		      USING PRO-SKAN. "~" INDICATES A SHAREWARE VERSION.

      OPM   - - - - - THE OPERATING MODE WILL APPEAR HERE

      VC    - - - - - THE VERTICAL INTERVAL START CODE WILL APPEAR HERE..
      CPU TIME  - - - THE TIME FROM YOUR COMPUTER CLOCK WILL APPEAR IN 
		      24 HOUR STYLE.      
      THE RGB COLORS - SHOWS THE COLOR LEVEL DRIVER YOU ARE USING.
      
      SPECTRO-SCOPE DISPLAY BOX  -  SHOWS SIGNAL STRENGTH, THE AMOUNT OF
      BLACK AND WHITE BEING RECEIVED, AND THE FREQUENCY ALIGNMENT BETWEEN
      THE TRANSMITTING STATION AND YOUR STATION. THE FREQ TONE MARK SHOULD
      BE ABOVE THE "S" IN THE RED AREA OR CLOSE TO IT. YOU CAN MOVE IT WITH
      YOUR RADIO VFO, ATV MODES DO NOT HAVE A SYNC PULSE.
		       
      TO THE LEFT OF THE SPECTRO-SCOPE BOX YOU WILL SEE 10 SMALL VERTICAL 
      BOXES, ONE WILL BE 'ON' TO INDICATE THE CURRENT BANK OF 20 THUMB BLOCKS.
      THE UP/DOWN ARROW KEYS ARE USED TO SELECT WHICH ROW OR BANK OF 
      THUMBNAILS YOU WANT. A TOTAL OF 200 PICTURES CAN BE SAVED IN THE
      REGISTERED VERSION 2.00 OR HIGHER. (20 PER BANK);                   
       32MEGS DISK SPACE IS REQUIRED IF ALL 200 ARE USED..

 Special Note:                        
       Once you have determine that your systems clock freq is correct
     which can be set from selecting the configurtion then "0".
       Then Run the program in the Mode 2 timer for proper pictures..
  In the event that you find a couple of modes not quite correct?
   you could always fine tune the slant slitly
      by depressing the CTRL+ left/right arrows keys you can make the
    picture shift to the direction it needs to be placed to align it..


PROBLEMS:


   #1
      Unexplainable noise speckles in the picture ?
	Cripple the memory manager, your computer is too slow or
      you have a problem with your interface...


   #2  Loose mouse operation after exiting the program ?
	 Need to use a true Blue Micro Soft mouse driver !

   #3   Mouse moves jerkey in SSTV screen.

	Some DOS programs use a mouse command to lock a video mode,
       try rebooting the computer and experiment to find which program
       you run before running PROSKAN that is causing the mouse
       problem..

   #4
       Some times Locks up when rotating, copying to thumbs, Tx to RX,
      RX to TX or moving the mouse to some areas of the screen ?

       Answer:..
       if has be found resently that some video cards in Vesa local or
      PCI Local buses are generating machine system halts when making
      attemp to read the video cards memory contents which is a
      standard operation for a video card, out of the tons of programs
      out there that uses graphics, only a vary few actually read the
      screens contents, they only write to the screen and they save
      there screen contents in the host memory...
	 Aparently some video cards are having problems switching from
      the write cycle to the read cycle or visvera when the read location
      is not in the same memory as the write locations there by causing
      the video card to perform more then it usually does...
	After swapping video cards for test reasons to find the
      problem goes away leads me to beleave that there are alot of
      problem video cards out there..
       This seems to be happening in HIgh SPeed cases such as the
      PCI or 32 local BUS..
	After extentive testing it appears that the video cards
      electronics is getting to hot because most of the problems
      seem to happen after you have done a few things that forces the
      video card to do a lot of  read/write direction switching !.
       One card just resently found was a TRIDENT PCI that was being
       used in a 120DX-4 Mhz PCI Bus, We put an old 256 16 bit card in
       it and all is well, we also tryed a cirrus card to find it worked
      well, this user has gotten a new card and works fine now..

END of KNOWN PROBLEMS..

 Paint Program.
    
  The QUOD function is to past four thumb prints on the TX screen.
    Hilight your THUMBS then place the  pointer to the corner you 
   want that thumb to appear..
     
  double cliking on the thumb will load TX as normal..

   the SPRAY , is a variant of the PEN draw, it helps you male specles
   on the screen.
  To change the colour of various options in the paint you simply
  adjust to the colour you want then place the pointer on the 
  function square and click the right mouse button..
   clicking the left button will move the current colour of the function
  square to the mixing box..

  In the ATTRIB box.

  the Coutline is the Charactor Out Line Control.
  The CBkGrd is the Charactor Back Ground control.
  The CShad is the 3d shaddow effects control.
  
