Copyright: RBIL Viewer, Copyright DMS Freeware 1998-1999


RBIL Viewer

The ultimate viewer for Ralf Brown's Interrupt List

Introduction:

Introduction

Why RBIL Viewer ?

Working with RBIL Viewer:

Installation / Setup

Getting started

Indexfiles

Finding topics and text

Cross referencing / The See Also menu

Tools

Keyboard shortcuts

Configuration:

Configuration

Commandline parameters

Changing category descriptions

Information:

FAQ's

What's new / Version history

Availability

Copyright


Introduction:

Introduction:

Since 1989 Ralf Brown maintains The Interrupt List. This is comprehensive listing of over 8500 functions available through interrupt calls on IBM PCs and compatibles. The Interrupt List is really nothing more than a text file, which is formatted in a special way. Because of it's unique layout, it can be viewed both with any text viewer/editor as with special dedicated programs (such as RBIL Viewer). With RBIL Viewer, you can not only view the actual Interrupt List (Interrup.lst), but also all other List files that are distributed along with The Interrupt List (such as Ports.lst, Cmos.lst, etc.).

Features:

-	Split screen layout, which displays both all topic titles as the current topic on the same screen (in the same way as most e-mail programs).

-	Topic titles can be displayed per category (or all at once), switching between categories is very easy.

-	Can handle all list files that are distributed along with The Interrupt List - and any other file which has the same layout as The Interrupt List.

-	Save, Print and Copy functions for topics.

-	Find function for topic titles.

-	Lists can be selected directly from the main menu.

-	Ready for both old as future releases of The Interrupt List.

Requirements:

-	The Interrupt List by Ralf Brown. If you don't have The Interrupt List then you can find it on the Internet. (see Availability)

-	Windows 95/98/NT4.

-	Some free diskspace (less than 1 MB).

Why RBIL Viewer >


Why RBIL Viewer ?

I've used quite some viewers for The Interrupt List over the years, most of them work fine but have one major disadvantage: they are specifically written to handle the list Interrup.lst and don't support all the other lists which are distributed along with The Interrupt List. I also noticed that most viewers use just about the same interface and are seriously outdated. At first I wanted to make a brand new viewer for DOS but because more and more people are using Windows 95/98 these days (including me) I decided to create a viewer for that platform.

Installation / Setup >


Installation / Setup:

Installation:

RBIL Viewer has no special installation procedure, just place the program files (Rbilview.exe and Rbilview.hlp) in any folder of your choice and make your own desktop shortcut if you like.

Setting up the program:

The Open List menu is designed to display all list files of a certain directory; this makes it easy to switch between lists. You can find this menu under the File menu and on the toolbar (click on right section of the Open List button). When you run RBIL Viewer for the first time then the Open List menu will probably only display Open. To display all lists of The Interrupt List in the menu you must first specify the location of The Interrupt List in the configuration screen. The configuration screen can be found under the Options menu (Configuration…). You can now change the Location of list files. Click Ok to accept the changes and to close the configuration screen. The List menu should now display all lists of The Interrupt List. (see FAQ's if Interrup.lst and Ports.lst do not show up in the menu).

Loading lists for the first time:

When you open a list for the first time (either by selecting it directly from the Open List menu or by using Other or Open), RBIL Viewer will automatically create an indexfile for that list. RBIL Viewer uses this indexfile so it can quickly load all topic titles the next time you open that list. Although you can disable the usage of indexfiles (in the configuration screen), it is best left enabled whenever possible since it only speeds up the loading of a list. Click here for more information about indexfiles.

Getting started >


Getting started:

The main window consists of two major sections. The upper part (just under the toolbar), displays all topic titles of a certain category. The lower part displays a topic. The topic that is displayed can either always match the selected topic (this means that you only have to highlight a topic title to load it), or it can be an other topic then the one that is highlighted - depending on the settings in the configuration screen. In the latter case you must either double-click the topic title or hit the Enter key to load a specific topic.

Save, print and copy:

To save or print a topic you can select the matching commands under the File menu. To copy the current topic to the clipboard, you must first select all text (hint: use Ctrl-A) and then copy the text (Ctrl-C). A topic is always saved to disk as plain text, this means that the special topic formatting as used in RBIL Viewer, is lost. When copying the topic to the clipboard however, the topic formatting remains. This means that when you paste the text into a program that can handle Rich Text, the text will look the same as it does in RBIL Viewer (otherwise it will be pasted as plain text). For printing you can either choose to print a topic as it appears in RBIL Viewer (with current font and topic formatting), or to override these settings and just print the text in a special font without topic formatting. You can change this setting in the configuration screen. You can also print a partial topic by selecting the text you want to print and choosing Selection as the print range in the print dialog.

Changing categories:

To display only the topics of a certain category, you can select that category from the category combobox which is located on the toolbar. The default selection is All categories when a list has more than one category, and the single category when a list has only one. When you are in a specific category and you want to switch back to All categories then you can just click on the word Categories (located on the left side of the combobox).

Finding topics and text:

To find a certain topic title or to find text in the current topic, you can use the Find option in the Search menu. Just specify the text you want to find and press Ok. To repeat the last search operation you can select Search again or use the key F3. Click here for more information about finding topics and text.

Zoom topic:

To hide the topic titles and to show only the current topic, you can select Zoom topic from the Options menu. You can also use the keyboard shortcuts F5 to zoom and Esc or F5 to unzoom. With a special setting in the configuration screen you can specify to always zoom a topic when the topic title is double clicked. (Note: this option is Off by default).

Indexfiles >


Indexfiles:

When you load a list for the first time, the program will automatically create an indexfile for this list (this may take a while). The program uses this file to quickly obtain all topic titles the next time you load that list. The program automatically detects if the indexfile needs to be updated (e.g. when it is deleted or when the list was updated/replaced). Indexfiles are stored in the same directory as the list they belong to and have the same filename as the list but use the extension .rbilv.

You can also create indexfiles manually. To do this, you must first load the list and then select Update Topic Titles from the Options menu. (Note: it is normally not necessary to create indexfiles manually - only do this when you are convinced that the program hasn't created a new indexfile automatically).

For more information about indexfiles see FAQ

Finding topics and text >


Finding topics and text:

With RBIL Viewer it is possible to search for a specific topic title or to search for text within the current topic. Both these options are available in the Find window, which can be found under the Search menu.

Finding topics:

To search for a specific topic, you can enter a part of the topic title or topic ID in the Text to find editbox. The Search in setting must be set to either Topic titles of current category or Topic titles of all categories. The respective names speak for themselves. Press the Find button to close the window and to find the first matching topic. Any other matching topics can be found with the Search Again option.

Finding text in current topic:

To search for text in the current topic, you can enter the text you want to find in the Text to find editbox. The Search in setting must be set to Current topic. Press the Find button to close the windows and to find the first occurrence of the specified text in the current topic. Any more occurrences can be found with the Search Again option.

Some notes:

•	Search Again always continues searching from the last location which was found by a search operation.

•	Using Find will always start the search from beginning.

•	When the last matching item has been found and another Search Again is done then a message will be displayed. When you close the message window and do another Search Again then the search will start from top.

Cross referencing / The See Also menu >


Cross referencing / The See Also menu:

A lot of topics have a SeeAlso line which mentions topics that are related to the one you are viewing. A topic can refer to three things: an other topic within the current list, a topic in an other list or a table. The first kind of reference will shown up under the so-called See Also menu, which can be accessed by pressing the button with a downwards facing arrow (located above the current topic, on the left side). To go to a related topic, just select the topic from the menu. Note that RBIL Viewer only supports internal cross-referencing, this means that you cannot go to a topic which is not in the current list.

Starting from version 2.1 it is also  possible to directly click highlighted items on the SeeAlso line in the topic. You can only select topics which refer to other topics within the current list, these items will show up in a green color. Items on the SeeAlso line which refer to tables or topics of an other list will be displayed in teal.

Parsing the SeeAlso line of a topic does take up a small amount of time, if you have a slow computer or simply never use cross referencing, then you could consider to disable the See Also menu (this can be done in the configuration screen).

Tools >


Tools:

Under the Tools menu (located under Options in the main menu) you can find some special functions, of which some will only be available if the appropriate external programs are available.

Explore Lists Location

This option is always available and will simply open Windows Explorer in the directory that is specified as Lists Location in the configuration screen. This is ideal for browsing/viewing all the other files/programs that are distributed along with The Interrupt List.

Run Combine.com

This option is only available if the program Combine.com is located in the List Location as specified in the configuration screen. This option offers a graphical user interface to the program Combine.com which can be used to combine all the different sections of Interrupt.lst and Ports.lst. (note: Combine.com is distributed along with The Interrupt List and is usually located in the same directory as the lists by default).

Run Intprint.com

This option is only available if the program Intprint.com is located in the List Location as specified in the configuration screen. This option offers a graphical user interface to the program Intprint.com which can be used to print lists and topics in a vast kind of ways. You must specify the parameters to the program yourself. For an overview of all available parameters you can run the program with no parameters and the option Keep DOS prompt active after run On. (note: Intprint.com is distributed along with The Interrupt List and is usually located in the same directory as the lists by default).

Keyboard shortcuts >


Keyboard shortcuts:

General shortcuts:

F1	Help

F3	Search Again

F5	Zoom / Unzoom Topic

Ctrl+O	Open List

Ctrl+S	Save Current Topic

Ctrl+P	Print Current Topic

Ctrl+A	Select All Text of Current Topic

Ctrl+C	Copy Selected Text of Current Topic

Ctrl+F	Find Topic / Text

Alt+F4	Close Program

Tab	Switch Between Category Combobox, Topic Titles and Current Topic

Special shortcuts:

Esc	Unzoom Topic (when zoomed)

Ctrl+Down	Next Topic

Ctrl+Up	Previous Topic

Ctrl+Shift+C	Copy Current Topic

Ctrl+Apps	Show SeeAlso Menu (Apps = Application key on Microsoft Natural Keyboard)

Additionally some of the lists can be opened quickly by using Shift in combination with either C, I, F, M, O or P. See the Open List menu for more information.

Configuration >


Configuration:

The configuration screen has a tabcontrol which has 4 pages: Startup, Settings, Layout and Advanced. When you press the Ok button, the configuration screen will be closed and RBIL Viewer will use the new settings. When you press Cancel or just close the window, then any changes will be canceled.

To get more help about a specific item in the configuration screen, you can press the ?-button (located on the caption of the configuration screen) and click on the item you want more information about.)

Commandline parameters >


Commandline parameters:

You can start RBIL Viewer with the following comandline parameters:

/IndexUse	Use indexfiles, update whenever needed

/IndexNoUpdate	Use existing indexfiles, don't update

/IndexNoUse	Don't use indexfiles

/ConfigNoSave	Don't save configuration settings to registry

/ConfigClear	Clear all configuration settings (use defaults)

/Quit	Quit program immediately

Notes:

•	If the /ConfigNoSave parameter isn't specified then the setting specified with /Index…, will be the new setting for indexfile handling the next time you start up RBIL Viewer.

•	The parameters /NoIndex and /NoRegistry (which were available for RBIL Viewer 1.xx) will still work on this version.

Changing category descriptions >


Changing category descriptions:

The actual category identifier in a list consists only of a single ASCII character. Because the category descriptions of a list are not present in a standardized form, RBIL Viewer uses the default descriptions as stated by Ralf Brown in The Interrupt List. These descriptions are used for all lists. To override the default descriptions of categories, or to add descriptions for new categories, you can use a category description file.

The category description file must be called Catdesc.ini, and must reside in the same directory as Rbilview.exe. Whenever a category description file is available, RBIL Viewer will ignore the default descriptions and use the ones stated in the file. Any category that does not have a description will show up as Unknown in the category combobox on the toolbar.

The format of the Catdesc.ini is as follows: Every category description must start on a new line, a line starts with a #, followed by the ASCII-code of the category character and an equal sign. The category description can be specified behind the equal sign, and may contain spaces (unlike everything that is in front of the equal sign). Any line that does not start with a # is ignored.

Example:

#65=Applications

#66=BIOS

#67=CPU-generated

#68=DOS kernel

FAQ's >


FAQ's:

Where are Interrup.lst and Ports.lst ?

Interrupt.lst is normally divided over 16 different files (Interrup.a - Interrup.p). In order to create Interrupt.lst (the complete interrupt list) you must combine these files into one file. To do this, you can use the program Combine.com (which is distributed along with The Interrupt List). If this program is located in the same directory as the lists and you have specified the correct list location in the configuration screen, then you can select Run Combine.com from the Options-Tools menu. Everything mentioned here also goes for Ports.lst.

Which lists will show up under the "Open List" menu ?

Any file with the extension .lst that is located in the default list location. This is not 100% foolproof, since not all files with the extension .lst are in the standard Interrupt List format, but this approach does guarantee that any new list that is added to The Interrupt List in the future appears in the menu.

Not all lists of The Interrupt List show up under the "Open List" menu, why is that ?

The list files 86bugs.lst and Glossary.lst do not show up under the Open List menu because they aren't formatted in the same way as The Interrupt List - they are plain text files. RBIL Viewer was not designed to display plain text files, but can actually handle them. If you want to load them, then use Other from the Open List menu. If you want them to show up directly under the Open List menu, then you can must enable the Display all .LST files in "Open List" menu option in the configuration screen.

Why do tables references not show up in the SeeAlso menu ?

RBIL Viewer doesn't support table cross-referencing, so displaying them in the SeeAlso menu would be pointless.

How can I reset the column width of the topic titles to the default width ?

Right click the mouse button on the header and select Default Column Width.

How do I uninstall RBIL Viewer ?

Since you don't really install RBIL Viewer, there is also no real uninstall procedure. Just the program files. You might also want to delete all indexfiles (*.rbilv).

Why does RBIL Viewer use indexfiles and what kind of information is stored in an indexfile ?

RBIL Viewer uses indexfiles to speed up the loading of topic titles. An indexfiles contains all topic titles of a list and some additional information about the position of the topic in the actual list. When you load a list, RBIL Viewer doesn't actually load the complete list into memory, but loads all topic titles from the indexfile.

When does RBIL Viewer create a new indexfile for a list ?

-	When a list is loaded for the first time (and the automatic creation of indexfiles is not disabled)

-	When the date/time of the indexfile does no longer match the date/time of the list.

-	When the user selects Update Topic Titles from the Options menu.

Where does RBIL Viewer store its settings ?

RBIL Viewer stores its configuration settings in the registry under the key:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\DMS Freeware\RBIL Viewer\. When you delete this key, RBIL Viewer will use its default settings the next time you start up the program.

What's new >


What's new:

+	Indicates a new feature.

-	Indicates a bugfix.

•	Indicates a change.

New in version 2.1 (compared to v2.0)

+	Hot Links for topic cross referencing.

-	Current list would no longer be checked after a 'Update Topic Titles' command. Fixed.

-	Cross referencing failed for some quite some topics in I2C.LST. Fixed.

-	Clicking on the first column of the Topic Titles list after a list was closed would display 'Sel: 1' on the statusbar. Fixed.

-	Things like '!!!ftp://' on the start of a line was underlined when topic formatting is on. Fixed.

-	'Search again' in topic titles wouldn't start from top when a new list was loaded. Fixed.

-	'Search again' in topic text didn't start from top when a new topic was shown. Fixed.

-	Main Toolbar would always be aligned to the right side of the screen when using the program on a system with Internet Explorer 5 installed. Fixed.

•	A lot of internal optimizations

•	Loading indexfiles is a lot faster, progressbar only shows up on lists which have more than 1000 topics. Optimized indexfile creation routine.

•	Improved cross-referencing. Cross-referencing now works in about 95% of all cases.

•	The program now uses the Richedit 2.0 component to display the current topic (is also still compatible with Richedit 1.0).

•	Category Combobox is now resizable so longer category descriptions will also fit.

Version history >


Version history:

+	Indicates a new feature.

-	Indicates a bugfix.

•	Indicates a change.

Version 1.0ß1	(30 April '98)

•	First version (unreleased).

Version 1.0	(08 May '98)

•	First 'official' version.

Version 1.5	(16 June '98)

+	Find option.

+	Print option.

+	Added speedbuttons for some functions.

+	Zoom option for current topic.

+	Copy current topic has been added to the 'File' menu.

+	Option for disabling the creation of indexfiles. (useful when viewing lists from a read only disk).

+	Commandline parameters: '/NOINDEX' to disable the creation of indexfiles and '/NOREGISTRY' to not modify the registry.

+	New option to enable/disable the automatic loading of the First topic when changing the list/category.

+	Added a statusbar to the configurationscreen which shows the pathnames of the comboboxes.

-	Bug: The current topic would be all in Bold font style when a new topic was selected and the cursor was placed on the first line of the previous topic. Fixed.

-	Bug: After the configuration form is closed with the 'Ok' button, the current loaded list was no longer marked. Fixed.

•	Better error handling when creating indexfile (When the indexfile cannot be created, the topics are still loaded).

•	When a list from the default location is loaded with 'Other', the actual list will be checked in the 'List' menu instead of 'Other'.

•	Default setting of Single Click Topic View is now 'On'.

•	Selected text of current topic remains selected when focus shifts to another component.

•	Several interface enhancements.

Version 1.5a	(22 June '98)

-	Bug: User couldn't select category '*' which was present in some lists (including INTERRUP.LST and PORTS.LST). Fixed.

-	Bug: When a list had unknown categories, the category title 'No categories available' wasn't displayed correctly. Fixed

-	Bug: When the user shifts focus away from Category ComboBox when the dropdown list is shown and the current category hasn't changed, the current category was reloaded. Fixed.

•	Categories without descriptions are now mentioned as 'Unknown' instead of '?' in the Category combobox.

•	Improved detection of topics in a list when creating indexfile.

Version 1.5b	(08 July '98)

-	Bug: Categories with lowercase character wouldn't show up in Categories listbox (bug was only present in version 1.5a). Fixed.

-	Bug: Shortcut keys in Find dialog wouldn't work. Fixed.

Version 1.6	(23 July '98)

+	Added 'Match text case' option to Find dialog.

+	Added 'Whole words only' option to Find dialog.

+	Added option to load the last opened list on startup (in configuration dialog).

+	Added option to zoom topic with double click (and Enter-key) in config dialog.

+	Enhanced formatting of topics (things like 'Desc:' and 'SeeAlso:' are underlined, additionally, the formatting of topics can be disabled with a new option in the configuration dialog.

+	The plain text documentation of RBIL Viewer has been replaced by a help file (RBILVIEW.HLP) which can be accessed via 'Help' -> 'Help index…' (or F1).

-	Bug: When the Find dialog is shown and closed with Cancel/Close button, text search starts from top when doing 'Search Next'. Fixed.

-	Bug: After Loading a list and changing the 'Location of list files' to a directory which contains no lists, 'Open...' will be checked in the 'List' menu. Fixed.

-	Bug: When a list was loaded for the second time with 'automatic creation of indexfiles' enabled AFTER it was loaded with 'automatic creation of indexfiles' disabled, the program would give an error message and corrupt the indexfile of the list. Fixed.

-	Bug: When option 'load first topic of list automatically' was ON, and a new list was loaded, the zoom option would be available when no topic was loaded which would result in an error while using zoom. When an other list was loaded, speedbuttons for 'Save', 'Copy', 'Print' and the popupmenu of the current topic would be enabled. All Fixed.

•	Loading a list (with indexfile) is up to 20% faster.

•	Changed Findtext input from 'Edit' to 'ComboBox' which has a list of the last used find strings.

•	Items of the topics list which are selected by a search operation now turn Black (instead of Teal), just as selected text of the current topic.

•	Topics with a length of 0 are ignored when creating an indexfile.

•	Redesigned Configuration dialog.

•	Redesigned Find dialog.

•	Esc-key is 'Unzoom' when viewing zoomed topic.

•	When loading a list with 'automatic creation of indexfiles' disabled, the progress dialog will now show an other message.

•	After loading a list (or creating a new indexfile), the current topic is automatically unzoomed (this also fixes some small bugs).

Version 1.6d	(22 September '98)

•	NOTE: This is only a maintenance update of v1.6, no major things were changed nor were any bugs fixed.

•	All colors within the program will change to match the current color scheme in Windows.

•	Open and Save dialog boxes can now be resized (in Win98).

•	Visual changes to Category Combobox.

•	The 'Browse' button for the 'location of lists' in the configurationscreen, will now display the standard Windows 95/98 directory selection dialog - instead of the custom one used in previous versions of the program.

•	[List Info] in Topics list is now in Bold text style.

•	Various small design changes.

Version 1.6e	(11 October '98)

-	Bug: Item in topics list, selected by a find operation would be all black. (bug was only present in v1.6d) Fixed.

•	List files under 'List' menu are only reloaded when the default directory of list files has actually been changed in the Configuration dialog.

•	When changing the Topic Text Formatting option in the Configuration dialog, the new setting immediately takes effect after closing the config dialog with the Ok button.

Version 1.61	(27 October '98)

+	New option for font size selection.

-	Bug: On some occasions the program would always create a new indexfile whenever a list was loaded, this bug was present since v1.0 and has now been fixed.

•	Various small design changes.

Version 1.62	 (04 December '98)

-	Fixed some minor incompatibility issues with release 59 of The Interrupt List.

-	Fixed some color settings for better support with different color schemes in Windows.

-	Unlike the 'Open-dialog', the 'Save-dialog' couldn't be resized in Win98, (although mentioned as a new feature in the help file of v1.6d). Fixed.

-	'Topic Title' column would remain black when selecting the 'Topic ID' column after a find. Fixed.

•	Changed the default setting for "Double click = Zoom topic" to Disabled.

•	Changed default column width of "Topic ID" for better visibility with a font size of 12.

•	Improved help file.

Version 1.62a	 (24 January '99)

-	All prior 1.6xx versions wouldn't work if no printer was installed, this has been fixed in this version.

-	'Topic Title' column would remain black when selecting the 'Topic ID' column after a find. Mentioned as fixed in documentation of v1.62, but wasn't actually fixed in that version.

•	Should be a bit more stable on Windows 95 OSR1 (not tested though)

•	Zoom Topic is 'smoother'.

Version 2.0	 (04 March '99)

+	Find function for finding a topic in any category regardless of the current one.

+	Topic cross referencing for topics in current list (with See Also menu).

+	Print Selection option.

+	Tools menu.

+	Category character is displayed when viewing 'All categories'.

+	User-defined category descriptions now possible (with CATDESC.INI).

+	Changeable Font styles and Sizes.

•	Changed menu layout.

•	Internet Explorer-like toolbars.

•	'Find' shows loads the found topic directly in zoomed mode, even when 'Load selected topic' is OFF.

•	Many more configurable options in configuration screen.

•	Loading topic titles (opening list) up to 50% faster.

•	Loading (showing) topics 50% to 95% faster.

•	Changing categories is a lot faster.

•	Finding text is a bit faster.

•	Better detection of 'real' topic titles.

•	Topics which contain no data are no longer shown.

•	OPCODES.LST is parsed much better.

•	Improved support for legacy lists and plain text files.

•	The program is overall more stable after an error occurs.

•	All colors within the program use the current Windows color scheme.

•	Screen layout also looks good with Large Fonts setting in windows.

•	Better Help file.

Version 2.0 r2	(07 March '99)

-	Fixed memory leak bug in indexfile creation routine.

Version 2.1	(05 April '99)

+	Hot Links for topic cross referencing.

-	Current list would no longer be checked after a 'Update Topic Titles' command. Fixed.

-	Cross referencing failed for some quite some topics in I2C.LST. Fixed.

-	Clicking on the first column of the Topic Titles list after a list was closed would display 'Sel: 1' on the statusbar. Fixed.

-	Things like '!!!ftp://' on the start of a line was underlined when topic formatting is on. Fixed.

-	'Search again' in topic titles wouldn't start from top when a new list was loaded. Fixed.

-	'Search again' in topic text didn't start from top when a new topic was shown. Fixed.

-	Main Toolbar would always be aligned to the right side of the screen when using the program on a system with Internet Explorer 5 installed. Fixed.

•	A lot of internal optimizations

•	Loading indexfiles is a lot faster, progressbar only shows up on lists which have more than 1000 topics. Optimized indexfile creation routine.

•	Improved cross-referencing. Cross-referencing now works in about 95% of all cases.

•	The program now uses the Richedit 2.0 component to display the current topic (is also still compatible with Richedit 1.0).

•	Category Combobox is now resizable so longer category descriptions will also fit.

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Availability:

Download The Interrupt List from Ralf Brown's homepage:

      http://www.pobox.com/~ralf

The latest version of RBIL Viewer can be found on this page:

      http://www.via.nl/~dms/freeware/rbilviewer/

E-mail: masterx@thepentagon.com

(Please DO NOT send questions or remarks about RBIL Viewer to Ralf Brown, he has no direct connection to this program)


Copyright:

RBIL Viewer is Freeware ! You are free to copy and distribute the program as long as you make no changes to any of the program files and no fee is charged. Usage of the program is at own risk, the programmer cannot be held responsible for damage to either hard- or software caused by RBIL Viewer.

RBIL Viewer is Copyright © DMS Freeware 1998-1999.

The Interrupt List is Copyright © Ralf Brown.


Press the Ok button to accept all changes and to return to the program.


Press the Cancel button to cancel all changes and to return to the program.


Here you can specify the folder which contains the files of The Interrupt List. When the location of the files has been specified, all lists should appear under the Open List menu.


Here you can specify which list should be loaded automatically when the program is started.

(Default: None)


When this option is On, confirmation will be asked before the program is shut down.

(Default: Off)


When this option is On a printer setup dialog will be shown before actual printing is started. When this option is Off then printing starts right away.

(Default: On)


When this option is On then topics will be formatted with colors and underlining of key items. When this option is Off then topics will be presented in plain text. (Note: Topics will load a bit faster when this option is Off)

(Default: On)


When this option is On then a topic is loaded whenever it is selected in the topic list (usually by a single mouse click). When this option is Off then the topic is only loaded when it is double clicked in the topic list.

(Default: On)


When this option is On then double clicking a topic in the topic list will automatically zoom that topic. When this option is Off then a double click will just load the topic.

(Default: Off)


When this option if Off then only the most important lists will be shown in the Open List menu. When this option is On all files with the extension .LST will show up under the menu.

(Default: Off)


When this option if Off, the SeeAlso lines of a topic will not be parsed and the See Also menu will be disabled. (Note: Topics will load a bit faster when this option is Off)

(Default: On)


When this option is On then category characters will be displayed in the topic title list when showing All Categories.

(Default: On)


When this option is On then the default font will be used for topic title list and current topic. When the option is Off, you can change the font by pressing the Change Font button (located on the right side of the checkbox).

(Default: On)


Select the print style here, in wysiwyg mode the printed text will look the same as it does on screen, with the same font and topic formatting settings.

(Default: Use special font and no topic formatting)


Select the indexfile setting here. Change this option if you don't want the program to create new indexfiles automatically (e.g. when loading lists from read-only media). You can also select to not use indexfiles at all. (note: indexfiles considerably speed up list loading, so their usage should be enabled whenever possible).

(Default: Use indexfiles, update whenever needed)


When this option is On then the program will only try to parse topics out of files with the extension .LST, if you load a file with an other extension, the program will see it as a plain text file and will not search for topics. If you want to load lists which are in the common Interrupt List format, but have an other extension then set this option to Off.

(Default: On)