UCFImage Image Processing Software
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MINIMUM SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS:

	   AT CLASS (286) IBM compatible PC
	   520 Kbytes of RAM available
	   Hard Disk with at least 3 Megabytes file space available
	   VGA display system (8-bit color or monochrome)

SIMPLE INSTALL:

	Create a directory on your hard disk called UCFIMAGE.

		mkdir ucfimage

	Copy all of the files on this disk to the UCFIMAGE directory.

		copy b:*.* ucfimage

	Change directory to UCFIMAGE.

		cd ucfimage

	Type "install" to decompress the software to your hard disk.

		install

	When the install has finished, you may delete the following
	files from your hard disk:

		UCFIMAGE.ZOO
		INSTALL.BAT
		BOOZ.EXE

PROGRAM QUICKSTART:

	After installation, enter "run". The run.bat batch file will start
	UCFImage and autoload an image (IMAGES\PANIC.GIF) into the system.

	UCFImage will start by displaying a logo screen, then you will see
	a spinning cursor in the upper left hand corner of the screen that
	indicates the image is being loaded. If load was successful, an image
	of a set of keys from a keyboard will be displayed along with the
	UCFImage main menu.

	After loading the software, delete the UCFIMAGE.ZIP file.

CAUTIONS:

	If you are loading ANSI.SYS during your DOS boot, UCFImage may not
	operate correctly. Remove ANSI.SYS from your CONFIG.SYS startup file
	and try again.

	If you do not have at least 520K of free RAM, UCFImage will not run.
	Use CHKDSK to see how much memory you have, you may have to remove
	TSR (Terminate & Stay Resident) programs from your boot procedures.


QUICK TIPS:

	The displayed image is subsampled, to see the full resolution, go
	into PAN mode by pressing ALT-P. Use the ESC key to exit PAN mode.

	The first character of a menu item activates it, the system is also
	case sensitive, e.g., two menu items with the same 1st character
	will be distinguished by the case of the character.

	UCFImage is mouse-aware. Use the left mouse key to select, the right
	mouse key to escape.

	Type a question mark (?) to invoke the built-in help.

	If you are short on disk space, you may remove unused overlays.
	Names of the removable overlays and their functions are:

		cf-bmp 		reads/writes BMP format images
		cf-gif                "      GIF       "
		cf-pcx                "      PCX       "
		cf-tifr         reads  TIFF format images
		cf-tifw         writes        "
		fil-ada         adaptive filters
		fil-cir         circularly symmetric filters*
		fil-fft         Fast Fourier Transform
		fil-mor         morphological filters
		fil-non         nonlinear filters
		fil-spa         spatial filters
		algebra         algebraic operations
		geometry        geometric operations
		histogrm        histograms
		measure         measurements on images
		noise           noise generation
		palette         color operations
		warping         image distortion

	    *note: circular filters require that the FFT be present.

	    Online graphic gelp files (stored in \HELP directory with
	    .BIN extensions) may be removed to conserve space. Do not
	    remove the UCFIMAGE.LGO or UCFIMAGE.ABO files.

	    It is recommended that images be stored in GIF format for
	    maximum use of disk space (GIF compresses). If disk storage
	    is not an issue, then storage in UCFImage format (raw) will
	    allow fastest load/save operations.
