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This program shows messages every time the computer is turned on.

I made this program for fun. The purpose is to show a message with good content every time that I turned the computer on. I had acquired a scanner and it came with a text recognition program. To test the program I started to scan some messages from the book "Minutes of Wisdom". Each page that I scanned generated a text file. The conversion from image to text was not always perfect, therefore I had to fix some words by hand. To make the program less obvious I shuffled the text contents inside the files. Every time that I turned the computer on the program TEXTO.EXE was executed. The program read a configuration file to know which was the next text to be presented. After that, it converted the text file to the correct content and printed the content on the screen.

Picture: Example of a text that the program generated.

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Name

This program shows messages every time the computer is turned on.

Implementation date

December 1995

Size

322Kb

Executable and source code

1995-12-Textos.zip

Language or Compiler

Borland C Version 4