CixEd 2.86

The Off-Line Reader for Compulink Information eXchange for the Psion series 5 handheld computer. Cix is the largest text conferencing system in the UK with about 15000 users, providing conferences on a wide variety of topics, both in and out of the computing industry. Cix also provides internet access and email as well as the conferencing system. Full details are available on the Cix website at www.compulink.co.uk/

CixEd was originally written by Steve Litchfield - slitchfield@cix.co.uk and subsequently released as freeware complete with source in OPL. CixEd has since benefitted from ontributions from :

Andy Giddings - andyc@cix.co.uk

Steve Martin - smartinc@cix.co.uk

Tony Crocker - tsteven@cix.co.uk

Paul Wakeford - pwakeford@cix.co.uk

Mark Fleeming - mfleeming@cix.co.uk

and many others on Cix/general and Cix/development

Third party OPX's used

Spell.opx (c) Otfried Cheong (c/o RMR Software www.rmrsoft.com)

Systinfo.opx (c) Otfried Cheong (c/o RMR Software www.rmrsoft.com)

File descriptions

Files REQUIRED to run CixEd

These files should be installed in either C or D drive in the SYSTEM/APPS/CIXED/ folder

CixEd.app Application file

CixEd.aif Application information file

CixEd.mbm Buttons bitmap file

CixEd.scr Comms script

CixEd.hlp (Optional) Help file

These files should be installed in your SYSTEM/OPX folder

Spell.opx Spelling checker opx

Systinfo.opx Language extensions

This file should be installed in your C:/DOCUMENTS/ folder and may be deleted after reading.

CixEd Read.me This document in Psion Word format

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This version of Cixed will delete old versions (2.75 and below) of the preferences file and ask you to reenter your data.

This does not affect the settings, password or addresses files. To add the new preference settings the only way was to add another file or update some of the original ones. I'm afraid I opted for the last option, but it should not cause any problems.

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New features and fixes since the last release

• Bugs fixed and general improvements

• Various bug fixes

• Terse or Verbose and/or compact scratchpad formats

• Uses Xmodem for IR blinks

• Saves IR settings between blinks

• Spurious characters added to messages bug fixed

• Review outtray at any time

Reporting bugs

Whilst every effort is made to release a program without bugs, there are bound to be occasions when one slips through.

Please report all bugs to the Cixed/development conf. Don't email me or other authors directly as others may have contributions to make. I will always endeavour to reply to

conf messages as soon as possible when required.

Errors in code are now trapped, and a dialog is presented indicating the routine where the error occured. Please quote the contents of this dialog and all key presses/events leading

up to the error when reporting the problem.

The authors have jobs which keep us fully occupied putting food on the table; development of CixEd is done in our spare time, so please be patient.

Regards

Mark Fleeming

mfleeming@cix.co.uk