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* The TEXTRA package is Copyright ©1994 Mike Haas, All Rights Reserved. *
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-- Welcome --
Textra 1.15 is the User-Friendly Text Editor for the Amiga. Easy-to-
use and full of features... background printing and ARexx script
operation, UNDO, multiple windows in different fonts, convienient
'mouse-drag-select' paradigm, Marks, user-definable keyboard, and the
list goes on.
Great emphasis has been placed on the user-interface to make Textra easy
to get used to, learn and become proficient with. There is even a
Tutorial ARexx script to help beginners get started (see below for
kwik-start instructions for it).
Textra is versatile enough to excel as a programmer's text editor as
well as crank out the occasional book report or letter. This is because
it includes some useful page/paragraph-formatting tools among it's ARexx
scripts.
Textra is very useful in the programmers arena. This version includes
scripts that allow Textra to act as an integrated text editor for JForth
Professional 3.x, SAS/C and HSPascal. This Textra will display
balancing parenthesis, bracket or double-quotes for any ( ) [ ] { } < >
or leading " character you double-click. (If you are using Textra 1.14
or later to read this, try double-clicking on one of the parenthesis
around this sentence.)
Hard disk users...
Launch the "Install_Textra" and it will prompt you through
the installation of Textra and its support files.
Floppy users...
If you are short on disk space, or don't want hassle with
finding room for everything right now, then temporarily
assign rexx: to the scripts drawer of this package.
If running 2.0 or later (and who isn't?), you can add
the scripts drawer to your: assign path for rexx:.
Assuming this package is at the root of df0:...
assign rexx: df0:scripts add
Either way, an interactive tutorial is provided to start having some fun
with Textra and ARexx as well as introduce you this friendly but
powerful editor.
Launch the Tutorial ARexx script as follows...
1. Start Textra by double-clicking on its icon. (If you
already have it up, proceed to step 3)
2. In the file-requester that appears, press CANCEL
3. Pull down the "Utilities, ARexx..." menu item.
4. In the ARexx requester that appears, enter:
Tutorial
into one of the string gadgets (if not already in one)
followed by RETURN. The tutorial will soon greet you.
(It will take 15 sec. or so on unaccelerated Amigas).
Please refer to the 'docs' directory for full program documentation.
Please refer to the accompanying 'Docs/WhatsNew.doc' file for detailed,
categorized, new feature/bug fix information.
Updates provided to all previously-registered Textra users upon
request for $5.
Enjoy!
Mike Haas
3867 La Colina Rd.
El Sobrante, CA. 94803
(Standard disclaimer stuff applies... Use at your own risk...
No warrenty is expressed or implied... You are free to distribute
this package in it's UNMODIFIED ENTIRITY ONLY... Thanks.)