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- CygnusSoft Software
- Box 363, 1215 Davie St, Vancouver BC CANADA V6E 1N4
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- July 17, 1987
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- Dear Mr Fish,
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- It is good to see someone so dedicated to Amiga software
- distribution - we are enclosing a couple of programs here for
- inclusion in your library of "Fred Fish" public domain software disks.
- We have recently unveiled our latest project: CygnusEd. You may have
- heard of us on CompuServe as the people who developed the MandFXP Fast
- Fractal graphics program. Well, here are demonstration copies of
- both.
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- Here is an incomplete list of CygnusEd's features:
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- 1. Multiple files can be edited simultaneously.
- 2. Multiple views of the same file (co-operating).
- 3. VERY! FAST display.
- 4. Margins, word-wrap, status-lines, insert/overstrike,dual
- keypad interpretations.
- 5. EXTENSIVE online help.
- 6. Intuitive commands, full menus, almost all commands can be
- accessed via the keyboard.
- 7. Soft scroll borders (adjustable).
- 8. Many, many screen width, height variations, including
- overscanning.
- 9. Adjustable tab size, positioning, interpretation as
- spaces or as tab characters.
- 10. Choice of LAYOUT/STANDARD screen operation.
- 11. Very fast search, replace (with wildcards!).
- 12. Keyboard/menu MACROS.
- 13. Storage of preferred settings, macros.
- 14. Runs from CLI or WorkBench.
- 15. Text formatting options.
- 16. Direct ASCII value entry.
- 17. Block/line/word cut/copy!
- 18. Vertical (any rectangular region) block operations.
- 19. Intuitive, flexible cursor operations from keyboard.
- 20. Adjustable scroll speeds.
- 21. Hidden escape codes option.
- 22. Hardcoded function keys containing over 40 common escape
- codes.
- 23. Optional terminate and stay resident - reappear with single
- keystroke.
- 24. The priority of the CygnusEd editor can be set to any
- value from -9 to +9 or can simply inherit the default
- priority from the workbench or CLI it is run from.
- 25. Video-display scrolling for ease of use in overscan
- screens.
- 26. Settings and macros can be stored in many different
- "defaults" files which are loaded automatically when you
- invoke CygnusEd.
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- CygnusEd runs on 512K, single drive systems and fully supports
- extra memory and extra drives.
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- CygnusEd costs $30.00 US and version 1.12 is available right now.
- Updates are done at cost as a service to the customer. The update
- cost for CygnusEd will be $10.00 US. This includes an update to the
- manual.
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- We encourage you to distribute this demonstration copy far and
- wide, you can include it in your club library and distribute it to
- your members. The only difference between the demonstration copy and
- the real copy is that the demo will not allow you to save files larger
- than 5K in size (but you can still load them and edit in them and try
- its performance on large files).
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- Thanks!
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- Steve LaRocque
- Bruce Dawson
- CygnusSoft Software
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- PS: If you have any questions regarding either CygnusEd or MandFXP,
- feel free to give us a call (604-688-1085) or write us.
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- Programmers who are interested in using the file requester used in
- CygnusEd can write to the author, Colin Fox, care of CygnusSoft
- Software. Colin charges $10.00 for the source and object code, please
- enclose an extra $5.00 to cover for his costs. An additional
- requirement is that he would like a copy of any programs that use his
- file requester.
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- All programs on this disk are freely distributable in their
- original form at no cost.
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- SLBD/sl
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- encl.
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