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Vnews 1.1
2-September-1987
Copyright 1987 By Stephen Vermeulen
3635 Utah Dr. N.W.,
Calgary, Alberta,
CANADA, T2N 4A6
(403) 282-7990.
This program is in the public domain
with the exception that it shall not
be packaged or distributed with any
product that is sold.
Introduction:
A while ago AMUC (the AMiga Users of Calgary) started a section
of their newsletter disk called "The Best of USENET". Several
formats were considered, but in the end the most workable was to
leave the news files alone as individual files. There were two
large problems with this, the first was that the USENET drawer
had a large number of icons and the second was that the directory
took a long time. In order to reduce the number of icons Vnews
was brought to life, with this the user only had to click on one
icon and then he could browse through the files just by clicking
the mouse. Vnews did not solve the directory speed problem, alas
the woes of AmigaDOS!
Syntax from CLI:
Vnews [dir_name [first_file]]
Vnews dir_name
will display the contents of all the files in
the directory named dir_name.
Vnews
will display the contents of all the files in
the current directory.
Vnews dir_name first_file
will allow you to read all the files within the
directory "dir_name" and will start you at
file "first_file"
Syntax from Workbench:
Just point and click. To specify the directory to read the
news files from enter the following line into the TOOL TYPES
field:
DIR=MyDirectoryName
The default width that tabs are to be expanded to is specified
by the following line:
TAB=n
where n is a small positive number.
The reading can start with any particular file, just include
a line like:
FIRST=first_file_name
Source Code:
The source code is available, in fact it should be present on this
disk, if it is not go break someone's legs... This version was
written in Manx 3.4a, the first version was in Lattice 3.1; draw
your own conclusions...
Usage:
When the program is running you control everything with 9 gadgets, all
of which are on the title bar. The close window gadget is used to
exit from the program. The Prev gadget moves you to the previous file
in the directory. The back gadget moves you back one page in the
current file. The fore gadget moves you foward one page in the
current file. The next gadget moves you to the next file in the
directory. The ? gadget prints a brief help window. The blank box
gadget is a file name requester, just click on it, type in a file name
and then when you hit return you will be moved to that particular
file. Finally, the last two gadgets are the standard window
front/back gadgets.
The name of the currently displayed file is displayed in the title
bar too.
Bugs:
Ha! There has to be one some where...
Wishes:
Faster directory building, an internal directory function that would
put up a window of all the file names for you to click on the one
you wanted to view next.