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This is a working version of yet another text display program, developed
for the usual reasons - dissatifaction with all the other available text
display programs available. It is an evolution of the Amiga LESS 1.0
program released on one of the early "Fish" disks.
The requirements of a text display program from our point of view are :
1) Source in public domain
2) Equal support keyboard and mouse control of all functions
3) Reasonably small, and friendly to multitasking
4) Use available features properly
(ie sizing & close gadget, arrow & help keys used sensibly)
5) Provide at least the following features
Foward/Backward scrolling by line & page (from mouse & keyboard)
Jump to position in file, eg top, bottom, line num., %, marked spot
Foward/Backward search
Either wrap words at the right margin OR allow sideways scrolling
Read multiple files, using CLI wildcards, and WB extended selection
6) Display ANSI escape sequences reasonably
7) Display files of arbitary length (ie bigger than available memory)
8) Acknowledge ^L's (\0x0c) as page breaks
9) No endless loops or other 'hangs' if trying to display a 'binary' file.
10)No GURUing or upsetting GOMF by stomping on low memory addresses!
Many additional features would be nice, eg
Iconizable window
Residentable
Display/Sound etc IFF picture/sound files
Display other binary files as a HEX dump
Well this program doesn't meet all the above (YET!), it does support most
of LESS's features (but not piping), and doesn't have any of LESS's major
deficiencies (no intuition support, strange keyboard control). But it does
support almost all of items 1 to 10 above.
Try it and tell us what's wrong, development is on going, hopefully oneday
we'll have something that satifies most of our requirements.
There's little documentation included, check out the help (from the help key
of course!), and look at the ty.gadgets.pic if you're not sure about things,
but of course it's more fun to try out the gadgets and find out what happens!
See also the Projects & ProjectsDir from our C programmers section of our
Newsdisk (NZAmigaUG #24).
To my knowledge it doesn't have any serious bugs, but may have a lot of
deficiencies. Would you kind folks act as Beta testers and tell us what
you find.
Contact ajwills on BIX, or write or ring :
John Bickers Tony Wills
214 Rata Street 156c Queens Drive
Naenae Lyall Bay
Lower Hutt Wellington 3
NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND
phone (NewZealand)4-672-085 phone (New Zealand)4-877-258
NB the compiled version of ty included in this ZOO is a slight update of
that represented by the source files, it now supports ^L page breaks.