Gold Fish 2/goldfish_vol2_cd1.bin/files/util/cli/quip/to.do

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Quip 0.07e is very powerful, but I still have a few more things I want to
do with it before I feel I've finished:

* GUI front end (I know, weird, but someone asked for it).

* Utility to handle the manipulation of quips (deletion, addition, and
modification of quips), using the user's favorite text editor.  This will
probably be incorporated with the GUI.

* Filter program to create text boxes, justification, ANSI stuff, and
whatnot.  Much of this can be done without the need for a filter program,
but it's sorta one of those programming challanges for me.  It will be
implemented as a separate program.

* Various bug fixes, as they become discovered.

* Compression/decompression of datafiles through Xpr protocol libraries,
so huge half-meg datafiles can be shrunk without having to wait too long
for decompression, yet still offer a choice of decompression algorythms
in case something better comes out.  Pity xprarchive.library hasn't been
written yet <sigh>.. I could use it for this project.

* Conversion utility from other datafile formats to Quip.  This will
probably be incorporated with the GUI and routines for handling compressed
quips.  In fact, I expect that Quip's current datafile format will be
altered completely to conform to IFF conventions, so a conversion program
will be necessary.  The advantage, of course, is that users will be able
to use '@' symbols in their datafiles.  I'll probably also create a
conversion program to take QuipScript files and make them into IFF files,
so one IFF file could hold both a QuipScript and a DataFile (just as the
text forms can now).  The GUI will probably make programming QuipScripts
easier as compensation.  Still need to work on the ideas for this.

- Trey