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- ABC for the Atari ST
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-
- There are four files supplied: abc.tos, the program itself,
- abc.msg, the error message file, abc.hlp the help file, and
- abckeys.tos, the program to redefine the keybindings for the ABC
- editor.
-
- If you start ABC up from the desktop, the messages file must be either in the
- same directory as the abc.tos file, or in the workspaces directory abc.
- If you start ABC up from a shell, the messages file must be in the
- current directory, or in the abc directory.
-
- If you start ABC up from the desktop, and you want to use the options
- given above, like -w, you should rename abc.tos to abc.ttp.
-
- There is an additional facility for redirecting input and output:
- the parameter >outfile redirects all output from ABC to the file
- called outfile, and similarly <infile takes its input from the
- file called infile.
-
- Unfortunately, there is a bug in earlier versions of the Atari
- desktop: all lower-case letters passed as parameters are converted to
- upper-case. This means that you would not be able to use any of the
- lower-case letter options -w -r -i -o -l.
-
- For this reason, the Atari ST version also accepts the options -I -O
- -L, as equivalent to the lower-case versions.
-
- Unfortunately, -W and -R are already in use, and so to get the effect
- of -w and -r, you should use -X and -S (the next letters in the
- alphabet after W and R).
-
- This restriction only applies if you start ABC up from the desktop.
- Starting it from a shell, you can use lower-case letters as usual.
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