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EdHak Version 2.3 DEMO       23 Feb 1992 (v 2.30)
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This demo version of EdHak 2.3 is fully functional except that it will not
let you save anything from the edit buffer to a file or to disk sectors,
and you can not save a new configuration (which means you are limited
to a 4K buffer size).  However, it can be used for viewing any kind of
files (even larger than your RAM), viewing any area of RAM, and viewing
disk sectors.  It can be run as either an ACC or PRG just by renaming
it.  For those of you who call Compuserve, it is fully functional as an
on-line editor for Compuserve messages when used in conjunction with the
version 1.7 or later of QuickCIS by Jim Ness.

Rather than let yourself get frustrated at not being able to save files
to disk, just take a minute and order the real version.  The price is
$29.95 including shipping in the US.  Outside the US add $3.00 for
shipping.  Inside Michigan, add 4% sales tax ($1.20).  Checks, VISA,
and Mastercard are welcome.  On credit card orders include your card
number, expiration date, and phone number.  On all orders be sure to
include your name and address.  Ordering directly from Clear Thinking
means that you are automatically registered and don't need to bother
with any registration card.  You can order by mail, e-mail, or phone.
Feel free to include any suggested improvements or even bug reports.

Clear Thinking
P.O. Box 715
Ann Arbor, MI  48105
USA

Voice: [phone]

For E-mail orders:
GEnie:       C.HARVEY
CompuServe:  73047,600
Clear Thinking BBS: [phone]

If you use either GEnie or Compuserve, you might want to include your
e-mail address so update notifications can be done that way.  Otherwise,
postcards are used for update notification.  Updates are just $5.00 to
registered users (plus $3.00 shipping if outside US).  If you would like
the new printed manual for version 2.3 add another $5.00.


New for EdHak version 2.30
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1) Functions as a capture buffer for STalker (by Eric Rosenquist,
distributed by Gribnif).  This works either with the EdHak window open
or closed.  To make this work you must set the Steno name in the Stalker
preferences to be the filename of your EdHak accessory MINUS THE .ACC
EXTENSION, then save Stalker's settings, quit Stalker, and then
whenever your run Stalker it will use EdHak as its capture buffer.  When
the EdHak buffer fills, it will ding and give you the options of saving
it to disk and/or clearing it to continue capturing.

If the file you are capturing to in EdHak is named "CAPTURE.TXT" anytime
the buffer fills it will automatically append itself to that file and
then clear itself to continue capturing.

2) Supports the GEM clipboard when doing a block save or merge.  It also
supports the existing Stalker/Steno clipboard which until versions 3.01
& 2.01 was slightly different than the Atari GEM standard clipboard,
because no standard had been set by Atari until recently.  Note that
EdHak does not use the clipboard for cut/paste operations because it
does them in RAM which is much faster if you don't have a ramdisk or
harddrive to use for your clipboard.  When saving something TO the
clipboard, you would generally want to Overwrite any existing SCRAP.TXT
file there, unless you specifically wanted to append and build up a
scrap file from pieces so that the receiving application could get it
all at once rather than one piece at a time.

The keyboard command Shift-Alt-C can be used anytime to set the
Clipboard path or change any existing Clipboard path.

3) Allows conversion of the buffer from characters to hexadecimal values
and vice versa.  You MUST remember to convert back to characters before
saving if you want the original file to be in the form it started as.
Note that conversion TO hex requires the buffer to be twice as large as
the original file, since two hex characters are needed to represent each
original character.

4) Alt-G command does GoTo Line in text mode or GoTo byte offset when in
Hack mode.

5) The Upload to midi function is now accessible from the menu as well
as from the Alt-U keyboard command.

6) Help screens have been made nicer (expanded and more organized).

7) The "Kwiksend" function (Alt-K) has been enhanced considerably:

Kwiksend now allows stripping out the Carriage Return / Linefeed at
the end of each line.  This can be useful when sending text into
something like Pagestream where you may have a different column width
than you had in the original text.  The Kwiksend function now also has a
built-in delay of about 1/2 second to allow the receiving application to
be fully ready to receive text.  When using the option to strip CR/LF,
it will only strip the first of a series of them, so paragraphs
separated by one or more blank lines will remain as separate paragraphs
can be maintained.

Kwiksend can be aborted instantly by hitting the Alt key.

Kwiksend is now available from the menu Quit command if a block
is selected prior to quitting.

Kwiksend now works somewhat with programs it didn't used to work at all
with, such as Tempus.  Please see the COMPAT.TXT file for details on
this if interested.

8) Update date/time stamp when append to an existing file.

9) Shift-alt-A = append whole buffer to current file, no query.
   Shift-alt-S = save buffer to current file, no query. (and no BAK
      unless set for doing BAK in config)

Note that the "current" filename is now ALWAYS displayed in the window
title bar, even when no file has been loaded into the buffer.

10) Alt-A can be used to Append a block or a whole file to a file that
already exists on your disk.  This does the same thing as if you tried
to Save to an existing file and then chose the Append option.

11) Delete-to-end-of-line can now be done with Alt-Delete.

12) Now allows opening a zero length file.

13) The cursor now changes to an underline shape to let you KNOW when
you are in overwrite instead of insert mode.

14) The mouse arrow now disappears while typing and reappears when
you click or move the mouse.

16) The Hack mode status display of offset and character value are now
both in decimal, with an option for both being in hex.

17) The insert date command now has an option for MM/DD/YY or DD Mon YY
display.

18) Auto-indent mode for programming is available by hitting Alt-Return.
That also toggles back to normal mode when desired.

19) The half-screen size window now remembers where it was after going
to full screen.

20) When saving a new buffer size, the EdHak acc or prg file can now be
named anything.  If it doesn't find the expected name (EDHAK230.PRG/ACC)
it puts up a file selector.  Note that it will only look in the path
that the program ran from, regardless of what you try to do via the file
selector.

21) Many bugs fixed.
Fixes a couple bugs in the code related to files bigger than the
buffer.  I noticed the first bug when I went into an infinite loop
during a Find operation after doing some cutting/pasting and saving of a
big file.  The second bug caused problems if you deleted enough text
from the buffer to leave less than 1K remaining in the buffer and then
shifted to the next or previous block of the file.

Fixes a bug in the search routine that could overlook a match near
the end of the buffer when search/loading a file bigger than the buffer.

Fixed *.**.* path on Launch prg & set clipbrd path.
Fixed the crash that would occur under some circumstances when
  returning to ACC after Launching a program.
Fixed Hack mode handling of Delete or Backspace at start of a line.
Fixed:  Doing a case sensitive search of a file larger than the
  buffer, it will now find matches properly even after you have moved
  beyond the initial buffer contents.
Fixed:  A bug that could cause a crash when replacing a CR/LF at
  the end of the file with just a Carriage Return.
Fixed (hopefully) a bug which would cause a crash if EdHak was the very
  first window you opened after a reboot (before even opening any drive
  window), and then you saved something from EdHak to an existing
  filename, and then after quitting EdHak you tried to run any other
  program from the desktop.  If what I believe I found is true, this was
  due to a strange little glitch in TOS.
Various other minor fixes.


EdHak version 2.25  02 Oct 1991
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1) The Find/Replace function now can take you through an entire file
larger than the buffer, rather than having to 'manually' move to each
successive block of the file before searching it.

2) The View RAM function now allows continuing a search easily through
the rest of RAM if the match found is not the one you want.

3) When clearing the buffer (Alt-C), you are now asked if you want to
save the contents first if anything has changed.

4) The Upload function (Alt-U) now has an option to output to the midi
port.  This MIGHT be useful to midi hackers for dumping a command or two
or a chosen block of a midi file to a midi device.  For example, one
might be able to have a macro that contains the all notes off command,
then send that macro if something hangs and continues to blare some
unpleasant noise.  Right now this is totally untested since I have no
midi device to use.  If you do, let me know if it works.

5) Tab <=> Space conversion.  Just hit Ctl-Tab.  Make sure that the
number of spaces per tabstop has been set the way you want it (Alt-Tab).
I apologize for the lack of speed on this one; it will be better in the
future.

6) Deletion of a single character no longer goes into the paste buffer
- thus simply hitting Delete or Backspace no longer ruins whatever you
might have just put into the paste buffer with a block cut (or delete
line) operation.

7)  New command:  Backspace or Delete does a block delete, just like F4.
A bug had been introduced in 2.20 that caused a crash when backspacing
or deleting in a highlighted block.  In the process of fixing that bug,
I decided the time had come to add the Backspace block deletion since
that is becoming fairly standard in many editors on various brands of
computers.  Hitting Backspace or Delete when a block is highlighted now
deletes (i.e., cuts) that block into the paste buffer exactly as F4
does.

8)  Version 2.20 is finally a fully TT compatible version (ALL ST & TT
resolutions).  The internal text display method is totally different,
but in most respects it displays text at about the same speed as old
versions.  However, when using QuickST or TurboST the display is
even faster than it ever has been, since now it can take full
advantage of those speedup utilities.

9)  This version adds an interface for use by other programmers to allow
FAST transfer of text directly between EdHak and their application.
Version 1.70 of "QuickCIS" by Jim Ness released in late 1991 is the
first to make use of this interface.  This allows users who have both
EdHak and QuickCIS to use EdHak as the text editor within QuickCIS for
composing messages on CompuServe without having to use any intermediate
disk files.

Of course, EdHak itself can also make use of this feature if you find a
need for it.  Just name the ACC version EDHAK.ACC and load it as you
would load any ACC (i.e., reboot with it on your boot drive, or
load it into something like MultiDesk).  Then if you run EdHak as a
PRG and type Shift-Alt-K, you will automatically open up EDHAK.ACC and
transfer anything from the PRG buffer into the ACC buffer.  Then when
you close the ACC window, the contents of the ACC buffer will
automatically transfer back into the PRG buffer.  If a block had been
selected in the ACC, only that block will be transferred back to the
PRG.  To have more control over what happens, you might prefer just
saving the buffer or block to a disk file and merging from there or
using the Kwiksend (Alt-K) command described below to send a block from
ACC to be inserted in the PRG buffer without altering whatever might
already be in the PRG buffer.

10)  The print and upload routines have been cleaned up a bit to allow
easier restarting if the printer is off-line at the beginning and to
allow suspending or aborting a printout at any time by hitting the
Escape or Undo key.

11)  The keypad Enter key now responds exactly the same as the Return
key.


Following are the major added features and associated commands between
versions 2.00 and 2.20.

1)  Version 2.1 introduced unlimited buffer size, rather than the 64K
limit of earlier versions.  As before, this is adjusted in the New
Config dialog, and needs to be saved to the ACC or PRG file named
specifically EDHAK220.ACC or EDHAK220.PRG.  After saving the desired
buffer size, you may name it anything else you like, such as EDHAK.ACC.

2)  Version 2.13 introduced the "Kwiksend" feature (Alt-K), which is a
way to send a block (any size) of text from EdHak running as an ACC to
any other open application or accessory that can accept text input from
the keyboard, without having to save it to an intermediate disk file.
By using the keyboard buffer, your other application or accessory
receives the text just as if you typed in the characters.  This is not
yet available from a menu command, just from the keyboard Alt-K command.

3)  Version 2.05 was the first to be compatible with large screen
devices such as the Moniterm monitor or emulators such as MonSTEr by
Darek Mihocka.


Last Words
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And now for the disclaimer:  This software and documentation have no
warranty of anything (unless of course the disk or a file on it is bad, in
which case I will gladly provide a replacement).  You use it at your own
risk.   Since it can not possibly be checked out with every hardware and
software combination in existence, we can only offer to try to fix any
bugs that you find and report.

Finally, many many thanks to all the users who have supported the
continued development of EdHak and Diary with shareware registrations,
retail purchases, bug reports, wish lists, helpful information, and
friendly communication.

The Future...
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Updates will remain at $5.00, plus an additional $5.00 if you want a
new manual (a new one is planned for version 2.3).

More is in the works -- 3.0 is still under development, and on your disk
is a VERY early development version of it as it now exists (called
EdWin) that may well be the smallest semi-useful text editor you've ever
seen.

Metapsychology ??
-----------------
Another product available from Clear Thinking is the Metapsychology
Primer #1, which includes a personality analysis and metapsychology
tutorial with 9 picture-filled lessons and mental exercises covering
topics such as emotions, success, and the six domains of life.  This is
expected to be the first in a series.  The pre-commercial version that
has been sold at Atari shows around the country is available for just
$12.00 US.


EdHak and Diary copyright (c) 1990-1992 by:

Clear Thinking
Author: Craig Harvey

GEnie:  c.harvey  (EdHak support area is CAT 2, Topic 40 of ST Roundtable)
CompuServe: 73047,600
Clear Thinking BBS: 313-971-6035
Voice: 313-971-8671 (early evenings is best unless you want the machine)

Clear Thinking
P.O. Box 715
Ann Arbor, MI  48105
USA