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- Digital Quill 1.0 DEMO
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- Welcome:
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- Welcome to the demonstration version of Digital Quill. You will have to
- run "Install_Quill" to install it on your system before using it. Then
- just double-click on the Quill icon and play around to your heart's
- content.
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- Quill is a fast, friendly and full-featured text editor. Here's a quick
- rundown of some of the highlights of its feature list:
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- > Very fast text scrolling.
- > Quick disk operations.
- > Fast find and replace.
- > Fully configurable button strip, or "SpeedBar".
- > Completely font adaptive and localized user interface.
- > Complies rigidly with Commodore's user interface style guidelines.
- > Requires at least release 2.1 of the Amiga's OS, and takes full
- advantage of release 3.x features.
- > Complete context sensitive hypertext online help via AmigaGuide.
- > Extensive ARexx interface.
- > Macros can be recorded, played back or hand-written, and be assigned
- to a key combination, a pull-down menu item, or a SpeedBar button.
- > A full array of conventional text editing features:
- · clipboard support
- · choice of true or "fake" tabs and configurable tab size
- · word wrap
- · auto-indent
- · bookmarks
- · case conversion
- · bracket matching, both automatic and on-demand
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- Some changes were made to Quill since the manual was written, which will
- be described here-in, so please take the time to read this file
- completely.
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- Demo Limitations:
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- As this is just a demo of Quill, there are some limitations built into it:
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- · You must respond to a requester when Quill first starts up.
- · Saving and printing files is disabled.
- · Saving your settings is also disabled.
- · Copies to the clipboard via Cut or Copy will be truncated to 500
- bytes.
- · The compiler support macros mentioned below are not included.
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- None of the above limitations exist in the commercial version.
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- Quill Font:
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- An attractive fixed-width font has been included that you may wish to use
- with Quill. It also makes an excellent system font. 9 point and 11 point
- sizes are provided.
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- Sample Macros:
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- Several sample disk macros have been included with Quill. Please read the
- file Sample_Macros for more information on these. You can optionally
- install these using the Installer script.
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- Compiler Support:
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- Also included with Quill are some sample macros for integrating the
- SAS/C++ 6.5x, DICE C 3.0, or Benchmark Module-2 compilers. You can
- optionally install the macros for the compiler of your choice using the
- Installer script.
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- If you enhance any of the included macros, or write some new ones that
- you'd be interested in having included with Quill, please contact Phantom
- Development and we'd be happy to include them with future versions of
- Quill.
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- Purchasing Quill:
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- Digital Quill will be available September 1995 at quality Amiga dealers
- everywhere with a suggested retail price of $59.95 US. If there isn't an
- Amiga dealer in your area, you may purchase Quill directly from the
- publisher by contacting:
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- Phantom Development LLC
- P.O. Box 572
- Plantsville, CT 06479
- U.S.A
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- Phone/FAX: (203)276-8175
- E-Mail: caldi@pcnet.com
- WWW: http://www.pcnet.com/~caldi
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- A Final Note from the Author:
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- The computer software industry has become very big business these days.
- The Amiga software market is still quite small however, which makes it
- very difficult for any piece of software to be successful, due to limited
- number of people we're selling to. I've spent an aweful lot of time in
- creating Digital Quill, and I genuinely hope it will be a tool that people
- will find useful and benefit from. I would also like to be able to make a
- living with it, since I have put so much time and effort into it and
- supporting the Amiga. It is no secret that software piracy hurts
- software developers profoundly, and no where more so than on a small
- market platform like the Amiga. Therefore, allow me to appeal to you to
- support the developers that are willing to stick it out with the Amiga and
- not copy software illegally. Software pirates hurt developers and
- drive them away, and therefore hurt the Amiga as a whole. By supporting
- Amiga developers and not pirating, we can continue to put our efforts into
- creating high quality Amiga applications in the years to come.
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- I've enjoyed creating Digital Quill, and I hope you enjoy using it.
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- -Timothy Aston
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