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- IBM ANSI Offline Text File Reader for the AMIGA
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- Copyright 1990, Glenn S. Kauffman
- ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
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- Distribution:
- This program is available to the public as SHAREWARE, therefore, its
- distribution is encouraged, provided no profit is made, excluding
- nomial costs for copying and handling.
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- Usage Rights:
- Anyone is free to use this program for a period of time, not to exceed
- 30 days, for the purpose of evaluation. After such a time, usage rights
- are revoked pending registration and a small fee of ten dollars to the
- author. This cost is intentionally low and includes rights for all future
- updates as they become available.
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- Comments:
- Comments, complaints, and praise may be sent to the author in one of three
- ways.
- EMAIL to: CompuServe 72030,2236
- RelayNet(Amiga Conf.)
- Berks Amiga (215)372-4553
- For registration:
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- U.S. MAIL to Glenn S. Kauffman
- 4703 Tenth Ave.
- Temple, PA 19560
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- Revision History:
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- First release version 0.1 on August 31, 1990.
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- Second release version 0.2 on September 20, 1990.
- * changed gadget title and gadget bar colors.
- * removed console and added 16 color capasity.
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- Future Enhancements: (pending user support through registration)
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- * user selectable fonts.
- * flashing text.
- * scroll gadget with user selectable buffer size.
- * improved file requester.
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- ALL SUGGESTED ENHANCEMENTS WILL BE CONSIDERED FOR FUTURE VERISIONS
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- Many have found the distinct difference between IBM ANSI and AMIGA ANSI the
- hard way. Most BBS's support ANSI in one form or another, unfortunatly for
- Amiga users this form is usually the IBM standard. Captured text must be
- filtered or stripped of the ANSI codes received from these boards, before it
- may be read offline on the Amiga. IBM ANSI Reader displays IBM ANSI text and
- graphic animations they way they were meant to be viewed, in full color and
- motion. Of coarse, it is equally ept at displaying normal Amiga text and
- ANSI codes. Now, you don't have to strip the art. Display it !
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- IBM ANSI Reader may be invoked from the workbench by double clicking it's
- icon. If used from the cli, shell, or a script, ANSI Reader will accept one
- filename as an arguement. Upon loading, click the left mouse button in the
- title window, if provided with arguments, ANSI Reader will start displaying
- your text. If called from workbench, click on the title window, then select
- 'Load'. A standard file requester will prompt for a file and the display will
- begin.
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- Gadget Bar:
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- Load - calls a file requester and displays the chosen file.
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- Again - restarts the current file from the beginning.
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- Pause - halts the current output temporarily, until Pause is selected
- again.
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- Stop - aborts current file display. May be started with 'Again'.
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- Quit - exits ANSI Reader.
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- Mechanics:
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- File size limitations are a function of disk size. ANSI Reader uses a
- 256 byte buffer to input files. Displays are translated and generated
- dynamically, from this buffer, in effort to reduce the memory overhead
- of this program. It is possable to view files of tremendous length.
- Future revision may include an index parameter into larger files.
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- If the SHAREWARE effect of distributing this program proves successfull,
- I may consider programming an IBM ANSI Writer for the AMIGA.
- Glenn S. Kauffman
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