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BLITZ 1.0 Text Viewer
by Hayes Haugen, copyright 1987
BLITZ is a small program that is designed to be loaded into memory and that
sits in the background until activated by its hotkey. It can also be used
as a CLI type command. Blitz allows you to view a text file, much like a
TYPE command, only that it lets you move forwards and backwards through
the file, much like an editor. Blitz's screen updates are the fastest on the
Amiga. Blitz uses: Look at INCLUDE files quickly and easily, look at all the
source and readme files you download, use the standard file to find out what's
on a disk when the program you're using doesn't show you, open a cli at any
time, pop up Blitz when running Textcraft; allows you to gain access to your
Workbench with amiga M & N and lets you see what's on your disk, use it from
your editor to look at more files. Blitz has hundreds of uses, when I started
writing it I had know idea how useful it really would be. I am not
exaggerating! I don't care if I am biased, but I couldn't imagine using
an Amiga without Blitz.
Activation from the CLI is as easy as:
Blitz <filename> -b
Where filename is the file you want, and -b (optional) enters background mode
immediately. If no filename is specified, Blitz presents a standard file
requester. If you want to keep Blitz in the background, you should RUN Blitz.
An icon is included for execution from the Workbench.
Menus:
Open - Gets you a file requester. Directories are shown in bold,
double click on names to enter directories or select files.
Save - Saves your file under its loaded name.
Save As - Gets you a file requester. Saves your file under selected name.
Print - Not yet implemented (aaah!)
About - Tells you to send me money (please do).
Help - Tells you keyboard controls.
Open a CLI - Must have Newcli command in your c: directory.
Quit - Closes doc, window and screen, enters background.
Background - Preserves doc, closes window and screen, enters background.
Fast Keys - Makes keys repeat as fast as possible (or just use SHIFT).
Word Wrap - Turns word wrap on or off.
Video Sync - Turns video sync on or off. Try it both ways to see it's
effects. Hard to do true video syncing nicely on a multi-
tasking system.
Tabs - Sets # of spaces between tab stops (not # of spaces for a tab).
Strip HiBits Removes the hi bits from your files. Use if a file contains
a lot of garbage characters, helps sometimes.
Strip CR - Removes carriage returns from your document, sometimes
neccessary for files that came from other systems.
Convert CR to LF - Changes carriage returns into line feeds, sometimes
neccessary for files that came from other systems.
All this for only 17K!
To restore Blitz from the background press left amiga and F3.
Use Blitz, discover how useful it is. Give it to all your friends, post it
on all the boards, put it on public domain compilations, THEN if you
decide to keep it, send me $10 (if you don't keep it, I guess you can't
read):
Hayes Haugen
11303 South Dogwood Lane
Edmonds, WA 98020
In return you will receive the latest version of Blitz with more features
and no bugs (I'm not aware of any right now, but of course some will show up),
complete, printed documentation, and notification of updates and other
shareware products.
Please send me suggestions for other ShareWare programs that you would like to
see. Currently I am considering: keyboard macros in for use in any program,
warm-boot recoverable ram: disk, screen grabber that is better than grabbit,
and an editor/word processor (see below). I would also like to know what
features you would like in the programs, and how much you would be willing
to pay for it. The program with the most suggestions will be the next
ShareWare product I release.
I am just finishing a wonderful editor that has superfast screen updates,
multiple windows, multiple documents, short code ( <50K ), and that is all
in all better than any other editor for the Amiga, commercial or not. If
enough people send me money for Blitz, I will release this editor as
ShareWare for $20 or less. If not, it will be published commercially and
you will have to pay at least twice as much, so send your money in! Support
a poor programmer.
SHAREWARE: Someday, all software will be like this.
Blitz is copyright 1987 by Hayes Haugen. All rights are reserved except for
non-commercial distribution from individual to individual as described above.
Blitz is NOT public domain and may NOT be sold. Blitz is sold/distributed
without any warranties as to it's usefulness and functionality.