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CygnusSoft Software
Box 363, 1215 Davie St, Vancouver BC CANADA V6E 1N4
July 17, 1987
Dear Mr Fish,
It is good to see someone so dedicated to Amiga software
distribution - we are enclosing a couple of programs here for
inclusion in your library of "Fred Fish" public domain software disks.
We have recently unveiled our latest project: CygnusEd. You may have
heard of us on CompuServe as the people who developed the MandFXP Fast
Fractal graphics program. Well, here are demonstration copies of
both.
Here is an incomplete list of CygnusEd's features:
1. Multiple files can be edited simultaneously.
2. Multiple views of the same file (co-operating).
3. VERY! FAST display.
4. Margins, word-wrap, status-lines, insert/overstrike,dual
keypad interpretations.
5. EXTENSIVE online help.
6. Intuitive commands, full menus, almost all commands can be
accessed via the keyboard.
7. Soft scroll borders (adjustable).
8. Many, many screen width, height variations, including
overscanning.
9. Adjustable tab size, positioning, interpretation as
spaces or as tab characters.
10. Choice of LAYOUT/STANDARD screen operation.
11. Very fast search, replace (with wildcards!).
12. Keyboard/menu MACROS.
13. Storage of preferred settings, macros.
14. Runs from CLI or WorkBench.
15. Text formatting options.
16. Direct ASCII value entry.
17. Block/line/word cut/copy!
18. Vertical (any rectangular region) block operations.
19. Intuitive, flexible cursor operations from keyboard.
20. Adjustable scroll speeds.
21. Hidden escape codes option.
22. Hardcoded function keys containing over 40 common escape
codes.
23. Optional terminate and stay resident - reappear with single
keystroke.
24. The priority of the CygnusEd editor can be set to any
value from -9 to +9 or can simply inherit the default
priority from the workbench or CLI it is run from.
25. Video-display scrolling for ease of use in overscan
screens.
26. Settings and macros can be stored in many different
"defaults" files which are loaded automatically when you
invoke CygnusEd.
CygnusEd runs on 512K, single drive systems and fully supports
extra memory and extra drives.
CygnusEd costs $30.00 US and version 1.12 is available right now.
Updates are done at cost as a service to the customer. The update
cost for CygnusEd will be $10.00 US. This includes an update to the
manual.
We encourage you to distribute this demonstration copy far and
wide, you can include it in your club library and distribute it to
your members. The only difference between the demonstration copy and
the real copy is that the demo will not allow you to save files larger
than 5K in size (but you can still load them and edit in them and try
its performance on large files).
Thanks!
Steve LaRocque
Bruce Dawson
CygnusSoft Software
PS: If you have any questions regarding either CygnusEd or MandFXP,
feel free to give us a call (604-688-1085) or write us.
Programmers who are interested in using the file requester used in
CygnusEd can write to the author, Colin Fox, care of CygnusSoft
Software. Colin charges $10.00 for the source and object code, please
enclose an extra $5.00 to cover for his costs. An additional
requirement is that he would like a copy of any programs that use his
file requester.
All programs on this disk are freely distributable in their
original form at no cost.
SLBD/sl
encl.