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Welcome to Blackbeard/2. We hope you will enjoy using the high performance
easy to use editor, Blackbeard/2. In addition to Blackbeard/2 your diskette
contains several useful programs and files. The following is a brief
description of these programs.
BB2MAN.CMD will generate the Blackbeard/2 documentation into a file called
BB2.DOC.
S2GMAN.EXE is the documentation generator. SGMAN.DOC explains how to use the
generator to generate the Blackbeard/2 manual.
The current language files is for C. Contributions are welcomed for these
languages, or any other you may use, e.g., Pascal, BASIC.
If you are an OEM, e.g., a compiler developer, we are very interested in having
you include Blackbeard with your product. We are also interested in developing
customized versions of Blackbeard to meet your specific product requirements.
Please contact us so that we may mutually benefit from each other expertise.
We are very flexible in our working arrangements, and understand the dynamic
nature of the personal computer software market.
About version 1.10 +
This version includes all known bug fixes, and contains several major
enhancements.
1. MACROS. The Macro facility has been completely rewritten to support long
names for macros and more sophisticated read/write storage. This facility
although new to Blackbeard/2 has been thoroughly tested for several
months in other products.
2. HELP. The Help facility has been completely rewritten to support a
hypertext stlye of exploration. The speed of search has been accomplished by
using a B+ tree index file. The actual contents of the help file have been
substantially revised as well.
3. COMPILE/REVIEW. Cleaned up, and tested. Some memory saving tricks used.
Works well with Compilers generating standard error output and the grep
program.
4. LANGUAGE TEMPLATES. The language templates have been significantly
improved to support duplication and optional symbols. A function to insert
the first language symbol directly is also available.
5. KEY BINDING. Blackbeard/2 now supports multi level key binding.
Notice that Alt-L is a meta-key for the language template functions. Although
multi-level binding is not available at the user level yet (available real soon
now), this enhancement will make enhancement installation easier. More
importantly, key binding is now available inside Blackbeard/2 directly.
The Blackbeard compiler is gone.
6. LOG. The Captain's Log is a remarkable addition that provides the ability
to undo file changes, even across editing sessions. The log has been tested
since version 1.03 of Captain Blackbeard. It is very stable, although only
minimal error checking is currently performed. If logging is always left on,
it works completely transparently. Just clean up the logging directories once
in a while.
As always, we appreciate your support and hope you enjoy using the program.
Please report any difficulties, or suggestions. Farewell!