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FILENAME: NEW.DOC
This is a supplement to the WWIVEDIT.DOC. This is stuff I didn't have time
to incorporate into the "real" documentation.
This file will look awefully familar to my Beta Testers.
===========================================================================
So what exactly is new?
Gads... Mouse support, defaults section, cleaned up lots of stuff...
And LOTS more.
New Features:
==========================================================================
In the MACROS.LCL file, you can now have 3 different formats for the "macro
name".
Format 1 is the standard 'Name:' format. This format "dumps" the
following lines into the keyboard input buffer... So ESC is interpreted as
it would be if you hit ESC from the keyboard, etc..
Example (alt-E macro):
E:
The Emporer Lives!
:E
Format 2 is a raw format of the form 'Name"'. This format inserts
directly into the text whatever is between the delimiters with the
exception of a tilde at the begining and the end of the line... These are
handled in the same way as the standard format (see 2.2 documentation)
This format was requested by a registered user, so I thought I would just
document it... The real difference between the standard format and this
format is seen when an ESC appears in the "raw" text...
Example (Shift-F5 macro):
$F5"
This is raw ascii
:$F5
Format 3 is a DOS batch macro. It is of the form 'Name;'. This
format is used to run a series of DOS command from within WWIVEdit.
Example (ALT-0 macro)
0;
CD\WWIV\DLOADS\SYSOP
DIR /W
PAUSE
IF EXIST BLAH.ZIP GOTO BLAHLABEL
ECHO BLAH.ZIP isn't here.
PAUSE
EXIT
:BLAHLABEL
ECHO BLAH.ZIP is here.
:0
Each of these formats will be fully documented in the .HLP and .DOC file
before the final release of 2.3. (Yeah Right ;)
==========================================================================
DOS Shell
A DOS shell is now available any time WWIVEdit is waiting for input... Just
hold down CONTROL and ALT, and it will shell out. If you have EMS
available, WWIVEdit will swap itself out to EMS, otherwise it will swap out
to Disk.
Type EXIT to return to WWIVEdit
Note: This has not been tested while a user is on line... I know it will
not properly redraw the screen for the user if one is on (it will redraw
correctly locally), but aside from that, I haven't put it to the test..
===========================================================================
Configuration Files
WWIVEdit now requires configuration files.
Provided in this distribution should be the following config files:
DEFAULT.DEF
DEFAULT.KEY
LOCAL .DEF
LOCAL .KEY
FOSSIL .DEF
ECLIPSE.DEF
DOS .DEF
The .DEF files define which functions of WWIVEdit to enable, and the .KEY
files tell what to map the keys as. WWIVEdit will produce a binary format
of each of these files after it has run once, and will on subsequent runs
load the binary format (because its quicker). If you modify these files
after WWIVEdit has run, it will detect this and recompile the binary
format.
If you want to force an update on them, type from DOS level:
WWIVEDIT -F
The format of these files should be self explanitory by viewing and editing
them.
===========================================================================
Command Line switches
I think I removed every single command line switch from 2.2 (they are now
set in the .DEF files).
Two new command line options have been added (one of which will be obsolete
by the end of Beta testing (hopefully)).
"-key:xxxxx" tells WWIVEdit which key binding to load.
"-set:xxxxx" tells WWIVEdit which settings (.DEF) file to load
So, these should be the only command lines needed for now:
Remote:
WWIVEDIT\WWIVEDIT %1 %2 %3 %4
Local:
WWIVEDIT\WWIVEDIT %1 %2 %3 %4 -key:local -set:local
Note: DEFAULT.* are just that... defaults... so by not putting anything on
the remote line, it defaults to those files. Also, assumes the standard
directory setup described in the 2.2 documentation.
===========================================================================
Dictionary
The dictionary has been changed to allow the larger dictionary promised in
the 2.2 documentation to actually run at a reasonable speed.
The new format employs data compression, hashing, and temporary dictionarys
to achieve speeds much greater than the 2.2 format could. The drawback to
all this is that Suggestions now take longer, and there are less of them...
but they are more likely to be just what you want...
The format of the display has also been greatly altered to make it a bit
quicker to display.
At the last moment, I have decided that there will be no "special" registered
dictionary, so what you see is what you get... that's why this .ZIP is so
damn large!
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