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%t Guide! Information
%n 2R0
%s Short blurb about this THHGTTKG reader program
%a Steve Baker (swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu)
%d 19930525
%x Article Writing Guide For Field Researchers And Guide Editors
%x Guide! Documentation File
%f 10
%i New Features in this version of The Guide!
%e
This is another enhanced, updated release of The Guide!, an article display,
query, print, etc. system for Project Galactic-Guide (bringing to life
"The HitchHiker's Guide to the Known Galaxy").
The current version number is 1.45, compiled 05/25/93.
The Guide! is distributed as [ TGxxx.ZIP ] where the xxx represents the
current version number. In this case, the filename is: TG145.ZIP
This .ZIP file contains these files:
GUIDE.EXE -- the main program
GUIDE.DOC -- all-too-brief documentation file
UPDATE.EXE -- GuideNET update/report/delete utilities
READ.ME -- quickie start-up dox for the impatient
*.NEW -- sample entries and articles
*****************************************************************************
R E V I S I O N H I S T O R Y
Version 1.45 (Maintenance Release), 05/25/93
* Added a new command-line parameter to Guide.EXE: [ /ShowLoad ].
This makes TG! display the Load dialog box upon startup. It's very
handy for network use when you have multiple GuideNET files on-line
and don't want to have a bunch of different batch files, each with
a different [ /LOAD= ] parameter. Cool.
* Fixed a weird glitch in Update.EXE, when it'd sometimes halt
during updating with a run-time error 205. When I messed around
with it for a while, and tried some different stuff, the error
stopped happening, so that must mean it's fixed <grin>.
* Work is slow but steady on TGEdit (that's what the IAE stuff has
evolved into these days). It's going to be GREAT!
* This is the last release of TG! with all the PGG article archives
included. From now on (or I should say, from next time on), the
file TGxxx.ZIP will only have TG!-specific files, and the archives
will be distributed in ARCHIVES.ZIP for MS-DOS users.
Version 1.45, 05/12/93
* Pulled all of the Internal Article Editor (IAE) stuff out of Update
and into its own separate program. Too many conflicts and memory
junk got in the way... the new program will be called either Editor
or IAE (haven't decided yet), and is *not* included in this release
because it's not complete yet. However, it is coming along rather
nicely, and should be ready in another few weeks.
* Redesigned the "Date Parameters" dialog box to use the user-definable
Date Pattern information. The dialog box is a lot easier to work
with now, and it still verifies that the date information you enter
is correct, based on the current Date Pattern.
The Date Parameters dialog box now insures that you enter a valid day
depending on what month you enter (i.e., you can not enter 04/31/yy
since April does not have 31 days, and you can only enter 02/29/yy
when the year yy is a leap year, etc.).
* Added a toggle in the Standard Options dialog box which allows you
to disable the multiple-key speed search and use single-key speed
search instead. The option in Guide.INI is 'UseMultiKey' and
defaults to True.
* Added a toggle in the Standard Options dialog box which disables some
of the "Don't Panic" status messages (for the discriminating network
administrators and other tight folks). The option in Guide.INI is
called 'ShowStatusMsg' and defaults to True. Some critical messages
still get displayed regardless of this setting, however.
* Added a new command-line parameter [ /Config=path\ ] which tells
the system where to load and save both the Guide.INI file and the
search parameters. If you omit this parameter, or if the path you
specify is invalid, then TG! will (try to) load Guide.INI from the
directory where Guide.EXE (or Update.EXE) was loaded.
Note that instead of the equal sign ('=') you can optionally use
a colon (':')... this is because DOS batch files treat the equal
sign as a delimiter, so the parameter [ /config=c:\fred ] gets
parsed into two parameters, [ /config ] and [ c:\fred ] when run
inside a batch file. Bummer. (This also applies to the /Load=
and the /Auto= parameters.)
Version 1.42, 04/24/93
* Added a Standard Options dialog box, available in the File pull-down
menu. This is where you can set the remainder of the variables from
the Guide.INI configuration file. In addition, I moved the "Save
Configuration" toggle out of the Verify Exit dialog box and into
this Standard Options box. (This is similar to the change made from
Windows 3.0 to 3.1.)
* (Here we go again...) Re-did the Cross-References again, because
they weren't always being alphabetized in the Ctrl+F4 screen
(which they should have) and I noticed a few Cross-References were
not being double-linked back (which they should have).
When loading GuideNET data, you'll notice a significant increase in
speed. This is because I completely reorganized the way in which
Cross-References are stored. Cool.
Everything's now OK, but this means that your existing (old) GuideNET
files must be scrapped (deleted) before this new release of TG! will
operate. Bummer.
1) Delete : *.DAT, *.HDR, *.XRF, *.IDX, *.SNC
2) Run : Update /AUTO
* Continued to update the Guide.NEW/Guide.DOC documenation file, and
included stuff on this new dialog box and the command-line switches.
Version 1.40, 04/18/93
* DESQview support now incorporated into the system. TG! will always
release its idle clock cycles if DV is detected. Note that TG! does
not issue any DV "Critical Region" commands to clog up your system,
since TG! is happy just to do its thing when allowed by DV. To view
what version of DV you're using, see the File | Get Info... screen.
* TG!'s Network support is now greatly enhanced by, well, having some.
The new boolean variable in the Guide.INI configuration file is
'NetworkSync' which defaults to False. If you don't have a network,
don't bother playing with this switch, because you'll only slow down
your article retrieval process a little bit.
I'm not going to go into what it does here; instead, see "The Guide!
and Networks," section 7.0 in the Guide.DOC/Guide.NEW documentation
files (which have been updated with the network information, plus a
full section about the Guide.INI configuration file, as well as typo
corrections and other little things).
* Now you can press the [ Esc ] key to close article windows in the
Guide.EXE program. (Of course, the conventional ways to close the
windows still work also; this is just another way.) In addition, if
you press [ Esc ] to close the last/only article, then TG! will
close the article and bring up either the Index or the Table of
Contents (depending on if you use the [ /TOC ] parameter and if
the "StartWithTOC" variable in Guide.INI is True or False, etc.).
Version 1.37, 04/12/93
* Added an additional help screen which lists some of the article
window commands (stuff you can do when an article is up on-screen).
It's available in the Help | Window Commands... pull-down menu,
and by pressing [ Ctrl+F1 ].
* Fixed a minor glitch in the 'OutputPath' variable handling. It
would not accept the path you specify if it had a final backslash;
the system is now tolerant of these if present. Thus, you can define
[ C:\GUIDE ] or [ C:\GUIDE\ ] and the system will accept either one,
assuming of course that the drive and/or directory is valid.
* Fixed a minor conflict between the Guide.INI configuration file
and use of the [ /LOAD= ] command-line parameter. The system used
to override the /LOAD= command with whatever was defined in the .INI
file; this has been reversed (the /LOAD= now overrides the .INI).
* More little stuff here and there. One of the neat things: the status
line at the bottom of the screen now is updated while an action is
being performed (ie, retrieving, printing, or saving an article;
searching the GuideNET; adding articles in Update.EXE; etc).
*****************************************************************************
I encourage everyone to respond to this program; I'm open to receiving --
* compliments on what a cool frood I must be for writing this
* complaints on how this is worse that Vogon poetry, and how I must
be "a jerk, a complete knee-biter" for writing this
* suggestions for everything from hot-key reassignments, to features
that you want added or removed, and anything else that your roving
minds can contrive
* bug detections, and other dastardly things
Please contact me at [ swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu ] or on local bulletin
board systems (in the 313 area of Michigan, USA) -- handle 'swbaker'.
The FTP site where this sucker can be found is --
lexical: vela.acs.oakland.edu
numeric: 141.210.10.2
in the [ /pub/galactic-guide/theguide ] directory.
Be sure to 'login anonymous' and be in BINARY mode (ie, type [ binary ])
before you 'get tgxxx.zip'....
Share and Enjoy!!!!
Steve
swbaker@vela.acs.oakland.edu
"Gravity brings me down..."
%e
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