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J-Write for Windows - a product of MWA Software.
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This is J-Write for Windows - a fast well featured editor for general text files
and EMail. J-Write is both a useful application and a demonstration of a set of
components for Borland Delphi.  J-Write supports editing of very large files, any
ANSI Font, configurable tab settings and four line wrap modes, concurrent editing
of multiple files, multi-level undo/redo and many other features.

Shareware, From MWA Software.

mailto:[e-mail].
http://www.demon.co.uk/mwa-soft

ONLINE HELP IS ALSO AVAILABLE IN THE FILE jwrite.hlp.

This file contains the following information:

1. ABOUT THE JWRITE EDITOR
2. INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS
3. REMOVING J-WRITE
4. PRICING INFORMATION
5. HOW TO REGISTRATION
6. SECURE REGISTRATION

1. ABOUT THE JWRITE EDITOR
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Microsoft Windows provides two built-in text editors - Notepad and MS Write
(Wordpad in Windows 95). Notepad is a simple plain text editor for small
files, while MS Write is a small word processor. However, they both suffer
from what might be called the Goldilocks paradox, neither is just right.

NotepadÆs problem is that it is not powerful enough. It is unable to open
text files of any significant size. Activity logs and Bulletin Board
Directories are but two of the file types that Notepad habitually rejects
due to the file being too big.

On the other hand, MS Write is too powerful (and often too slow) for simply
displaying or editing simple text files - and - if you are not careful -
you can too easily save a modified file in MS WriteÆs own format and not
simple ASCII text.

There is a need for a Windows text editor that is "just right". Powerful
enough to edit text files of any size, but not too feature loaded as to
slow it down. Enter J-Write. J-Write aims to be the text editor that
is "just right". There is no limit on the file size that you can edit. You
can jump from one end to the other in the same time as you can jump to the
next page, and free text searches of megabytes of data just have to be seen
to be believed.

J-Write supports free and easy text editing. All the usual edit keys are
there and word wrap is automatic. Lines may be wrapped on actual line
breaks, on screen boundaries, on printer page boundaries (true WYSIWYG), or
after so many characters. You can flow lines of text into paragraphs and
saved edited files as paragraph text or line oriented text. Any ANSI
Windows font is supported, both variable and fixed pitch. You can also set
tabs to any position you want.

The mouse is well supported with drag and drop editing. Clipboard support
is naturally provided, and there are multiple user setable undo and redo
levels, if you need to undo editing operations.

J-Write also has special extensions for EMail. You can merge in existing
text files either as they are, or with each line prefixed by a "Mail
Quotes" string. Text pasted from the clipboard can similarly have a Mail
Quotes prefix. Binary files can also be uuencoded prior to merging. Both
text and binary files can also be compressed using your favourite
compression utility, before the uuencode engine is applied. UUDecode can
also be performed on any text currently in the edit window.

J-Write comes with online context-sentive help.

J-Write is marketed as shareware. You have a licence to use it for

thirty days after which you should either register it or stop using it.
There is no Nagware other than an initial About Box, and registration
depends on your honesty. But it is to your advantage to register. Firstly,
the registration of shareware ensures that more low cost high quality
programs are produced. Secondly, registered users of J-Write get the
J-Write editing engine as a Delphi Component. The text editor can then
be incorporated in any of your  applications. The full source code is also
available.

J-Write provides:

* Fast editing of large files - up to the maximum DOS and Windows can
  support, while using only a few Kilobytes for each open file.

* Editing of multiple text files

* Four word wrap algorithms, including a WYSIWYG wrap on printer page width

* Support of any ANSI font including variable pitch fonts, and configurable tab
  settings

* EMail extensions including automatic insertion of quote prefixes, reformatting
  of EMail Messages and uuencode/decode

* Zoom In and Out

* Multi-level undo/redo with no limit other than available memory

* Bookmarks, jump to any page or line number, and fast search/replace, including
  searching for tabs, page breaks and line breaks

* Word captialise, text flow, conversion of soft to hard line breaks, and
  many other valuable features.

* Normal and block mode selection of text with both the keyboard and the mouse.

J-Write is also available as a set of Delphi and C++Builder components, making its
powerful editing engine available to Delphi Developers. J-Write components are
available for both 16-bit applications and 32-bit applications.

2. INSTALLATION
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J-Write comes with its own setup program and installation should be
largely automatic. If you obtained J-Write from a Bulletin Board, then
it is likely that the installation files will be contained in a single
pkzip archive. You must first use the pkunzip program to expand the archive
into either a temporary directory, or on to a single floppy disk (a 720KB
diskette will be sufficient).

Minimum system requirements: Windows 3.1, 600KB free disk space.

The setup procedures are different depending on whether you are installing
under Windows 3.x, or Windows 95/NT. Please note that there are different versions
for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95/NT.

Installation under Windows 3.x
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When installing under Windows 3.x, you must install J-Write from Program
Manager. Select the RUN menu item from Program Manager's FILE menu and
enter the file name and path of the J-Write setup program.

For example, if you are installing from a Diskette in drive A:, you will
enter:

A:\SETUP.EXE

Alternatively, if you have expanded the archive into a temporary directory,
then you will enter the path of the temporary directory instead. For
example, if this directory is called "tmpsetup" and is on drive C:, then
you will enter:

C:\tmpsetup\setup.exe


Press OK.

The setup program will now run. You will be prompted for the directory in
which to install J-Write. In most cases, the suggested default will
suffice. You will also be prompted for permission to install J-Write as
your default text file viewer and print program. If you answer yes to this
prompt, then whenever you click on a .txt file in File Manager, J-Write
will be called to display it for you. Similarly, if you select PRINT from
File Manager's FILE menu and a .txt file is selected, the J-Write will
be called to print the file using whatever font and paper margins you set
when you last used J-Write.

Installation under Windows 95/NT
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When installing under Windows 95, you should install J-Write using the
Add/Remove Programs applet on the Control Panel. If you are installing from
a Diskette, then the applet should find the setup program automatically.
Follow the on screen instructions to start the J-Write setup program.

Alternatively, if you have expanded the archive into a temporary directory,
then you will need to assist the Add/Remove Programs applet and explicitly
enter the path of the temporary directory or Browse for it instead. For
example, if this directory is called "tmpsetup" and is on drive C:, then you
will enter:

C:\tmpsetup\setup.exe


Press Finish

The setup program will now run. You will be prompted for the directory in
which to install J-Write. In most cases, the suggested default will
suffice. You will also be prompted for permission to install J-Write as
your default text file viewer and print program. If you answer yes to this
prompt, then whenever you click on a .txt file in Explorer, J-Write
will be called to display it for you. Similarly, if you select PRINT from
Explorer's FILE menu and a .txt file is selected, then J-Write will
be called to print the file using whatever font and paper margins you set
when you last used J-Write.

3. REMOVING J-WRITE
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In the unlikely event that you will want to remove J-Write, removal is
straightforward. An uninstall program will have been installed by the installation
program and this may be found in the J Write program group. Simply run this
program and J-Write will be removed and notepad configured as your default text
viewer. Under Windows 95, you can also uninstall the 32-bit version of J-Write
from the Install/Remove programs Control Panel Applet.


4. PRICING INFORMATION
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J-Write Text Editor Single User Licence        12 pounds sterling (US$20)

US dollar prices are for indicative pricing only and assume an exchange rate of
one pound = $1.66.  All prices are VAT exclusive. UK VAT (currently 17.5%) will be
charged for all UK residents and EC residents that are not VAT registered or do
provide a VAT number as proof of registration.


6. HOW TO REGISTER
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Registration may be made by FAX, Letter Post or EMail. For FAX and Letter Post
registrations, a Registration Form is provided in the File "regform.txt" for you
to EMail or  print out (FAX or letter post), complete, and send to MWA Software.
You can also register using the Compuserve Shareware Registration Service (GO
SWREG). The software is registered under the name "J-Write for Windows".

Visa, Mastercard, Eurocard and JCB are accepted as payment mechanisms.
International money orders in pounds sterling and cheques drawn on UK Bank
Accounts are also accepted. US Dollar denominated checks are also acceptable
provided that an additional 10% is added to the purchase price to allow for the
additional Bank Charge. Please make cheques payable to McCallum Whyman Associates
Ltd. We can similarly accept cheques drawn on most Western European banks provided
that they are made out in local currency (for some reason the banks charge less
this way).

EMail registrations should be sent to:
  Internet:    [e-mail], or
  Compuserve:    100041,315

FAX:
  UK: 01962 735581
  Int: [phone]

MWA Software,
P.O.Box 37,
Alresford,
Hants,
SO24 9ZF,
ENGLAND


All registrations are accepted on the basis that the registered user will be
deemed to have accepted and be bound by the licence conditions for the J-Write
Text Editor as recorded in the file licence.txt.

7. Secure Registration by EMail
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There are two routes by which you can EMail your credit card details to MWA
Software without incurring the risk of sending a credit card number in clear
across the Internet. One route is to use the encryption mechanism provided by
pkzip. The other is to use PGP.

pkzip encryption will generally be good enough to avoid detection by the so called
"sniffer" programs that are understood to monitor EMail communications, looking
for numbers that look like credit cards. However, it is not believe to be good
enough to resist a determined attack by someone who has access to the necessary
skills in cryptography and a powerful enough computer. On the other hand PGP is
understood to offer a very strong level of protection. MWA Software makes no
recommendations as to which is the better approach. It is for you to decide based
on your own location and concerns.

Secure Transmission using pkzip.
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pkzip can encrypt files in a .zip archive using a simple password. To register for
the J-Write Text Editor by EMail when using pkzip as your encryption engine:

1. Using the file "regform.txt" as a template, complete a registration form for
the J-Write Text Editor. Remember to include your credit card details, billing
address and your name as it appears on your credit card.

2. Choose a password. Opening a dictionary at some random page is often a good way
to do this. For example, let's assume that you choose NERVOUS as your password.

3. Compress and encrypt the modified regform.txt using pkzip and the -s option to
encrypt. For example, with NERVOUS as your password, use the command line:

pkzip -sNERVOUS regform regform.txt

This will create regform.zip containing your compressed and encryted registration
details.

4. EMail regform.zip to MWA Software. Your own EMail utility will usually have a
way to send binary attachments to an EMail message. If you do not have such a
capability then you can use the J-Write Text Editor (also available from MWA
Software) to uuencode a binary file into a text form suitable for attaching to an
EMAil message. This feature is available from the File|Merge menu item.

The MWA Software EMail address is [e-mail].
Set the subject to "J-Write Text Editor Registration"

5. Send the password you choose at step 2 in a separate EMail to MWA Software. For
best protection, use our Compuserve EMail address:

[e-mail]

Set the subject to "re: J-Write Text Editor Registration"

Secure Transmission using PGP
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PGP is a powerful data encryption tool that has been made publicly available by
its author "Phillip Zimmermann". It is sufficiently good to attract the attentions
of various government's agency's and you should be aware that in certain countries
the use of such encryption software is a criminal offence. MWA Software only uses
PGP to decrypt registrations and does not send encrypted EMail. Having said that,
the international version of PGP can be obtained from:

http://www.ifi.uio.no/pgp/

The following URL is also a good source of information about PGP, including
information on how to get the more limited US version.

http://www.arc.unm.edu/~drosoff/pgp/pgp.html

To encrypt a registration using PGP, do the following:

1. Using the file "regform.txt" as a template, complete a registration form for
the J-Write Text Editor. Remember to include your credit card details, billing
address and your name as it appears on your credit card.

2. Encrypt regform.txt using PGP and the MWA public key. This is provided in the
file "mwakey.asc", which should be in the same archive as this file. This will
typically be performed by the following commands (the ; indicates the start of a
comment):

pgp -ka mwakey.asc                    ;add MWA key to your public keyring
pgp -ea regform.txt "MWA Software"    ;encrypt and encode for EMail
pgp -kr "MWA Software"                ;remove the MWA key from your keyring

The above will have created the encrypted file "regform.pgp". This is a text file
and may be sent as part of a normal EMail to MWA Software:

[e-mail]

Set the subject to "J-Write Text Editor Registration"

If you have any reason to doubt the validity of the MWA key, request an up-to-date
version by EMail to the above address, with a subject of "Key Verification
Request".

Thank you for registering for the J-Write Text Editor.