MacMore is a companion program to MultiSession for viewing and converting text files.
• Large Documents
MacMore was designed to open large text files. I have been able to open files of several hundred kbytes using the 384k partition. Once I opened the "ls-lR" file from export.lcs.mit.edu, which is 1.3 megabytes. If you plan on opening very large files, you should increase the memory partition. If you don't, the program will still work, but very slowly.
The program works by building a list of where the lines are in the file instead of reading the entire file into memory. As a rule, 8 bytes are required for each line in the file, with a little overhead. For files with long lines, such as "ls-lR" files, this considerably reduces the amount of data to be kept in memory. The payoff could be lost with files that have very short lines or many blank lines.
• Converting Text File Formats
MacMore can display text files in the three most prevalent formats: Macintosh, UNIX, and MS-DOS. The difference between these formats is the character used to mark the end of a line. Some programs can only recognize text files in one of these formats. Therefore, MacMore can convert between the file formats. Choose the format you want to convert the file to from the Convert menu.
• Stripping Tabs
Some editors, like the THINK C editor, allow you to set the tab size to anything you want. Other editors, such as most UNIX editors, assume that tabs will always represent 8 spaces. In order to deal with this, you can adjust the number of spaces a tab represents and then eliminate tabs completely from your document. To change the tab size, choose "Set Tab Size" from the File menu. To eliminate tabs from your document (making it somewhat larger), choose "Change Tabs To Spaces" from the Convert menu.
Some editors store their tab and font information in special resources ('ETAB' and 'EFNT'). MacMore looks for these and uses them if they exist, otherwise it defaults to 9-point Monaco with 8 spaces per tab.
• Searching
To find some text, choose "Find" from the Edit menu. Enter your search text and click on one of the search buttons. To find the next occurrence of the search text after the current selection, choose "Find Again" from the Edit menu. If there are no occurrences after the current selection, the program will beep and reset the search to begin at the top of the document. The search is case insensitive.
• Printing
MacMore supports elementary printing capabilities. Use the "Page Setup" and "Print" menus from the File menu. To see where page breaks will occur with the current printer setting, choose "Show Page Breaks". There will be no page numbers on the printed pages and lines too long to fit on the page will be cut off.
You can also print the currently selected text using the "Print Selection" option from the File menu. If only part of the first or last line is selected, the program will still print the entire line.
