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- Short: Viewer for text/guides/html/datatypes
- Author: Jürgen Klawitter
- Uploader: Andreas Neumann <an@andreasneumann.de>
- Type: text/show
- Replaces: text/show/Next2.4*
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- NEXT is a fast and compact text viewer, written in assembly.
- It displays all kinds of files including binaries, crunched and
- archived files. OS 2+ required.
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- Main Features:
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- - offline browser for HTML files
- - converts AmigaGuide files, supports links
- - converts MSDos text files, MSWord and MSWrite documents
- - decrunches powerpacker data files (internal routine) and XPK files
- - decrunches SZDD files (often found in MSDos environment)
- - unpacks and displays archived files (LhA,LZX,ZIP,GZIP,COMPRESS,TAR)
- - internal detar routine
- - unpacks whole archives or selected files to a destination directory
- - displays pictures (OS 3+ and datatypes needed in this case)
- - remembers previously loaded files
- - easy loading of your favorite files
- - font sensitive, font selection by font requester
- - saves/prints whole file or a definable block
- - printings with title line and page numbers (position and style
- of title line are selectable)
- - fast and effective search: all matches are displayed at once on screen
- - pattern search
- - search by mouse click
- - special search routine for strings within binaries
- - counts words, strings or chars within file or block
- - various modes to load a file
- - scans directories using wildcards
- - AMINET support
- - bookmarks
- - appwindow
- - clipboard copy
- - size of displayed files unlimited
- - reentrant code (can be made resident)
- ... and more
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- Changes V2.5
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- meaning: + new, ^ improved, * changed, - removed
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- + Next has now browser capabilities. References are shown in color 3.
- Clicking on a reference string causes a jump to the target.
- + Links within AmigaGuide files are now functional.
- + Function "Browse links" looks for references/links in HTML and guide
- files
- + Conversion of Windows HLP-files
- ^ References within frames are displayed
- ^ Display of small pictures (once more) improved
- ^ Backslash in guides is now treated as escape character: \\=\, \@=@
- * New pointer for AsGuide mode
- * Links of AmigaGuide files are now displayed with color 3,
- color 2 in earlier versions.
- * Effect of mousebuttons has changed:
- LMB now reserved for clicking on references/links. Jumping to marks 1/2
- is now done by pressing "1" and "2" (main keyboard).
- - Very small pictures (width or height=1 pixel) are not displayed any more.
- Caused crashes. Message: "Picture too small"
- - BUG: First line of HTML-files was sometimes incomplete. Fixed.
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