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PPMore 2.2 User Manual
Aug 23, 1992
Preface
=======
The programs and files in this distribution are freely distributable, but are
also copyright (c) Nico François. They may be freely distributed as long as
no more than a nominal fee is charged to cover time and copying costs.
No commercial usage is permitted without written permission from the
author. Everything in this distribution must be kept together, in original
unmodified form.
The above is generally known as freeware.
Coverdisks or diskmagazines need written permission of UGA to offer the
Powerpacker utilities or Powerpacker/Reqtools libraries on their disk. For
commercial use please read the copyright file on your original PP disk.
If you have suggestions or remarks about this program, or if you find
any bugs, please let me know.
Write to the following address:
Nico François
Corbielaan 13
B-3060 Bertem
BELGIUM
PPMore 2.0 requires AmigaDOS Release 2 (Kickstart & Workbench 2.0) to run.
Contents
========
1. An introduction
2. Usage
3. Control
4. Using PPMore from other programs
1. An introduction
==================
This program was written to complement one of my other utilities,
PowerPacker (a command and data cruncher). It is used to read normal ascii
text files or text files crunched with PowerPacker. The program itself is
about 13K long and when you know you save about 60% when you crunch a text
file, you can see that this could save a lot of space on your disks.
PPMore was written as a more replacement (as you could have guessed :-),
so I tried to keep the keyboard commands the same as well as adding some new
ones. There are two main differences between PPMore and More, PPMore uses
gadgets and it always loads the complete file in memory (More only loads part
of the file and will load the rest when needed). If you can live with these
differences, you can replace More with PPMore anywhere you want.
PPMore uses 'powerpacker.library' and 'reqtools.library', so make sure
these are present in your Libs: directory. Double-click 'Install_libs' for
an automatic installation.
If you haven't got PowerPacker you are of course missing one of the main
features of this program. PowerPacker is available as shareware (up to
version 2.3b) or as a commercial program (version 4.0a). Order a copy from
UGA, P.O.Box 881, 3700 AW Zeist, The Netherlands. The commercial version
offers several enhancements like 40 to 50 times faster crunching, overlay
support, an ARexx port, and much more.
2. Usage
========
PPMore can be used in several different ways.
- First of all via the CLI:
If you enter 'PPMore ?' you will get a standard AmigaDOS template. Enter
'PPMore ??' for more information. You use PPMore like this:
PPMore [<file|dir>] [TABS n] [PUBSCREEN <name|@addr|@*>]
[MEMVIEW m,l,f[,n]]
If you provide a file the program will load and display it. Files
crunched using PowerPacker 2.0 or higher will be automatically decrunched by
PPMore. If the file was encrypted you will be prompted for the password.
Options:
TABS n Select tabsize, default is 8. Also see the Settings menu.
PUBSCREEN Specify the public screen (by name) where PPMore should open
its main window. Note that only real public screens will
be recognized, not any screen. If you do not specify this
option the default public screen will be used (normally
the Workbench).
The MEMVIEW option and other uses of the PUBSCREEN option are explained in
section 4.
PPMore can be made resident so it doesn't have to be loaded every time
you use it, use the C: Resident command for this. You can't make PPMore
resident when it is crunched!! The file is supplied as an uncrunched command
file with the pure bit set.
If you enter PPMore without options, you will be presented with a file
requester. Entering PPMore with a directory instead of a file as an argument
will also get you a file requester, but it will be positioned in the directory
you specified.
Examples:
o PPMore DOCS:PPMore.doc TABS 4
Load and display 'DOCS:PPMore.doc' and use a tabsize of 4 spaces.
o PPMore PUBSCREEN "Public Screen" TABS=6 AUTO:
Put up file requester (in directory AUTO:) and open window on
the public screen named 'Public Screen' (if found). Quotes are
used to pass a screentitle with spaces. Use tabsize of 6.
o PPMore ppmore.doc.pp PUBSCREEN Workbench
Load and display 'ppmore.doc.pp' on the Workbench screen, no
matter what the default public screen is.
- Via the WorkBench:
There are three different ways of using PPMore via the workbench: you
can set the default tool of the (crunched) text file to 'PPMore', you can
single click the PPMore icon and then double click the text file icon or you
can double-click the PPMore icon and pick a file using the file requester.
You set the default tool by single clicking the icon of the text file
and selecting 'Info' from the workbench menu. You will get a window with
several gadgets in it, click in the string gadget where it says 'Default
tool' and enter 'PPMore'. PPMore should be in the command path for this to
work, otherwise you must enter the full path so Workbench can find it. Last
of all select the 'Save' gadget.
Following tooltype is recognized by PPMore (in the text file's icon, not
PPMore's icon):
TABS=n : Set tabsize for file (default 8).
NOTE: - PPMore will add '.pp' to the filename when the file wasn't found.
This is very useful in the WorkBench enviroment: you can make an
icon for 'text.doc' but name the file 'text.doc.pp'. Now the
WorkBench will show an icon with 'text.doc' as name, but if you
doubleclick it 'text.doc.pp' will be displayed. (As long as there
is no 'text.doc' file in the directory!)
- After reading a file you can press 'L' to load a new file, instead of
quitting and restarting.
- In the AmigaDOS template ignore the /M modifier on FILE, PPMore does
not accept multiple file names (it was needed to let PPMore still
support the old command line format for compatibility).
3. Control
==========
PPMore can be controlled by keyboard or by intuition gadgets. To get a
summary of the keyboard commands press <HELP>, the function of the gadgets
shouldn't be hard to understand.
A few notes on printing:
o The printer.device has to be in the DEVS: directory for PPMore to be
able to print, you should also have correct preferences settings for
your printer. Make especially sure the number of lines is correct.
o You can continue to read the text when PPMore is printing (this IS a
multitasking computer! :-), you *CAN* quit when printing is still in
progress, printing will continue and all memory will be freed once it
is finished.
PPMore has a settings menu that allows you to change most of its settings.
You can save these settings, snapshot or unsnapshot PPMore's window.
The settings menu allows you to switch the following things on/off:
o Scroll Text: This determines if text is scrolled or paged upon doing
a page up or down. Note that the shifted keys/gadgets temporarily
reverse this switch. By this I mean that if Space does a paged page
down, pressing Shift Space will do a scrolled page down.
o Wrap Lines: Line wrap mode determines how lines that are too long will
be displayed. If it is on long lines will continue on the next line, if
it is off they will be cut off. If a line is cut off an inverse '>'
will appear on the right edge of the window.
o Line Numbers: If this is on PPMore will display line number in the
title of its window instead of a percentage.
You can also change the tab size and the window's font. Any fixed width
font will work. 'Snapshot Window' wil