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- Version 2.00
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- Copyright ⌐ 1991 by
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- Federico Giannici
- Viale Francia 4
- 90146 Palermo
- Italy
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- All rights reserved.
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- My MC-Link (+39 6 4180440) code is MC4080.
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- View80 II is a fast and powerful ASCII Text-Reader.
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- This program is ShareWare.
- It can be freely copied, provided that no change is made to the program or to
- the documentation and that the archive is left intact. The program can't be
- included in any commercial program without my written permission.
- If you use View80 II, you have the moral duty to send me a contribution. The
- suggested amount is $15 or Lire 20.000. In this way I can continue to improve
- this already great program.
- It's up to you!
-
-
- View80 II works fine also with the Kickstart 2.0. Better still, it takes
- advantage of some features of this new version of the operating system.
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- LOADING
- ~~~~~~~~~
- You can load the program both from Workbench or CLI.
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- From Workbench
- --------------
- You can doubleclick the View80 icon or insert the View80 name and path in the
- "Default Tool" of the icon of the textfile that you wish to read with View80.
- You can also use multiple selection (with the SHIFT key) to choose one or more
- files to load automatically.
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-
- From CLI
- --------
- You can get the usual help specifying a "?" as first argument (the rest of the
- arguments are ignored). Typing "?" again, you will be given more help (a la
- ARP).
- Anyway the syntax is:
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- View80 [filenames or wildcards] [NODETACH] [ICONIFY].
-
- Normally View80 detaches itself from the starting CLI. To avoid this you can
- specify the NODETACH keyword.
- With the ICONIFY keyword you can freeze immediately View80 in the iconify
- status. It's useful to run View80 and set it in "stand by" with your startup-
- sequence.
- To specify a file named 'nodetach' or 'iconify' you can enclose its name between
- quotes (").
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-
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- THE LIBRARIES
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- View80 II makes use of three libraries not present in the standard Workbench
- disk. It works also without any library, but to get the best of it you have to
- copy the following libraries (included in this archive) in your "LIBS:"
- directory.
- - req.library: for the file-requester and the color-requester.
- - arp.library: for the pattern-matching in file loading.
- - powerpacker.library: to decrunch PowerPacker's crunched data files.
-
- To load View80 II from any disk without having to Assign the "LIBS:" directory,
- you may find useful an utility written by Nicola Salmoria, whose name is
- "LibReq". It allows to load libraries, devices and fonts from any mounted
- volume, and displayes a requester if such files cannot be opened. The current
- (15 Feb 91) version of LibReq is 1.5.
-
-
-
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- THE CONFIGURATION FILE
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- When you load View80 II, it searches its configuration file: "View80.config".
- First, it searches in the "S:" directory, then, if it's failed, it tries in the
- same directory from where it was loaded (i.e. if you typed "dir/View80" it will
- search in the "dir" directory).
- This is to allow you to load View80, with your favorite configuration, from any
- disk, without having to Assign the "S:" directory.
- NOTE: View80 isn't currently able to find its directory if it is executed thru
- the DOS "path" command. So, leave the configuration file in S: or use the
- complete path to load View80.
- The configuration includes the following information:
- - The screen colors.
- - The status of all the "Preferences" menu items.
- - The status of all the "Settings" of every buffer.
- - The last search string and the status of all the search parameters.
- - The current directory of the file-requester and the contents of the "Hide" and
- "Show" gadgets.
- - The status of the range-mode gadget.
- - The position of the iconify-window.
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- REPLYING TO THE REQUESTERS
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- You can reply to any requester both with the mouse or the keyboard.
- Pressing the ESC key you select the "CANCEL" gadget (if it's present) with any
- other key you select the "OK" gadget (if it's present).
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- SCREEN DESCRIPTION
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- One peculiarity of View80 is the horizontal scrollbar. It allows you to
- visualize 80 columns of text and use the scrollbar at the same time.
- At the left of the scrollbar there is the indicator of the current line number
- (the 'current' line is the first on the screen). It works also as the jump-to
- gadget (if the buffer isn't empty).
- In the top of the screen there are (from left to right) the close gadget, the
- range-mode gadget, the index-of-buffers gadget, the ten buffer gadgets, and
- information about name, size and number of lines of the current file.
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- SELECTING A BUFFER
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
- View80 II can load up to 10 files in 10 different buffers.
- There are many ways to change the currently shown buffer, both with the keyboard
- and the mouse.
- With the keyboard, press the corresponding numeric key. Alternatively you can
- also press the numeric keys on the keypad while holding down the SHIFT or ALT
- keys.
- With the mouse, simply click on the buffer gadget.
- NOTE: Double-clicking a buffer gadget will load a new file in that buffer.
- You can also go up and down through the buffers with the F5-F6 keys or with the
- "-" and "+" keys in the keypad.
- Finally you can use the "Index Of Buffers" command or gadget (see later).
-
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-
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- SCROLLING
- ~~~~~~~~~~~
- View80 II can scroll through the text at five (actually they are six) different
- speeds. The first three speeds are very smooth, both forwards and backwards. Try
- to find another program that gives you such a good scroll!
- You can scroll both with keyboard and mouse.
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- Keyboard scrolling
- ------------------
- You can scroll up and down with the corresponding arrow keys.
- The spacebar activates the autoscroll: continue to scroll down without having to
- hold down the key.
- You can change the scroll speed at any time pressing one of the following keys:
- CTRL --> Smooth-Scroll (slower)
- SHIFT --> Fast-Scroll
- ALT --> Turbo-Scroll
- SHIFT & ALT --> Flash-Scroll (faster)
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- By using the LEFT or RIGHT arrow keys you can move through the text, page by
- page (the last line of the previous page will be shown in order not to loose the
- thread of what you was reading). If you press the SHIFT key the movement will be
- carried out in Fast-Scroll.
- By using the ALT key with the LEFT or RIGHT arrow keys you can jump to the top
- or to the bottom of the text.
-
- The numeric keypad normally works in a MS-DOS like manner.
-
- The HELP key shows you a brief reminder of the functions of all the keys. So I
- don't repeat that reminder here.
- Pressing the HELP key with the SHIFT or ALT key you call the "Information"
- requester.
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-
- Mouse scrolling
- ---------------
- With the mouse you can scroll using the scrollbar or clicking on the screen. The
- nearer to the top or bottom edge you click, the faster the text scrolls.
-
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- RANGE MODE
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~
- You can select a range for a subsequent "Save", "Print", "Copy to the Clipboard"
- or simply to mark a location.
-
- To select a range you have to set View80 in the range-mode, selecting the first
- item in the last menu or simply clicking on the "R" gadget in the top of the
- screen.
- While in range-mode, the mouse is used to select the range in the usual way. For
- long selections you can use the "Select All", "Change Start of Range" and
- "Change End of Range" menu-items in the rightmost menu.
- When View80 is in range-mode you can continue to scroll with the mouse simply
- clicking at the very left or right of the screen.
-
- You can also set the range with the F1 and F2 keys, respectively to select the
- start and end of the range
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- -------------
- THE MENUS
- -------------
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-
- In the rest of this document, I'll suppose you are not a stupid and I'll leave
- out some details that you can understand by your own. If I haven't anything
- interesting to say about some menu item I'll simply write "No comment".
-
-
- ---------
- Project
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- Load...
- ~~~~~~~
- View80 II uses the well-known req.library file-requester. If the req.library
- isn't available, View80 uses a very simple requester.
- You can select up to 10 files (holding down the SHIF