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InfView v1.46 (03/28/94)
========================

InfView is a general purpose Windows File Viewer allowing you to view
multiple files of ANY size in either ASCII, HEX, RAW ASCII, TEXT ONLY,
BITMAP, PCX or GIF image modes.  Unlike most other viewers, InfView reads
the entire file into memory (a snapshot!) so that if the file changes on disk,
it will not affect what you are viewing.

This version corrects reported problems viewing READONLY files and files
being shared on the network.

You can view now the contents of any Zip or Lzh compressed file and using your
own Unzip or Un-Arc utility InfView will decompress selected file directly
into the viewer!

Along side your ascii and hex views you can examine images!  Any 16 or 256
color Bitmap (BMP), PCX or GIF (compuserve compressed) image can be loaded and
viewed.

Any program (such as File Manager) can now drag files into InfView for display.
Most viewers allow you to drag a single file, InfView allows you to drag
MULTIPLE files which will can all be viewed, searched and compared!

InfView has MDI multiple file view capability allowing you to view up to
25 files at once.  Included with this are the following incredible features:
       - Hot Keys that let you scroll all viewing windows concurrently.
       - Character search to search all viewing windows for text.
       - Options to set the maximum number of viewing windows from 1-25.
       - Automatic horizontal or vertical tiling of multiple windows.
       - Automatic recycling of old windows (when you reach the maximum
         open windows, the next file you open will replace the oldest file
         you are viewing).
       - FILE COMPARE!! This feature allows you to Compare ALL FILES YOU
         ARE VIEWING.  You select your Original file and then the compare
         will find any differences in any other viewing windows. Also has
         a 'Continue Compare' feature to continue comparing from the point
         the last difference was found.

The Disk/Network file and word search option has been expanded to allow you
to specify the Minimum or Maximum file size that a file has to be to be
selected as well as the minimum creation/modification date a file has to have!
For example: This would allow you to search your disk (or an entire Network)
for files that were Created/Modified today that are more than 450k in size...
The search capabilities now extend to Zip and Lzh files too!

Other Features include: Search capabilities:
                          - Single view or multiple view search
                          - Repeat last search
                        Formatted printing (ie: source code)
                          - Print in WSYWYG or Default
                          - Entire text or selected text
                        File Execution (directly or by association)
                        File identification
                        Clipboard functions
                        Line Translation to Hex
                        Simple HEX EDITING of files while in Hex mode
                        Disk/Network Search capabilities:
                          - Search for Files (using name/extension & wildcards)
                          - Search for Words within files (like GREP!)
                          - Scan a Directory for all files
                          - Load Previous or Next file from the search list
                          - Select files based on file size or file date!
                        Font and Color selection
                        Variable line length up to 1k!
                        Character translation and expansion (tabs,etc..)
                        Display of available memory.

Installation
============

To Install:   From Program Manager Run A:SETUP
              You will be asked to Confirm your SOURCE directory.
              You will be asked to Confirm or change the Infview Destination
              Decide on the optional Hex Editor feature.

      InfView require 200k (that's it!) on your hard drive
      and there are no memory or configuration requirements.

Note: If you install without using Setup you will be unable to use some
      features of InfView.

File List
=========

These files are included in this release:

   INVIEW.EXE     INFVIEW.HLP     INFVUIMG.DLL
   INFVUGIF.DLL   INFVUZIP.DLL

Registration
============

            Send $6.99 to

                  Dean Software Design
                  P.O. Box 2331
                  Everett, WA 98203-0331

Canadian/Mexican orders please add $0.50 for postage.
Orders from all other countries please add $1.50 for postage.

Please use the Registration form found under the "Registration Information"
menu option of InfView.

or; You can register on CompuServe's Shareware Registration Forum
    (Go SWREG)  Registration ID for InfView is 1414.

See registration agreement below for multiple copy and site license
registration.

Version History
===============

Ver 1.46
  1. Correction for Banyan selected print.
  2. Infview will now set itself to FileMode 0 to allow it to view
     READONLY files.
  3. Attempts to 'Save to' or 'Update' READONLY files will now generate an
     InfView error rather than a program crash.
  4. Update INFVUZIP.DLL to allow general compression evaluator to handle
     READONLY files and to exit properly when the ZIP file is corrupted.

Ver 1.45
  1. InfView now uses IntelliLib (tm) to manually load\unload it's DLLs so
     that if the graphics DLLs are missing, the program can still run for
     normal viewing functions.
  2. New DLL to handle viewing the contents of ZIP and LZH libraries.
     Also will use Pkzip or LHA to uncompress a selected file from the Zip
     or Lzh into the viewer.
  3. Corrected bug in Next & Prev search list that were receiving the file
     date instead of the file name.
  4. On Startup the Open File Dialog will now show the name of the last file
     edited - using CANCEL will load it.
  5. If you open a Zip or Lzh file you will immediately get a listing of all
     the files compressed within, you can then load either the compressed
     file or select a file to decompress and load.
  6. The Disk\Network File Search now has an option to allow it to search
     for your search criteria within Zip and Lzh compressed data sets.
     If the file is found you optionally can decompress the specific file
     from the Zip/Lzh.

Ver 1.44
  1. Removed Debug line from Direct Print (sorry...)
  2. Added GIF Viewing (INFVUGIF.DLL). The 'Display Image' menu option under
     'View' menu will invoke this DLL if the image file is a GIF type.

Ver 1.43
  1. Added BitMap and PCX Viewing (INFVUIMG.DLL).  New Menu option 'Display
     Image' under 'View' menu allows you to view any 16/256 color Bitmap
     or PCX file.

Ver 1.42:
  1. Hex Editor bug corrected, now it won't give an error everytime you say OK
  2. Hex Editor will now not update the file when 'Cancel' is pressed.
  3. Three menu options: 'Save File', 'Save Viewer Contents to File' and
     'Close Window' were added to the MDI message dispatcher because of
     complaints that they did not always work under each local window.
  4. Character Search expanded to have Hex Search screen allowing seperate
     Hex and Ascii search strings (or both).
  5. Bug fixed in Character search that caused all searched lines to appear
     in the viewer in upper case.
  6. Viewer character search expanded in Ascii and Hex to search between
     lines (ie: part of the word on 1 line, part on the next).
  7. Disk/Network character search expanded to search between blocks
     (ie: part of the word on 1 line, part on the next).
  8. 'Print' Menu option was moved to be a submenu option under 'File'.
  9. Corrected error while printing selected text under both 'Direct' and
     'Print Manager'.

Ver 1.41:
  1. Added Drag 'n Drop feature. Lets another application drag MULTIPLE
     files onto Infview for display.
  2. Corrected Command Line to accept up to 9 file names, ie:
        "INFVIEW \AUTOEXEC.BAT \CONFIG.SYS \WINDOWS\WIN.INI"
  3. Fixed another repaint problem: when you reselected the last line of
     several selected lines (single mouse click) the screen would not repaint.
  4. Added code to release several memory objects (Fonts,Pens) that were
     chewing up the heap.
  5. Command Line can invoke a compare via the "\c" option, ie:
                     "INFVIEW WIN.INI WIN.BAK \c"
     Note: the "\c" can be anywhere within the command line options.

Ver 1.40:
  1. Changed to MDI application, you can now have multiple files viewed at
     the same time (default 25). The following new menu functions have been
     added to support multiple document viewing:
     - Scroll All Down 1 Line.
     - Scroll All Up 1 Line.
     - Search All.
     - Repeat Search All.
     - Compare Files.
     - Continue Compare.
     In addition, options under Preferences have been added to support:
     - Maximum File Views.
     - Recycle Old Windows.
     - Automatic Tiling.
  2. Corrected bug that did not release Heap when you opened a new viewing
     window, caused slow reads.
  3. Character search corrected to work on lines with more than 256 char.
  4. The Home and End keys now set the viewer to Column position 1.
  5. Executing an open file does not close the Viewing Windows.
  6. Changing colors will not cause the open file(s) to be re-read.
  7. Font selection has been updated to store ALL the font attributes in a
     single parameter line Font= in the INFORMER.INI file. This
     solves the problem of Infview loading with the incorrect font.
  8. The Prompt for Drives option was taken out of the Options menu and
     placed into the Preferences Dialog.
  9. The File/Word/Directory Disk Search routine now has selection options
     to allow you to specify Maximum file size or Minimum file size or
     Minimum Creation/Modification Date.
 10. Addition of the Extract Text Only mode. Requested by users wanting to
     get only the text out of WRITE/WORD/WP,etc.. files. This mode extracts
     the text (Hex 32-127) characters out of file, ignoring everything else.
 11. Added Contiguous Memory Available display to the About screen. Helps
     determine maximum file size you can view without Swapping slowdowns.

Ver 1.37:
  1. Ascii View of Binary files corrected to handle #0 (null) characters.
  2. New View option -> Raw Ascii. Shows files exactly the way they look.
  3. Hex Conversion in Ascii/Raw Ascii modes now builds a list box with
     formatted Hex lines showing 16 Hex bytes per line with Ascii translation
     of each line.
  4. Added Preferences Menu option under 'Options' menu.
  5. Added ability to specify line length under 'Preferences'. Line length
     can be between 20 - 1024 bytes. Screen refreshes when this value changes.
  6. Added option under 'Preferences' to select either printing through the
     Print manager or Directly to a port.
  7. Files that have a last line with no CR/LF will now display.
  8. Added Color selection for 'Text','Background','Selected Text','Selected
     Background' under Preferences.  Currently colors are listed in drop down
     box, plan to change it to color buttons or a color wheel.  Default is to
     'System' colors.
  9. When you Minimize Infview to an Icon and then Exit InfView, the next
     time InfView is invoked it will be restored to the last size and position
     prior to minimizing.
 10. Corrected Hex View so that 1st Hex pair is not flush against the Offset
     position in certain fonts.
 11. Correction to The Hex Editor so it will not give a Run time error 201 if
     you attempted to put Hex values outside 0-F.
 12. Added 'Expand Tabs' and 'Tab Length' fields to the Preferences dialog
     under Options. When selected, InfView will expand Tabs (Hex 9) to the
     number of spaces that you specified.

Ver. 1.36:
  1. Remove duplicate lines on buffer boundary.
  2. Network search updated to list network drives in order.

Ver. 1.35:
  1. Text can now be selected in Forward and Reverse direction.
  2. Direct Printing option added. This bypasses the Windows Print Manager
     and spews data out the Open Port (Lpt1,2...). Form Feed is done between
     multiple copies.
  3. If you get a File load error you will no longer get a Run Time Error.
  4. Options are loaded from INFORMER.INI in current directory if it exists,
     otherwise it looks for INFORMER.INI in the Windows default directory.
  5. When InfView is started and the OPEN FILE DIALOG is displayed, pressing
     CANCEL will automatically load the last file that was viewed rather than
     leaving a blank viewer.
  6. InfView will now display single line files in Ascii mode. (no Cr/Lf).
  7. The Status line now displays non-highlighted in the System Font,
     regardless of the Viewer Font.
  8. When you change viewing modes (Ascii/Hex) the viewer positions itself at
     the offset of the selected line in the previous mode.
  9. Hex viewing mode now shows the byte offset in the status line.
 10. The Status Line can now be hidden/displayed by using a menu option
     under 'Options'.
 11. The Print Request now allows you to choose between using the WYSWYG Font
     used in the viewer or the Default Printer Font.
 12. The Font Weight/Italic/Underline settings are saved in the INFORMER.INI
     and are set when InfView is loaded.
 13. The scroll bar is refreshed when moving between applications on your
     screen.

Ver. 1.31:
  1. Correct bug with screen refresh, would not restore screen after
     switching applications.
  2. Correct bug with Hex Print columnization.
  3. Correct bug with Hex File Save columnization.

Ver. 1.30:
  1. Correct menu offset problem on Last 3 files.
  2. New Drive Search function to find Files (like FILE FIND).
  3. New Drive Search function to find Words within files (like GREP).
  4. New Directory Listing function to list all files in the current directory.
  5. Added NEXT and PREVIOUS search list option to load files from the search
     list created from the above 3 functions.
  6. Added Hot Keys for all of the above as well as F1 for Help.
  7. Changed 'SHOW EDIT CHARS' to a single menu option with checkmark.
  8. New Hex Editor (DEBUG) function to change Hex View of files and save them.
  9. TrueType flicker reduction by only painting changed lines of the viewer.

Ver. 1.20:
  1. Added ability to do Cut&Paste type operation to Copy selected text
     to the Clipboard.
  2. Removed 'Identify' menu option and replaced it with a 'Show Information'
     sub-menu under 'Files'.  Identifies files and shows File size & date.
  3. Added 'Options' menu option and moved several 'View' options to it.
  4. Added function to change the Font! Under the 'Options' menu you can
     select the Font for the Viewer. Font name and size are saved in INI and
     are used in subsequent sessions.
  5. New 'Print Selected Text' dialog which will allow you to print text
     which you have selected.
  6. Corrected bug which failed display text on memory boundaries.
  7. Last Directory you were in is stored in the INFORMER.INI and is used
     during your next session for the 'File Open' dialog.
  8. New 'Goto Line' option under 'Search menu'.
  9. Search positions the line where text was found at the top of the
     viewer window.

Ver. 1.10:
  1. Correction to Hex routine to show final Hex characters of a file.
  2. Print Request screen allows specific line range to be printed.
  3. Many of the user options are saved in INFORMER.INI under INFVIEW
     heading and are loaded the next time InfView is invoked.
  4. List of file extensions and descriptions were moved from being hardcoded
     to a dynamic list within the INFORMER.INI under EXTENSIONS heading.
  5. The last 3 files viewed are saved and displayed under the FILES menu
     option and can be loaded directly from the menu.
  6. You can save a range of lines to a different file name in Ascii or Hex.
  7. The REPEAT search menu option can be invoked using the F3 key.
  8. Menu option was added to expose editing characters in the viewed file,
     this includes CR,LF,TAB, etc...
  9. Menu option was added to translate all non-visible characters to the
     ' ~ ' character for the viewed file.
 10. The size and position of the InfView window is remembered between
     viewing sessions so that it will be brought back in the same spot when
     it is next invoked.
 11. The File IDENTIFY menu identifies the type of file and also attempts to
     determine if the file has any Windows associations on record.
 12. InfView HELP was vastly expanded.
 13. The Status line shows the Line Number and Starting offset of the line
     that is currently highlighted.
 14. All Print Request options are stored in INFORMER.INI under the PRINT
     heading and are recalled each time Print is invoked. (also shared with
     other applications).
 15. In Ascii view mode, double clicking on a line in the viewer will display
     the Hex translation of that particular line.
 16. A Hex Translation Table was added to the Online Help for reference.

Ver 1.00
  1. First Release...

Disclaimer - Registration Agreement
===================================

Users of InfView must accept this disclaimer of warranty:

"InfView is supplied as is. The author disclaims all warranties,
expressed or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of
merchantability and of fitness for any purpose. The author assumes no
liability for damages, direct or consequential, which may result from
the use of InfView."

InfView is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge to
the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your friends, but
please do not give it away altered or as part of another system. The
essence of "user-supported" software is to provide personal computer
users with quality software without high prices, and yet to provide
incentive for programmers to continue to develop new products. If you
find this program useful and find that you are using InfView and
continue to use InfView after a reasonable trial period, you must
make register it!  The registration fee will license one copy for use
on any one computer at any one time.

Commercial users of InfView must register and pay for their copies
of InfView within 30 days of first use or their license is
withdrawn. Site-License arrangements may be made by contacting Dean
Software Design.  In general, multiple copies of InfView can be
registered at the following rates:

            1 - 10 copies:   $  6.99 per copy
           11 - 20 copies:   $ 65.00 + $6.50 per copy over 10
           21 - 50 copies:   $120.00 + $6.00 per copy over 20
           51 - 100 copies:  $275.00 + $5.50 per copy over 50
           101+ copies:      $500.00 (site license, unlimited)

Anyone distributing InfView for any kind of remuneration must
first contact Dean Software Design at the indicated address for
authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted to
distributors recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its guidelines for
shareware distributors, and such distributors may begin offering InfView
immediately (However Dean Software Design must still be advised so that
the distributor can be kept up-to-date with the latest version of InfView).

You are encouraged to pass a copy of InfView along to your friends
for evaluation. Please encourage them to register their copy if they
find that they can use it.

All registers user receive free technical support for 90 days from
the date of registration. Also all registered users receive a free
upgrade to the next version of this program when that version becomes
available. To report bugs, receive help and bug fixes please send a
CompuServe message via CompuServe Mail to:

                       Dean Software Design
                       [75240,65]

or, if you do not have access to CompuServe, write to us!

Definition Of Shareware
=======================

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Shareware is a distribution method, not a type of software. You should
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