Spot 1.2d


TITLE

     Spot

RELEASE

     1.2d

AUTHOR

     Nico Francois
     nico@augfl.be

SHORT

     Spot 1.2d - FidoNet point tosser/editor

DESCRIPTION

     Spot is a FidoNet tosser/editor for points.  It features a
     userfriendly font-sensitive GadTools interface that is fully
     localized.  Spot uses a custom message base format for fast
     importing and exporting.

     Some of Spot's main features:

     o Supports new 3.0 features (newlook menus, memory pools,...)

     o Automatically creates new areas for you, no tedious work

     o Optional - fully transparent - message base crunching

     o Message list with powerful functions (e.g. search body text)

     o Excellent support for multiple character sets (LATIN-1, IBM,...)

     o Built-in, fully asynchronous, Fido file request

     o Multi-bossing and multi-domain capable

     o Userlist editor

     o ARexx port (100+ commands)

NEW FEATURES

     o Import routine fixed and improved.

     o Quote recognition improved (no more white smilies :^)

     o Optionally highlighted separator bars.

     o Yet again improved fakenet support.

     o New ARexx commands: `gettimewritten' and `gettimearrived'.

     o Includes updated catalogs.

     o All known bugs and quirks have been fixed.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

     AmigaOS Release 2.04 (V37+) or higher.

HOST NAME

     wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) [AmiNet]

DIRECTORY

     /pub/aminet/comm/fido

FILENAME

     Spot12d.lha
     Spot12d_Patch.lha (updates Spot 1.2c executable only)

PRICE

     Shareware fee, US$30

DISTRIBUTABILITY

     Shareware, Copyright (c) 1991-1994 Nico Frangois

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                     #>    Email: nico@augfl.be
   Nico Francois     4     Fido : 2:292/603.10




                           Textra 1.15 released


TITLE

     Textra, GUI-based Amiga Text Editor w/ ARexx

VERSION

     1.15

COMPANY

     None

AUTHOR

     Mike Haas
     3867 La Colina Rd.
     El Sobrante, CA.  94803

     mikeh@starnine.com

     Also author of JForth Professional and LCD Calculator.

DESCRIPTION

     Textra is the User-Friendly text editor for the Amiga.
     It contains a fully-Intuitionized GUI as well as an
     ARexx interface with 70+ commands.  The package
     interfaces with the asl file and font requesters,
     supports multiple windows with cut, copy and paste
     to the clipboard.  Also supported are Undo and Drag-select
     with left mouse button, background printing and ARexx
     script execution, user-settable preferences which can
     be saved.  The editor displays fast text and
     continuous-movement vertical and horizontal scroll bars.

     The package contains full, detailed documentation,
     40+ Arexx scripts (including an interactive tutorial)
     and a hard disk installer program.

     Scripts are provided to integrate Textra with
     JForth Professional 3.x, SAS/C, HSPascal and Paul Kienitz's
     Q-Blue Offline Mail Reader program.

NEW FEATURES

   o  Textra now includes a full-featured interface to the popular
      SAS/C development environment, developed and generously
      contributed by one of SAS Institute's own!
   o  The new MARKS facility allows you to assign any selected
      text to a logical name of up to 31 chars long.  Any number
      of assignments can be made.
   o  Users may now opt to use the ASL File requester in place of
      the native Textra file requester.  Default is the Asl requester.
   o  Under 2.0 or later, the CUT, COPY and PASTE functions now
      operate with the standard clipboard device (unit 0).
   o  This is the first version to be low-memory-failure-proof!
      ANY MEMORY REQUEST FAILURE WILL FLASH THE SCREEN 3 TIMES in
      1 second, then wait until the memory comes available.
   o  Textra now supports just about any mail reader known to
      Amiga-Man!  Textra 1.15 sports both a command-line option
      as well as an ARexx command which tell Textra to
      "hold" the calling program until the specified window
      is closed.
   o  Program now takes note if a file is MSDOS format or Amiga
      format and will preserve the format when saved.
   o  Added the ability to write-protect a window so that it
      cannot be accidentally altered while open.
   o  Before you SAVE a file over an existing disk file, Textra
      now performs some checks that nothing else has messed with
      the file on disk while the editor has held a copy in ram.
   o  Under 2.0 and later, Textra will display the 2.x-style
      'busy pointer'.
   o  14 new ARexx commands, 12 new scripts
   o  Bugs fixed

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

     None, but additional functionality if run under 2.0 or later.

PRICE

     $25.00 Shareware fee.

DISTRIBUTABILITY

     Unregistered versions of TEXTRA are freely distributable.

FILE NAME/LOCATION

     Uploaded to aminet, specifically...
     wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) as:
     /pub/aminet/util/edit/Textra15.lha

     Also uploaded to Genie, Amiga libraries, section 4, Utilities

OTHER

     An earlier version (v1.11) is distributed with JForth
     Professional 3.x.  This release of Textra is completely
     backward-compatible with that version.