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HomePage-Penguin v1.452
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Written by Matthias Jaap
- English doc -
1. Status
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HP-Pinguin is FREEWARE. That means, that you can copy it to
anyone and use it as often as you want without paying for
it (but you can give something to a charity organisation).
Changes to the texts, resource files or the program itself
are FORBIDDEN!
Distribution by PD libraries and BBSs is allowed. Penguin
may not be included on cover disks or CD collections without
my written permission.
2. Improvements
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Version 1.3 - 1.451: HP-Penguin runs also as an Accessory and
even under MultiTOS. This has been achieved by using the
GFA-Flydial-Library 4.9 by Gregor Duchalski.
Version 1.45 - 1.451: Complete translation of the comments!
The headings can now be set seperately
few bugs fixed in the German RSC-file
1.452: Bug fixes! English RSC should now work.
Image name converted to lower case letters.
Image size automatically recognized (GIF only)
3. System requirements:
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Computer : Atari ST/TT/Falcon, TOS 1.4 - 4.4, MultiTOS, MagiC
Resolution: 640 * 200 or higher
Memory : HP-Penguin will take about 100KB of memory.
Application type: ACC or PRG. Pure GEM.
With the HP-Penguin you can create your own HTML-page without
knowing any HTML-commands. You create it by answering a few
questions. You can choose a background, make a two-column-text,
insert a picture and many more.
Please note that HP-Penguin has NOT an integrated editor.
You have to use an editor to write the text for your web page
(it must not contain html commands). The reason why HP-Penguin
has not an own editor is, that it would increase the program
length dramatically. And there are already some great editors
around. By the way, the Penguin will recognize the paragraphs
correctly (okay, it's just a very stupid little routine that
sets a paragraph if the length of the line is lower than a
user definged length).
The program explains itself so it would be the best if you
start it right now!
This program has been written with GFA-Basic 3.5E on an
Atari Falcon. It is inspirated by a similar program for
Windows (Home Page Wizard).
4. The language
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As said before, HP-Penguin is bi-lingual German/English.
There is also a French RSC file but it is an absolutely
awful translation done by me. If anybody wants to do a
translation to another language please contact me.
4.1 Falcon owners
You are lucky when you have a Falcon because HP-Penguin
will look at the _AKP-cookie and will load the correct
RSC-file. If the desktop language is set to other values
than German or English, HP-Penguin will automatically
choose the English resource file.
4.2 ST/TT owners
If you are owner of an Atari ST/TT you have to choose
the language differently. There are two methods:
I) Rename one of the two resource files will cause
HP-Penguin to load the other.
Example: Rename HPPING.RSC to HPPING.RSX
HP-Penguin will load HPPING_E.RSC.
This will also work on a Falcon.
II) Start the program without renaming one of the RSC-
files.
A box will appear with the question which language
you want to have.
4.3 Emulator users and ST compatibles
As I have no experience with Atari emulators or the new
clone machines, I can not say if you need to rename
the files or not.
5. Known bugs/limitations
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1. Please close the HP-Penguin window if you are using the
Penguin as an ACC under Single-TOS and are starting a
program!
2. There are problems with the Redraw of the Atari fileselector.
Use an alternative fileselector to fix that problem.
6. Future enhancements
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* You can see one in the start dialogue: Load HTML file.
* Perhaps I will use FaceValue for the next versions of HP-Penguin.
This would allow new features.
* support for the Clipboard
7. I would like to thank...
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Sven Betz and Joachim Lühr of Betz Computer for their betatesting
and GFA-tips.
Gregor Duchalski for his fantastic GFA-Library.
8. Contact:
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If you have any new ideas or you want to translate HP-Penguin to
another language, please e-mail me:
E-Mail: sa6z220@public.uni-hamburg.de
9. Other Internet utilities
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If you want to publish your web site on the net, you should look
also at another Internet tool which has different options like
special char conversion (important for French and German Atari
users), delete tags (will remove all HTML commands so that you
get a normal text) and some other things...
The name of the program is HTML-Help and is, for example,
available on ftp.funet.fi . You can also find new versions
of HP-Penguin and future projects there.