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NED(tm) v1.6x Release Notes , _ /_ __. __ _ , , , __. __ _ _/_)_/ /_(_/|_/ (_</_(_(_/_(_/|_/ (_</_ This is a shareware product. If you intend to use NED on a regular basis, please register and show your support for the author. Commercial, business or governmental use by non- registered users is prohibited. When you register you receive a 250 page manual and the latest version of NED and utilities as well as info about new versions when they occur. To register, fill in REGISTER.FRM included with the distribution below and send and $50 to the address below. NED(tm) v1.6x (C) Copyright 1987-93 David L. Dight All Rights Reserved. P.O. Box 280, Kings Cross, N.S.W. 2011 AUSTRALIA. +61 2 331 4521, CIS:100033,2563 Revision 1.6.e.2 17/05/1993. ********************************************************* INDIVIDUAL USERS Individual and Company Users: Please refer to LICENSE.DOC and REGISTER.FRM for information. ********************************************************* VENDOR NOTES If you wish to distribute this software, please read DISTRIB.DOC and VENDOR.DOC for details. ********************************************************* DESCRIPTIONS BBS sysops and vendors should see DESCRIBE.DOC for sample descriptions. ********************************************************* BBS SYSOPS BBS SYSOPs should refer to the SYSOP.DOC file for complete information relating to them. ********************************************************* RELEASE NOTES To unpack, execute the program NEDIT.EXE in the directory you wish NED to reside. NHELP.EXE and NCAL.EXE must be on the PATH if you wish to use help, ASCII tables or the calculator. Read the section on configuring NED to learn how to use CONFIG.NED in the manual NED.DOC NED will search the PATH for CONFIG.NED so put this with NED.EXE Files in the release: NEDIT.EXE(*) Self-extracting archive. READ.ME This file. NED.EXE Main program. NHELP.EXE Help system. NCAL.EXE On-line Calculator/ASCII tables. FASTPRN.EXE Document printing utility (See note 8). VIRCHK.EXE Executable virus scanner (See note 1). SF.EXE SuperFind utility (See note 49) CONFIG.NED Example configuration file. FILES.NED Sample File List (See note 22). SAMPLE.MCR Sample Macro file (See note 41). NED.DOC User's guide (See note 8). VENDOR.DOC Distributors, vendors and ASP vendor information. DISTRIB.DOC Application for distribution licence. LICENSE.DOC Licensing agreement for individual use. SYSOP.DOC Info about posting NED on BBS's. DESCRIBE.DOC Sample descriptions for BBS/vendors. REGISTER.FRM Software registration form. OMBUDSMN.ASP ASP ombudsman statement. PACKING.LST This list in a separate file. (*) LHA's SFX 2.13S (c) Yoshi, 1991. All rights reserved. Outlined below is a summary of changes and new feature additions in this release, these are: New features in version 1.5x 11/02/92 Changes in version 1.6b 23/03/92 New features in version 1.6b Changes in version 1.6e 21/12/92 New features in version 1.6e Changes in version 1.6x 23/05/93 New features in version 1.6x ********************************************************* New features in version 1.5x 1. Checking the executables for viruses/unauthorised mods. Execute VIRCHK.EXE after you extract this release. This needs to be in the same directory as the executables to test. VIRCHK.EXE checks the files NED.EXE, NHELP.EXE, NCAL.EXE and FASTPRN.EXE for any possible attached viruses or unauthorised modifications. If any problems are found, the offending file is reported. Do NOT attempt to use any executable reported as bad. Contact David L. Dight or your distributor for advice. VIRCHK could be run periodically on systems that are known to be exposed. If the NED system has picked up any virii, delete the executables and re-extract (as long as the release files were checked when you first received them and were found to be ok). 2. COMMAND '2' This allows you to execute DOS commands from within NED. For example, <esc>2dir/w<enter> will execute the DOS dir/w command. When the command has been completed, press any key to return to editing. See item 10 below. With no parameters, this command invokes a DOS shell (same as ALT X). 3. COMMAND '3' This allows you to set the keyboard speed. 0 for no change, 1 is fastest, slowing down to 5 (a crawl). <esc>31<enter> will set the keyboard speed to the fastest setting. Keyboard rate can be set on startup in config.ned, KEYSPEED=1 4. The DATE FORMAT has been changed with ALT Y to: dayname, dd/mm/yyyy, hh:mm {am|pm} Changes to the date string format via the DATEFMT command in CONFIG.NED will be reflected in the above string. 5. The software REGISTRATION ADDRESS can be found on page 9 of the help screen. 6. FIRST LETTER FILE SELECTION IN FILE DISPLAY MODE. If files are sorted by extension, first letter refers to the first letter of the extension. In either case the file selector bar will be moved to the first matching filename. 7. NETWORK DRIVES should appear in File Display Mode. 8. THE USER'S GUIDE. This is the roughly formatted text of the NED v1.5x user's guide. When you register you'll get the finished product. This file should still be useful to learn how use NED. To get a fast printout of the manual you can use the FASTPRN.EXE utility supplied with this release and described below. ** Printing the User's Guide ** Note: NED.DOC is already formatted to 66 lines/page, with page breaks embedded. This file should be printed using the DOS print command. FASTPRN can be also be used if you use the -a option. Tabstops are set to 4. FASTPRN.EXE usage: fastprn [-aefhlmpst?] input filename -h|? usage banner -l<lines per page>, default 66 -t<top/bottom margin (lines)>, default 3 -m<left hand margin>, default 0 -f<output filename> -s<starting line>, default 0 -e<ending line (-1=all file)>, default -1 -a no formatting, output only -p pause for keystroke after page FASTPRN takes the name of the file to print and formats it for printing (page/line layout) to the screen (default). You may redirect the output to a file or to the printer directly. Alternatively you can use the -f option to specify an output file. This could also be 'PRN'. The -t option allows you to set the number of lines from the top of the page to begin printing (default 3). The -l option sets the number of lines to a page (default 66). The number of lines printed on a page is always: linesprinted = linesppage - (2 * margin) this defaults to 60. Printing begins on line 4. The -s and -e options allow you to specify a starting and ending input line range to process. If either are omitted, processing commences from the start or to the end of the file. The -m option allows you to set a left hand margin. The default is 0. For example to print this file, centered on standard continuous page, fastprn read.me -m11 -fprn outputs directly to the printer. fastprn read.me -ap Suppresses formatting. When -a is used, lines per page will default to 24 and margins will default to zero. The -p pauses after each 24 lines (useful for examining the file from the screen. fastprn ned.doc -a -fprn Formats the file ned.doc to the printer(note that this is already formatted and needs only to be printed). fastprn read.me -l84 -t4 -p > prn Formats the file read.me directly to the printer. 84 lines per page are set with top/bottom margins 4. The program after each page. fastprn read.me -e250 > intro.txt Formats only the first 250 lines from the input file. Output is redirected to intro.txt. fastprn ned.doc -s1456 -e1760 > file.txt Formats lines 1456 to 1760 inclusively from the input file. Output is redirected to file.txt. If the first character on any line is a page break (chr 12) it is printed and the current line number is reset to 0. This permits hard page-breaks to be inserted and printed in a file. 9. When in File Display Mode, if the file selector bar is placed over the '\', NED will display the VOLUME LABEL of the current drive. When the file selector bar is over the current drive letter, NED displays number of BYTES FREE. 10. You can enter FILE DISPLAY MODE on the 2DOS COMMAND. If you select a file by pressing return, the full pathname of the file is copied to the command parameter string and you are returned to command mode and the cursor is placed at the end of the string. You may edit the command, add parameters or attempt to execute it (if it is a valid DOS command). See note 2). 11. F5 brace matching now recognizes the CHEVRON characters « and », the BANG(!) and INVERSE BANG(¡), and the QUESTION MARK (?) and INVERSE QUESTION MARK (¿). 12. DIRMAX statement in CONFIG.NED This defaults to 512 filenames for the file list, and for the maximum number of directory entries under File Display Mode. DIRMAX={64-10240} If you are working with directories that contain numerous files, increase DIRMAX accordingly. Keeping DIRMAX low saves on internal buffer space. 13. CALCULATOR/ASCII TABLES These can be run from within NED with F6 and SHIFT F6. You can also execute NCAL.EXE from the DOS prompt. NCAL prompts: Press (c)alculator, (a)scii tables or esc: 14. SOUND statement in CONFIG.NED Error beeps and blips can be suppressed by setting this statement to OFF: SOUND=OFF The default is ON. 15. HOME DIRECTORY - when you enter FILE DISPLAY MODE, the current (home) directory is displayed. If you change to another directory, NED will change to this directory the next time you enter File Display Mode. To force NED to select the home directory, press SHIFT F1 instead of F1 when you enter File Display Mode. 16. SEARCH INTERRUPT - you can now INTERRUPT a search by pressing ESCAPE. ********************************************************* Changes in version 1.6b 17. The ALT 0 (change colours) key is no longer supported. Use the COLOUR and INTENSITY statements in CONFIG.NED to set your colour preferences. ALT 0 is now used to change to area number 10. 18. The CTRL F9 and CTRL F10 auto-entab/detab toggles are no longer supported. Use the DETAB and ENTAB statements in CONFIG.NED to set your preferences. 19. SHIFT F4 no longer shells to DOS. Use ALT X. SHIFT F4 now forces entry to block mode in INTERLINE mode. 20. CTRL LEFT/RIGHT (previous/next word) bug has been fixed. 21. The 'p' option with the Laundry command is no longer supported. ********************************************************* New features in version 1.6b 22. If the FILE statement is set to nothing in CONFIG.NED and no file has been specified on the command line, NED will attempt to open the first file in FILES.NED if this file is found. ("FILE="). 23. NUMBER OF CHANGES - for each open file area are now displayed on the status screen (F10). A change means any single block mode cut/paste operation or any line change. Numerous individual character edits within a line will result in a single change increment when the cursor is moved off the edited line. Keeping track of this should help you to decide when to save your edits. Files with changes will display the number recorded in bold/blinking attribute; files with no changes display nothing in this column. If AUTOSAVE is on and the file has changed since it was last autosaved, the LOWERCASE DELTA character will appear next to the number of changes value. 24. NON-CASE SENSITIVE SEARCH - this is now the default. To force a CASE SENSITIVE search, press SHIFT ENTER when you enter the search string in command mode. 25. NEW KEY ALT J - this key allows you to JUMP BACK TO A PREVIOUS POSITION IN THE CURRENT FILE. The previous posi- tion is updated whenever the cursor is moved off the current line. For example: <esc>G300<enter><esc>G150<enter><ALT J><ALT J> by pressing ALT J, the screen is positioned at lines 150 or 300. 26. The RULER now displays the WIDTH OF THE CURRENT line marking the start and end of the line with the [ and ] characters. These will appear in bold attribute. If the start of the current line is outside and to the left of the edit window, a bold left arrow will appear in the first column; if the end of the current line is outside and to right of the edit window, a bold right arrow will appear in the last column. 27. AUTOSAVE - this can be set to occur at a predefined interval between 1 and 1440 minutes. The '4auto' command accepts either the new interval or 0 to set autosave off. The AUTOSAVE statement in CONFIG.NED allows you to set up the autosave interval on startup. The default is off. Autosaved files have the first character of their extension set to the carat (^) and any characters after are moved to the right, the last character of the extension if any, is dropped. These files will appear in the current directory or in the backup directory if one has been set. NED only autosaves a file if it has recorded any changes since the last autosave. The statement: AUTOSAVE=5 forces NED to save any changes to any file every 5 minutes. 28. The LAST 10 SEARCH strings and the LAST 10 REPLACE strings are available in command mode by pressing the up or down arrows on the S and R commands respectively. 29. The MAXIMUM WIDTH of a line has been increased from 256 to 1024 characters. 30. Symbols representing the left/right shift, ctrl and alt keys now appear in line 1 of the system window. 31. After executing a command, NED remains in command mode. To force NED to return to the edit window by default, set the statement: CMDEXIT=ON in CONFIG.NED. The default is OFF. 32. The time is continually displayed on the status screen. 33. NED NOW HANDLES 10 FILES. The quick key to change to area number 10 is ALT 0 (ALT 1-9 for areas 1-9). 34. COLUMN BLOCK OPERATIONS. NED now supports column block cut/copy/paste. There are now three types of block modes - INTRALINE, INTERLINE and COLUMN. Blocks that are cut or copied in one of these modes will be available for pasting in the mode in which they are cut/copied. Column pastes will occur at and below the cursor. If insert is on, the column is inserted at the cursor; if off, the column will overwrite at the cursor. 35. JOIN LINE now strips any leading whitespace characters except one character on the next line before joining it to the current line. 36. To force NED to enter BLOCK MODE in INTERLINE mode, press SHIFT F4. 37. CTRL SHIFT F8 searches for the current search expres- sion from the bottom of the file up. 38. File I/O has been improved. The time needed to read / write files is considerably reduced. 39. The calculator now supports BINARY and OCTAL modes as well as DECIMAL and HEX. The space bar/shift space bar toggles the current value between these modes. New functions: '>' and '<' allow bit shifting; 'n' gives the exponent; 's' the square root; 'S' the square. 40. You can PASTE FROM THE CALCULATOR to the file called "paste.cal". The result of an operation or a conversion is written to this file when you press 'p' and enter. 41. SAMPLE MACRO FILE - this will be loaded by default if MACRO statement in CONFIG.NED is set to path SAMPLE.MCR. This file contains some useful keystroke macros. Press SHIFT F7 for a summary of their functions. 42. For PC's with extended keyboards, SHIFT INS forces insert mode off. This is useful when recording macros. ********************************************************* Changes in version 1.6e 43. File timestamps are now in 24 hour format (DD:MM:SS). 44. AUTOSAVE intervals are now calculated from the time of the first modification to a from since the last time it was saved. An upper case delta appears next to the filename of a file that has changed and not been autosaved on the F10 status screen. This symbol is cleared when NED autosaves the file. 45. NED warns and prompts to continue when writing files that contain more lines than read. 46. NED and WINDOWS 3.XX will co-exist ok. NED can be run from a PIF or under an MS-DOS shell. NED will not interfere with WINDOWS hot keys. In one shell run NED and your current work files, and compile and execute in the other. ********************************************************* New features in version 1.6e 47. A REAL TIME CLOCK can now be displayed in the system window. CTRL SHIFT F5 toggles the clock on/off. This can be set in CONFIG.NED, with "CLOCK=ON/OFF". 48. LONG FILENAMES can be viewed in FILE DISPLAY MODE by scrolling LEFT or RIGHT when the file pointer is over a filename. 49. A NEW SuperFind utility is included in this release. SF is an improved file-finder. SF.EXE usage: sf [-h?apldq] [[d:][directory]...] -h print long usage, default False, excluded -? -? print short usage, default True, excluded -h -a search all drives, default False -p don't pause after each execute, default False -l <number of lines per page>, default 23 -d <maximum entries per directory>, default 2048 -q suppress verbose display, default False Instead of scanning all drives\paths for one filespec, SF scans and stores the entire drive\path once, and then allows you to search for any number of different files. As well as the familiar wildcards (? and *), SF permits files to also be located by size, attribute(s), date and time stamps and between a range of date/timestamps. An additional capability allows a DOS command string to be executed for each found filename. The filename is substituted into your command string by entering a '$' as the placeholder. For example, dir $/a will execute the dir <filename>/a for each find. ********************************************************* Changes in version 1.6x 50. The problem with NED detecting certain printer's status flags has been corrected. The spooler will operate more reliably. 51. For operation under WINDOWS 3.XX, CTRL F10 can be used instead of ALT SPACE BAR to toggle the RULER on/off. ********************************************************* New features in version 1.6x 52. LARGE DOS applications can now be run under a DOS shell. NED will swap itself out of memory to either extended memory, expanded memory or to disk, depending on which is available. If no extended/expanded memory is available, a disk swap file will be created in the TMP or TEMP subdirectories, or to the current directory if these are not set. Use a ramdisk if necessary. The swapp- er can be disabled by setting SWAP=OFF in CONFIG.NED. 53. COMPILE from within NED. Using the swapper outlined above, NED will execute a pre-defined compile string on the current filename. The compile string is defined with COMPILE= in CONFIG.NED (eg. COMPILE=cl /c /Os $). The '$' character is used as a placeholder for NED to subsititute the current area's filename. You can omit the '$', in which case NED will simply execute the compile string. This permits the execution of make and batch files. The compile string can also be set from within NED with the '5' Compile command. When in command mode, the up/down arrows return the current compile string for editing. To execute a compile, press CTRL F9. 54. The current compile string and the swap enable flag are displayed on the F10 status screen.