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M u c h M o r e V 3.0
============================
© 1991 by Fridtjof Siebert
Nobileweg 67
D-7000-Stuttgart-40
Federal Republic of Germany
What is MuchMore?
MuchMore
is another program like More, Less etc. that prints
ASCII-Files to the screen. Unlike these, it opens its own screen
to show the text and to scroll it softly! But not only softly,
MuchMore
is also able to scroll very quickly if you want it to!
Furthermore, there are commands to search for strings and to print
the text.
MuchMore
will run on any Amiga, whether it's a PAL,
NTSC, overscan or any Amiga in future. Because
MuchMore
's screen
has no border, there are 80 characters displayed per line.
Why MuchMore instead of MORE, BLITZ or LESS?
MuchMore is much shorter than LESS. BLITZ or other programs that
scroll quickly or softly usually use 2 Colors and don't support any
special fontstyles. MuchMore instead has four
C
o
l
o
r
s
and displays
bold
,
italic
,
underlined
and inverse text. Unlike many other
programs,
MuchMore
may use any non-proportional Font to display the
text.
MuchMore
is ideal to display long texts. The text is loaded
simultaneously while it is displayed. That is, while you're
reading the first page, the rest of the text is loaded into memory
and you're able to move through the text quickly then without
re-loading it.
How to start MuchMore:
CLI:
Just Type:
MuchMore
[-l|-f<font>|-s<size>] <FileName>
FileName is the name of the ASCII-Text that is to be displayed.
If there are any spaces in the filename, it must be enclosed by
quotes. "
MuchMore
?" displays the usage. If
MuchMore
is started
without an argument and the arp.library is installed, it will ask
for the filename using arp's filerequester.
'-l' forces MuchMore to open an interlaced Screen. When you're
using an interlaced WB-Screen, this tells MuchMore not to open
an interlaced screen.
You may select a font by providing the options '-f<font>' and
'-s<size>'. To force MuchMore to use Topaz 11, type 'MuchMore
-fTopaz -s11'.
Workbench:
Just click the text to be printed with your mouse and then shift-
doubleclick
MuchMore
.
Texts with
MuchMore
as their default-tool (e.g. ":c/
MuchMore
"
when
MuchMore
has been copied to the disk's :c/ directory) can be
displayed easily by doubleclicking them.
MuchMore's commands:
The commands are activated by pressing the corresponging keys:
Space or left mousebutton:
Stops or restarts scrolling. While scrolling is
stopped the filelength, linenumber and the current
percentage of the text are displayed in the bottommost
line.
Pressing space at the end of the texts quits
MuchMore
.
BackSpace or right mousebutton:
Stops or restarts backwards scrolling. Works similar
to the Space-Key.
Up/Down or 2/8 of the numeric keypad:
Scrolls one line up or down.
If you press these keys together with the shift-key
you can start and stop fast scrolling.
Alternate plus these keys scroll one page up or down.
PgUp / PgDn (numeric keypad):
Scroll up or down one page.
T (top) or Home:
Moves to top of text.
B (bottom) or End:
Moves to bottom of text.
F (find):
Waits for a string to be entered and searches for this
string starting at the topmost line currently
displayed on the screen. The search is
case-insensitive. If the string is found, the line
containing the string will be displayed and the found
string will be highlighted. Else the screen will
display a beep.
N (next):
Searches for the next occurance of the string entered
with `F'. See above.
P (previous):
Searches for the previous occurence of the string
entered with `F'. It starts with the topmost line
that's currently displayed and searches backwards. If
the search is succesful, the line containing the
string will be displayed like it is by the F-Command.
Else a beep will be displayed.
Shift + Fn:
Shift plus one of F1 to F10 sets a text marker at the
current position.
Fn:
Jumps to the text marker #n that's been set with Shift
plus Fn. If text marker #n isn't set yet, it will be
set to the current position, as it would have been if
you had pressed shift plus Fn.
G (goto):
Opens a Window with an integer-gadget. You can enter
the number of the line that is to be displayed.
Shift + Alt + O (printout):
Prints the text. This is done with "TYPE text TO
PRT:". So it works with any printer when the
preferences are set correctly. The commands TYPE and
RUN must occur in the current C: directory. You don't
have to wait while printing. You can continue reading
the text with
MuchMore
. I hope that it is impossible
to press shift+alt+o accidentally, so you won't print
a 100k text when you in fact don't need a printout.
The printing cannot be interrupted, but you can switch
off your printer and wait for the printertrouble-
requester :-).
W (write):
Writes the text that's marked between the textmarkers
that have been set with F1 and F2 to a file or to PRT:
when you accept the default filename. The text is
saved starting at the topmost line of the page marked
with F1 until the bottommost line of F2's page. To
print the current page you just press Shift+F1,
Shift+F2, w and RETURN.
L (load):
Opens the arp-filerequester and loads a new text. This
command does only work if the arp.library is present
in the current libs: directory.
HELP or H:
Shows all
MuchMore
-Commands. This way everybody who
doesn't have this documentation file should be able to
use
MuchMore
. After pressing any key the text is
displayed again.
ESC, Q, X or 5 of the numeric keypad:
Quit
MuchMore
.
The Files in this package:
MuchMore
The executable
MuchMore.ReadMe
This textfile
MuchMore.LiesMich
German documentation
src
(dir) This directory contains the source:
MuchMore.mod
The OBERON Source
MMQText.asm
sources of the assembler procedures (A68k)
All files apart from the objectfiles have an icon.
Copyright:
MuchMore
is free to be spread on public-domain and shareware disks,
as long as they are sold for a reasonable charge. It may be used
there to display readme- and documentation-files. My name has to
be left in the program (HELP).
Although
MuchMore
is not Shareware, donations are welcome.
It's not allowed to use this in a commercial way without my written
permission. This permission is also necessary if you want to
publish
MuchMore
as a part of a commercial product or use
this program commercially in any other way.
If you change anything in my source you're allowed to put your name
in the program's head (:History.), but leave my name in! If you've
made any enhancements, please send them to me (else there'll be
thousands of different versions).
Revisions:
v1.0:
- this version was terribly slow and therefore not published!
v1.1:
- first published version.
v1.2:
- now the file's name, its length etc. are displayed when
scrolling is stopped with <Space>.
- now left and right mousebutton can be used instead of space and
backspace.
- controlcodes aren't displayed anymore.
v1.3:
- Strong increase in speed while scrolling. WarpText has been
replaced by QText (Sorry, Bill).
MuchMore
is now as fast as
Blitz (with Video Sync) although it uses a bigger screen.
- Now supports numeric keypad (home, end, PgUp etc.)
- Now the screen gets it's size from gfxbase^.normalDisplayXXX.
This way
MuchMore
can be run on PAL, NTSC, Amigas with an
Overscan- Workbench (like mine), and on resolutions that'll be
used in future. It always opens its screen as big as the
current Workbenchscreen.
v1.4:
- Displaying and loading of the text are now done by two
asynchroneous tasks. Scrolling is more homogeneous now and
there are no more stops to load further text.
- The feature to display several texts has been removed.
- Bugs in filelength and end-function removed
- New commands: find, next, previous to search for strings
- Scrolling stops when
MuchMore
's window becomes inactive.
v1.5:
- New command: print text (shift+alt+o)
- removed all imports to make
MuchMore
shorter
- added numeric key 5 to quit
v1.6:
- From this version on texts with different fontstyles (bold,
italics, inverse) and different colors can be displayed!
v1.7:
- Now
MuchMore
is again as fast as
MuchMore
v1.5 was, although it
uses 2 bitplanes and uses several fontstyles.
- Print (shift+alt+o) doesn't crash anymore when you quit
MuchMore
before printing is complete.
v1.8:
- Bug which occured when searching for a string having searched
for a longer string, removed.
- Strings found while execution of F, N or P are highlighted now.
- Added NK0 to display filelength etc.
v2.0:
- Ported
MuchMore
to OBERON
- Removed bug that caused RMB not to work on some amigas (it did
work on my computer)
- now uses the arp-filerequester
- new command: L = load new text
v2.1:
- Read-/write-errors used to create some very interesting crashes
with colorful graphics and stereo sound. I'm sorry, but I had
to remove this.
- CSI-Codes have been executed BACKWARDs. This caused problems
with sequences like <CSI>0;4m. Fixed now.
- New Commands: Ping & Pong, Goto
- First page is displayed immediately now when
MuchMore
is
started.
v2.2:
- Now
MuchMore
uses console's keymapping instead of the hardcoded
one it used before. So there won't be problems with any
japanese keymaps.
v2.3:
- New command: 's' (sleep) and pop up function lAlt+ESC.
'
MuchMore
-s' sleeps immediately.
- Bug in interpretation of <CSI>[m fixed. <CSI>[m is now treated
as <CSI>[0m.
v2.4:
- New Command: 'w' to write block to file or priner
- Argumentparser rewritten. Now supports quotes.
v2.5:
- Uses 8x8 Font set with SetFont instead of topaz 8.
- Allocates 4K Memory chunks instead of one memorychunk for each
line. So MuchMore won't scatter the Memory anymore. Another
positive effect is that MuchMore needs less nemory now (about
14 Bytes per line).
v2.6:
- asynchronous fast scrolling with the ctrl-key.
- MuchMore is reentrant (pure)
- MuchMore uses an interlace screen when the preferences are set
accordingly.
- On low chip-memory, MuchMore uses a 1-plane screen.
v2.7:
- '-l' to toggle interlaced mode
- uses ASL's FileRequester
- no more calls RethinkDisplay() 50 (or even 60) times a second
v2.8:
- leaves some spaces between the lines on interlace screens to make
the text more readable.
v3.0:
- sleep ('-s') is no more supported (was rarely used).
- now MuchMore uses any non-proportional font.
- new options to select a font: '-f<font>' and '-s<size>'.
--- Fridtjof.