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M u c h M o r e v 1.8
============================
© 1989 by Fridtjof Siebert
Nobileweg 67
D-7000-Stuttgart-40
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?
Because
MuchMore
is just better :-).
Muchmore
(19K) is much
shorter than LESS (28K). BLITZ or other programs that scroll
quickly or softly usually use 2 Colors and don't support any
special fontstyles.
MuchMore
instead has 4
C
o
l
o
r
s
and displays
bold
,
italic
,
underlined
and inverse 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
<FileName>
FileName is the name of the ASCII-Text that is to be displayed.
If there are any spaces in the filename it needn't and mustn't be
enclosed by quotes.
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 simply by pressing their 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 scrolls one page up or down.
PgUp / PgDn (numeric keypad):
Scrolls 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 become the new topmost line
on the screen. Else the last page will be displayed.
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 the first page of the text will 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 :-).
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
ColTest
Text that shows all possible combinations of colors
FoxText
Text that displays all fontstyles
src
(dir) This directory contains the source:
MuchMore.mod
The Modula-II Source, compiles with M2Amiga 3.2
QText.asm
\ The sources of the assemblerprocedures must
CopyLine2.asm
\ be assembled PC-relativ and inserted as
CopyLine1.asm
/ INLINE-Code into
MuchMore
.mod. A zero-Word
GetFontData.asm
/ at the end possibly has to be removed.
Every file is equipped with 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 that is less than
$6 or DM 8.-. It may be used there to display readme- and
documentation-files. My name has to be left in the program
(Help-function and while starting without argument).
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.
Stefan Ossowski is neither allowed to own nor to sell this product.
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).
Mail:
If you have any comments, donations, questions or PD programs just
send them to me! If possible, also send the return postage.
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.
--- Fridtjof.