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- README for Alta Lista 1.6
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- Alta Lista's files:
- Alta_lst.ico Colour-Icon
- Alta_lst.prg The program
- Liesmich.txt This doc on German
- alta_l.htm Created by Alta Lista (Main list)
- alta_g.htm " (GIF files)
- alta_j.htm " (JPEGs)
- alta_p.htm " (PNG files)
- alta_i.htm " (IMGs)
- alta_d.htm " (Description file)
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- The NAQ - Many never asked questions
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- * Alta Lista??? What's that?
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- It's a picture and html document database for CAB. It uses the
- html commands to sort your files.
-
- * For what can I use Alta Lista?
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- You can make a list of all your html files in a specific directory.
- With Alta Lista you'll always know what title the page has,
- what it's about and how long it is.
- Another reason are the graphic CDs. Alta Lista can make a list of
- all GIF, JPEGs, IMGs & PNGs and will show them in a shrinkened version
- on one page.
-
- * How can I start Alta Lista?
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- Double-click on the program icon or rename it to ALTA_LST.ACC and
- copy it on your boot partition.
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- * Where are the dialogs?
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- I kept this old question although you can forget it now - Alta Lista
- has now a menu bar and a windowed alert! However it is not a full GEM
- environment with thousand of dialogs. But they were necessary to use
- Face Value and that's the reason why the program size increased
- enormously. 512 KByte Atari users - please go and buy a memory
- expansion! If you want to use it with a half mega byte, please remove
- all accessories
-
- * Alta Lista has problems with its file selectors!
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- Well, this version not.
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- * I don't want to make a list of all files in a directory. What can I
- do?
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- Use Selectric (or a compatible file selector) and select the files you
- want in your list. Alta Lista is since v1.1 Selectric compatible!
-
- * Alta Lista seems to be very slow.
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- Alta Lista needs to remove the HTML instructions from the files to get
- the pure text for the description file 'alta_d.htm'. But now you can
- stop Alta Lista during it's work: Simply click on "Cancel" while the
- process dialog (title: "Alta Lista is working....") is displayed.
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- To display the HTML files as fast as possible, use Netscape or Webspace.
- CAB is slower than Webspace but the display quality is better.
-
- * Shareware/Freeware?
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- Alta Lista is generally Freeware. That means that you can copy it for
- everyone without charging money from it.
- An exception are people who use it commercial e.g. to make HTML files
- for the picture folder of a CD-ROM. They have to pay for the program
- (it is only a small amount, like a Shareware fee). If you have questions,
- mail me and I will answer quickly.
-
- * Anything I need to know?
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- Publishing this program on a CD/Coverdisk is only allowed with my
- written permission (via e-mail).
- If you write about Alta Lista in a magazine/e-zine I would be happy
- to hear where you write the article.
-
- * Why is this program called Alta Lista?
-
- Please choose:
- 1) I like unusual program names
- 2) This program is inspirated by the web search-engine 'Alta Vista'.
- The file 'alta_d.htm' looks a bit like the screen that Alta Vista
- shows after having found a topic.
-
- * Are there any other programs I should know of?
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- Yes, there are!
-
- - HomePage Penguin: The first Atari web page creator!
- - HTML-Help: Useful utility for HTML pages.
- - Tabi!: Make HTML tables without knowing the HTML commands!
- - The Hotlist Bear: coming soon...
- - HTML-Rabbit: coming soon...
- - ... and some other proggys!
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- Newest versions are on my homepage. If you want to be add to a mailing
- list, register HomePage Penguin!
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- * Version History
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- 1.0 first version
- 1.1 support for Selectric
- Description file "alta_d.htm"
- 1.2 Alta Graphica pages look better
- Support for PNG images
- 1.3 Support for OLGA: OLGA is a program by Thomas Much which makes
- the communication between different applications much easier.
- It is similar to OLE on Windows. Example: CAB views "alta_d.htm".
- Now you edit some of the described files with an editor. If
- you restart Alta Lista, CAB will reload "alta_d.htm" after Alta
- Lista has finished its work.
- 1.4 I jumped over to version 1.5
- 1.5 Alta Lista uses Face Value as it's GEM engine
- Animated icons, process dialogs
- Mails are supported: The need to have the extender "TXT" and
- the keyword "subject". They are treated like normal HTML files.
- Support for IMG graphic format
- 1.6 Frame support!
- GIF images can be generated for Mails, HTML files, ASCII text,
- and images.
-
- * Reviews in computer magazines
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- Atari Inside/ST Computer issue 3/97 (review of version 1.2)
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- E-Mail: mjaap@hsw.ifl.uni-hamburg.de
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