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QUOTE FOR THE DAY, FOR WINDOWS
Version 1.1
(c) Thomas Tuerke, 1990
"Proverbs are mental gems gathered
in the diamond districts of the mind."
- W. R. Alger
WOW!
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Quote for the Day, having garnered such amazing response, now as a new version
available: 1.1. In this new version, much has been added. Features that I have
wanted to implement, as well as many that have been requested by others, are now
incorporated.
WHAT'S NEW
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This is a list of the features new to 1.1:
- The Clipboard is now used by Quote for the Day: copy the current quotation
to be pasted into another application.
- Window position is remembered now. If you move the window, it will at that
location there the next time Quote for the Day is loaded.
- There are now dialogs to control Quote for the Day functionality.
- Now you may choose between one of three actions. The original 'pick a random
quotation', but also minimize, or close.
- With the new search feature, you can find quotations by some word or words in
the quote or author's name.
- Extensive on-line help. In fact, most of the documentation has been moved out
of this file into the help file.
- ATM now coexists happily with Quote for the Day. Thanks to the folks at GO ADOBE.
- Less tangible, but probably just as important, the code has been cleaned up to
get rid of some little nasties, as well as making Quote require less memory.
The executable has grown only 6K, but will occupy considerably less memory than
the original, due the segmentation of code.
Another significant change is that the quote file is now ANSI, not OEM/ASCII. This
means that while you can no longer use just any DOS text editor, you can edit
the file with almost any Windows word processor, such as Write or Word for
Windows. If you have added quotes to your quote file, you'll need to convert it
to ANSI. (If you would really rather, you can set ANSI=0 in the [Gravesend Quotes]
section of WIN.INI, and you'll be able to continue using OEM/ASCII, but seriously
consider moving to ANSI soon.)
WHAT TO DO
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Quote for the Day is ready to run 'out of the box'. If everything's in the same
directory, you should have no trouble running the program. For those of you that
would rather read the documentation before running the program, run WINHELP and
then OPEN the file QUOTE.HLP.
WHEN YOU HAVE QUESTIONS
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Gravesend BBS is also a good way (the best way, actually) to get a hold of me; the
number is 707-795-4939, up to 2400 baud supported (so far). Due to an unfortunate
accident, a different phone number appeared in the About screen of an early (test)
copy of version 1.1; please make a note of *this* correct number.
If you have your own quotations, I would love to see them; please send them along.
Already people have been interested in philosophical, biblical, and even fractured
quotations.
Other avenues are:
on UUCP as jandel.com!tmt@uunet.uu.net,
and on CIS at >INTERNET:jandel.com!tmt@uunet.uu.net
My USPS mail address is:
Thomas M. Tuerke
"Quote for the Day"
441 San Carlos Way
Novato, CA 94945