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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!
- ----
- 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
- ----------
- 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
- ----------
- 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
- -----------------------
- 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
-