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Welcome to Captain Blackbeard. We hope you will enjoy the high
performance easy to use editor, Captain Blackbeard. In addition to Captain
Blackbeard, your diskette contains several useful programs and files. The
following is a brief description of these programs.
CBMAN.BAT will generate an alphabetic listing of all Captain Blackbeard
features in the file CB.DOC.
SGMAN.EXE is the documentation generator. SGMAN.DOC explains how to use the
generator to generate the Captain Blackbeard manual.
BBF.EXE is the Blackbeard formatter distributed with Blackbeard. It provides a
simple "dot command" style formatting program. BBF.DOC describes its use.
.FNT are the various font files used in conjunction with BBF.
CBFILES.EXE is a directory program that produces output for use with
Captain Blackbeard's compile review processing.
GREP.EXE is the standard grep program, except that it generates
information so you can use it in Captain Blackbeard's compile/review windows.
The current language files are for Ada, C and Fortran 77. Contributions are
welcomed for these languages, or any other you may use, e.g., Pascal, BASIC.
If you are an OEM, e.g., a compiler developer, we are very interested in having
you include Blackbeard with your product. We are also interested in developing
customized versions of Blackbeard to meet your specific product requirements.
Please contact us so that we may mutually benefit from each other expertise.
We are very flexible in our working arrangements, and understand the dynamic
nature of the personal computer software market.
Captain Blackbeard
Captain Blackbeard (CB) is a self-contained program. The documentation is
built into the program itself. The help and menu system provide complete
information on all of Captain Blackbeard's functions.
Alt-H calls up Captain Blackbeard's help system. Captain Blackbeard's help
system is context sensitive and available for status line prompts and menu
selections. The help system is hypertext style, allowing you to move quickly
from topic to topic. The message line at the bottom lists the help function
keys.
Introductory help information topics are:
Running Captain Blackbeard
System Configuration
Installation
Menus
The key to using Captain Blackbeard is the menu system. All of Captain
Blackbeard's functions are available through the menu system. The Esc key
will pop up the menus. The menu consists of grouped commands. Each menu
contains a list of functions and corresponding key bindings. Help is
available directly on the menu for each topic.
Please note that Captain Blackbeard's Manual generator (CBMAN) is uses this
help information and does not produce any additional information.
Other topics of general interest are:
Registration
History
Copyright & Redistribution Limitations
Questions about Blackbeard
To run Captain Blackbeard use:
CB <filename>
Captain Blackbeard will display the startup screen and ask you for a file to
edit (if one is not present). For a list of files press just the enter.
NOTE: CB with no filename and the save/restore option on will load the
previously edited files.
Alt-H will pop up help. Esc will pop up the main menu.
Esc gets you out of both help and menus.
To become a registered user of Captain Blackbeard:
Send twenty-five (25) dollars to the following address. For your $25.00
you will appease your conscience about using unregistered software, be
placed on our mailing list, and receive the latest version of Captain
Blackbeard. The file FORM.TXT can be used as an order form. To order,
send a check to:
J K Powers
4604 Trafalgar Lane
Carlsbad, CA 92008
We thank you for your support.
Upgrades are available for $10.00 U.S.
Notes on version 2.65
New functions:
Menu Color - Selects Menu Color.
Error Color - Selects Error Color.
Help Color - Selects Help Window Color.
Help Reference Phrase Color - Select Help Reference Phrase Color. A
reference phrase is a user-selectable word or phrase in the help window
for which additional information is available.
Help Active Reference Phrase Color - Select Active Help Reference Phrase
Color. The active reference phrase is the reference phrase inside the
help window that the cursor is position on.
Help Topic Header Color - Select Help Topic Header Color. The topic
header is the name of the topic that appears inside the help window at
the start of each topic. Currently, the help topic header is never
displayed.
Define Linked Windows - Links the current window with other windows for
simultaneous scrolling. Cursor movement is tracked in both windows and
appropriate scrolling and movement is performed. The menu presented
allows you to toggle on/off linked windows. For example, if the current
window is window 5 and you toggle on window 6, then all cursor movements
in window 5 are applied to window 6 as well. Note: window links are
not bidrectional. The linked windows should be adjusted so that both
are visible on the screen. The current implementation is SLOW!, but at
times can be very helpful even though its performance is poor. If you
want to speed up performance, put both files on a RAM Disk.
Toggle Window Link - Toggle the window links on/off for the current
window.
Make Window - Creates a new editing window.
Next Window - Move to the next window.
Previous Window - Moves to the previous window.
Set Bookmark - Sets a bookmark at the current line and column in the
current file.
Show Bookmarks - Displays a pop-up menu of the defined bookmark.
Selecting a bookmark will reposition you at that location. Note:
bookmarks are currently not saved across editing sessions.
User defineable backup, save and log directories: See help for settings.
Notes on version 2.50
Tabs - The Tab Size setting defines how the tabs are interpreted. There
are two settings that define the operation of the tab: Show Tab
Character and Tab Compress/Expand. The following table defines their
effect:
Show Tab Tab Compress/Expand Action
ON ON Tab key inserts spaces using the
ruler defined tab stops. Spaces
are compressed to tabs as lines
Tab characters are displayed.
OFF ON Tab key inserts spaces using the
ruler defined tab stops. Spaces
are compressed to tabs as lines
Tab characters are expanded and
not shown.
OFF OFF Tab key inserts a tab character.
cursor movement adjusts per the
hard tab size.
The Ruler lets you reset the soft tab stops. See the Word Processing
menu. The ruler tab stops control how the tab and back tab react.
Note: tabs are only inserted into the text as you are working on it
when show tab character is off and tab compress/expand is off -- in this
setting the ruler is ignored. When tab compress/expand is on tabs are
never inserted into the text as you are woring on it. That is why a tab
followed by a backspace does not delete a tab to the left, because one
is not there. The tabs are only inserted (and removed) as the line is
saved to the scratch area and eventually to disk. If tabs are messing
you up, turn tab compress/expand off, you will then have a what you see
is what you get editor.
New functions:
Insert Date
Insert Time