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- The commands available to you are:
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- [H] Quick Help
- Tells you each command and the keypress required to activate it.
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- [?] Help
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- Displays this text. File EDT.HLP must be on default disk drive.
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- [C] Change current line number
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- Changes the current line number to any number specified by the
- user. The current line number is used by the List, Browse, and
- Insert commands to determine what line number to perform the command
- on. The current value for the current line number is shown above
- the * prompt along with the line itself.
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- [L] List next 16 lines
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- Displays the next 16 lines from the current line counter on. The
- line counter is not affected by this command.
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- [B] Browse next 16 lines
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- Performs the same as the List command (see above) except that the
- current line counter is set equal to the last line displayed in the
- command (the line counter will be incremented by 16 by this command).
- The Browse command is a quick way to see a section of your text. For
- instance, to see the next 32 lines of your program, type the B command
- twice. If you tried this with the List command, it would display the same
- 16 lines of the program over twice because the current line counter is not
- incremented.
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- [I] Insert text after current line
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- This function will allow the user to insert text below the current line.
- all the text (if there is any) below the current line is moved down prior
- to insertion. EDT will continue to allow you to insert lines until the
- signal "/ex" is typed on a blank line, or the text buffer of 400 lines is
- full.
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- [D] Delete a range of lines
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- This function will (you guessed it!) delete a series of lines. The current
- line counter has no bearing on the operation of this command. When D is
- depressed, EDT will prompt "Delete line " and wait for the user to type in
- the first line to delete. EDT will then continue "Delete line __ through
- line ", and will again wait for user input. The delete operation will not
- occur until the user confirms that this is what he wishes to do.
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- [F] Find ┬─[R] and Replace──────┬─[F] First occurance
- ├─[F] First occurance ├─[N] Next occurance
- └─[N] Next occurance └─[A] All occurances
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- This command, as shown by the diagram above, will allow the user to find
- the first or next occurance of a selected string, or optionally, replace the
- first, next, or all occurances of a string by another string (the program will
- insert or delete characters depending upon the length of the search string).
- A find pointer is used to keep track of the last Find/Replace done; it is shown
- when the Find command is invoked.
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- ║EXAMPLE:║
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- 1. To search for and replace the first occurance of a string type:
- [F][R][F]
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- 2. To perform the same operation on the next occurance of the string type:
- [F][R][N]
- IMPORTANT: EDT will not ask for the Search/Replace strings again when
- the [N] (Next) option is invoked for either Find and Replace
- or Find.
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- Save your text before trying out the Find command for the first time.
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- [S] Save text to output file
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- This function will save the text buffer to the output file as input
- by the user on the first screen. After the save operation is complete,
- the program will return to the * prompt. To change the name of the
- output file, see the Name command below.
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- [Q] Quit EDiTor
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- This command will allow the user to quit EDT without saving his text.
- EDT will confirm this action before surrendering control to DOS.
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- [E] Exit EDiTor
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- This command will save the user's text to the output file, and then confirm
- that the user wishes to exit EDT before exiting to DOS.
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- [C] Compact text file
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- This option will compact the user's text file, removing any blank lines
- that might be present. The program will confirm this before performing
- this option. The use of this command is to save space when nearing (or
- over) the 400 line limit on text files that can be edited using EDT.
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- [P] Print text file
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- This command will print the file in the buffer to the parallel printer.
- EDT will ask whether or not the line numbers should be printed next to
- each line. Be sure to turn on and load paper into your printer before
- issuing this command.
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- [N] Name output file
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- This command will allow the user to rename the output file name that EDT
- will use when the Save or Exit commands are invoked.
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- * * * * * * *
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- How EDT was written.
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- EDT Release 1.0 was written using the TURBO Pascal Compiler from Borland
- International. The program was written using straight Pascal; no machine
- language code was used (or needed).
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- Please contribute.
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- This program is distributed under the FREEWARE(tm) concept started by
- The Headlands Press with the PC-TALK communications software. I wrote
- this program to test out the TURBO Pascal Compiler- and it really is the best
- thing since peanut butter. If you want the source code to this program, ready
- to load in to TURBO's editor to see how it's done, send a check or cash for
- $10 to:
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- Andrew Brenner
- 504 Glen Court
- Oceanside, New York 11572
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- If you find this program useful, your contribution is appreciated ($10 sugg.).
- Remember, if you want the source code, send $10 and a blank DSDD diskette
- (you don't have to format it...) to the above address. Include a letter
- stating that you will not distribute the source code in modified form.
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- What's next?
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- If I get around to it, here's what I might add in the future:
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- · A visually-oriented screen editor option (that is, you move the cursor
- around the screen, like a real word processor).
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- · A virtual diskette routine (well, sort of...) that will allow text files
- of unlimited size in memory. It will see if a line needed is in memory,
- and if it isn't, it will get it from disk.
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- · If you can think of anything you would like added, let me know.
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- Registered users who have sent in a contribution will be notified of
- new releases of EDT.
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- This is the end of EDT help.
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- rs who have sent in a contribution will be