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- QUICK NEWS EDITOR v1.6
- by Scott Pazur, SYSOP of The Flea Market BBS
- 201-446-1665
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- Quick News Editor (QNExx.EXE) is just that, a simple and fast way to update
- your PC-Board NEWS and NEWSG files to bring the latest news to your users.
- The editor itself functions much the same way as PC-Board handles message
- entry, with the same editing commands. Easy to use, simple to learn, and
- absolutely free.
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- Why a Version 1.5 only two days after releasing 1.4!
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- Thanx to Gary Thurlow for pointing out a bug in version 1.4 that didn't
- allow the use of path\filename. It worked fine when editing a file in the
- current directory, but blew up when a path longer than 8 characters was
- used. I'm happy to report that all is now well, enjoy...
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- And now a version 1.6 already! C'mon, what kind of programmer
- are you anyway Scott? Can't you get anything right?
-
- Well, Mark Rapp had a nice suggestion/question. Seems that Turbo Basic does
- not allow the extended ASCII character set to be input using the
- "LINE INPUT" statement, so I redid the code to be QB compatible, and simply
- recompiled to produce this version. Now you can enter those boxes, betas,
- and any ASCII character you desire into the QNE editor.
- Sorry, still no line wrap. The little things like this are easy to crank
- out, but the line wrap is going to be an interesting little project.
- One of these days...
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- Starting the program:
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- QNE now has four possible command line switches.
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- /F:filename - This is the non-color/graphics version of the
- file you wish to edit. QNE will also edit
- the filename above with a "G" appended to the
- name for the color graphics version, unless
- the /N switch is specified (see below). If the
- /F switch is omitted, QNE assumes you want to
- edit NEWS and NEWSG in the CURRENT directory.
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- /C - Forces editing screen (your screen, not the
- output files) into monochrome mode.
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- /N - Causes QNE to only edit/create/update the straight
- ASCII NEWS file, and will leave the G version alone.
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- /G - This option eliminates ANSI drawing chars from the
- non-color/graphics version of the NEWS file.
- For example:
- Without /G With /G
- ┌────────┐
- ───┤MM/DD/YY├──... ==[MM/DD/YY]======...
- └────────┘
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- Examples:
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- Some examples using the command line switches are:
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- QNExx
- - Will edit NEWS and NEWSG in the current directory (no /F).
- If they do not exist, they will be created.
- - Your screen will be in color during editing (no /C).
- - Will create/edit both NEWS and NEWSG (no /N).
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- QNExx /F:c:\pcb\gen\news
- - Will edit NEWS and NEWSG in the c:\pcb\gen directory (/F).
- If they do not exist, they will be created.
- - Your screen will be in color during editing (no /C).
- - Will create/edit both NEWS and NEWSG (no /N).
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- QNExx /F:c:\pcb\gen\news /C
- - Will edit NEWS and NEWSG in the c:\pcb\gen directory (/F).
- If they do not exist, they will be created.
- - Your screen will be forced to monochrome during editing (/C).
- - Will create/edit both NEWS and NEWSG (no /N).
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- QNExx /F:c:\pcb\gen\news /C /N
- - Will edit NEWS in the c:\pcb\gen directory (/F).
- If they do not exist, they will be created.
- - Your screen will be forced to monochrome during editing (/C).
- - Will only edit/change NEWS, and not NEWSG. (/N).
- do not exist, they will be created.
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- QNExx /F:c:\pcb\gen\news /C /N /G
- - Will edit NEWS in the c:\pcb\gen directory (/F).
- If they do not exist, they will be created.
- - Your screen will be forced to monochrome during editing (/C).
- - Will only edit/change NEWS, and not NEWSG. (/N).
- do not exist, they will be created.
- - Will not use ANSI drawing chars in NEWS. (/G)
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- Editing notes:
- The editor does not yet have word wrap! You've got to hit ENTER for each
- line. (word wrap will be included in a future release). Limit each line
- to 74 characters. If not, they will be truncated. Hitting ENTER on a
- blank line ends the line editing. You will then have the following
- choices:
- A - Abort edit, restore files to original state
- S - Save edits
- C - Continue editing from the next line
- D - Delete a line
- I - Insert a line
- L - List text entered thus far
- or E - Edit text in a particular line
- These choices function much the same way as PC-Board's message editor.
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- Also:
- Once the S option is chosen, and only if you are editing a color/graphic
- NEWSG file, you will be asked for a color choice. QNE will save the text
- portion of the current NEWS file in the color of your choice.
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- I lied!
- Sorry, this is not absolutely free as mentioned before. If you use it,
- and like it, or even if you don't like it, call my board and tell me!
- Let me know if a DOOR version would come in handy, or if there's
- something you'd like added, or that it's just the thing you were looking
- for, or that you hate the Mets (I might not appreciate that last one too
- much <grin>). Anyway, I hope you find this useful...
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- By:
- Scott Pazur SYSOP of The Flea Market BBS 201-446-1665 24hours 1200/2400
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- Version 1.3 Released 04/30/87
- Version 1.4 Released 05/27/87
- Version 1.5 Released 05/29/87
- Version 1.6 Released 06/02/87
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