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- *** VIEW Version 9.6 August 1994 ***
- Recent history
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- View Version 8.6
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- ADDED: Support for Ami Pro. Note that because I do not use this word
- processor myself, I may not have caught all the formatting
- possibilities. If you have a file that doesn't display properly
- please send it to me and I will try to correct the problem.
-
- Support for code page 850 (European). VIEW now looks for which
- code page is active - 437 (North America) or 850. It chooses the
- appropriate one for displaying high-order characters. If the active
- code page is neither 437 nor 850, it defaults to 437.
-
- Support for viewing large files. If you try to read a file that is
- too big for VIEW, the program now spills the overflow into a
- temporary file. You can easily switch between the first part of
- the file you want to view and its overflow, without exiting to
- the file selection menu.
-
- REMOVED: "split large file" function. Removed because you can get a more
- logical series of places to split a file by converting it to
- ASCII from VIEW's file selection menu and then splitting it
- manually from a text editor.
-
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- VIEW Version 8.61
- =================
- Expanded code page 850 support for WordPerfect 6.0 and tidied up
- MS Word display.
-
- VIEW Version 8.62
- =================
- Corrected error that caused some video cards to operate only in
- 25 line mode even when they were capable of operating in other
- modes (e.g. 36 lines)
-
- VIEW Version 8.7
- ================
- Added a direct link to Tony Caine's JETCOL and 2COL printing
- utilities to allow the user of VIEW to specify command line
- options.
-
- VIEW Version 9.0 and 9.0a
- =========================
- Made substantial improvements to file selection menu, including a
- help screen. Added facility to change column wrap. Added support
- for viewing Wordstar files. Improved display options and
- identification routines for files of "unknown format". Improved
- the direct link to JETCOL/2COL, including printing large files
- directly from the file selection menu.
-
- Moved the "direct access to 2COL/JETCOL" key to F8, thereby
- disabling the "print screen" function; the equivalent is available
- by printing a marked block.
-
- VIEW Version 9.1
- ================
- Added "/mem" command line switch to allow user to allocate
- (temporarily) more memory for link to JETCOL and 2COL.
-
- VIEW Version 9.2
- ================
- Added partial support for WinWord 6.
- Changed the menu interface to enable an escape function for each
- menu item. Improved the printer selection interface and modified
- the configuration program to allow the setting of a default
- printer port. Added a function to change drive from the file
- selection menu.
-
- VIEW Version 9.2a
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- Corrected bug that caused erroneous display of first part of files
- that are too big to be displayed in full even with the overflow
- file. Improved the "select text string to find" interface. Added
- asterisk (*) to bottom right hand corner of screen when text
- search function is enabled.
-
- VIEW Version 9.2b
- =================
- Corrected bug that caused ASCII files to report "unknown format"
- after viewing short (less than one screen) ASCII file. Corrected
- bug that prevented WRITE files that begin with an OLE link from
- displaying properly. Changed " xx bytes read" during file read to
- show percentage read instead. Corrected typographical errors (!!)
- in configuration file interface.
-
- VIEW Version 9.2c
- =================
- Added function to escape from corrupted WordPerfect files after
- printing as much of them as possible to file.
-
- VIEW Version 9.3
- ================
- Completely redesigned algorithm for decoding Word for Windows 6
- files. NOTE: these files are OLE 2 and are very complex. Not all
- such files may be displayed properly. VIEW will attempt to detect
- what it thinks are "abnormal" WFW 6 files and display them as best
- it can.
-
- Added 132 column mode functionality. If you wish to run in this
- mode you must set VIEW to use the video parameters it detects (via
- the configuration program: set the video display parameter to 0
- or 1);
-
-
- VIEW Version 9.4
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- Enhanced the 132 column mode by adding "emulated" 132 column
- display. In this, if you are running 80 columns on screen, 132
- columns of text are available for viewing on each line by using
- the left and right cursor arrow keys. This feature allows you to
- print documents with more than 80 columns (for example, program
- listings) without forced line wraps. It also provides
- compatibility with a new feature in the registered version of
- JETCOL 3.3 (print in landscape mode). As before, the actual
- column at which line wrap occurs can be reset on the fly from the
- file selection menu.
-
-
- VIEW Version 9.5
- ================
- Added functions to print or convert a file directly without first
- viewing it. Added functions for setting basic HP and
- HP-compatible printer modes (portrait and landscape, normal and
- compressed print) for those printers that recognize the PCL4
- command set. Added ability to define column width (from 20
- to 132 characters) for display.
-
- NOTE: please read the documentation file. The /132 and /132m
- switches introduced in version 9.4 have been replaced by
- /wnnn and /xnnn (where nnn is a three digit number between
- 020 and 132).
-
- VIEW Versions 9.5a-c
- ====================
- Maintenace releases.
-
- VIEW Version 9.6
- ================
-
- Added ability to convert between ASCII and ANSI character sets. This
- enables you to view Windows NOTEPAD files and others that use the ANSI
- character set for high order characters (e.g. Ç, É, ì). Conversion from
- ANSI can be toggled from the file menu or on the fly while a file is being
- viewed. Conversion to ANSI can be done on the fly. NOTE: this has meant
- that the function key F10, formerly used on the view screen menu for exiting
- the menu, has been changed to space bar; F10 and Shift-F10 are now used for
- the ASCII-ANSI conversions. Changed the "show memory parameters" key on
- the file list screen from ? to m, for compatibility wih European and other
- non-US keyboards. Added a user-definable command for initialising printer.
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