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BREEZE Copyright (c) Kevin Solway, 1989-93 - UPDATES - (Since 1991) Version 3.6 - Added further support for those people familiar with Wordstar commands. For example, Ctrl-K-B for mark beginning of block and Ctrl-K-K to mark the end of the block, Ctrl-Q-F for find, etc. - Seek place marker is now Ctrl-Q-S instead of Ctrl-K. - Formatting commands now indent text to the left margin if necessary. After you have imported text (either by loading a file or by reading a file into the document as a block) you can then format it to the conform to the left margin set within BREEZE. - With insert mode set to ON the tab key now inserts spaces into the text. With insert mode set to OFF the tab key simply moves the cursor over the text. - Now autodetects date format for date stamp. Version 4.0 With version 4.0 BREEZE has undergone a significant overhaul. - Now enables multiple files in different windows. That is, a number of files can be held in memory simultaneously and you can switch rapidly between them. - Added a clipboard, so you can copy text to the clipboard and then paste it into another file. (This is simpler than copying a block of text to a temporary file, then loading another file, and then reading the temporary file into the new file as a block). The clipboard is especially useful when used in conjuction with multiple windows. - Improved mouse handling and support. - faster and more direct cursor movement. - from within the edit window the mouse buttons now have the following functions: - left button : block begin right button : block end double click left button : main menu double click right button : window list both buttons at same time : main help menu; - at other times pressing the left button is the same as pressing the return key, and pressing the right button is the same as pressing the escape key. - Further improved support for Wordstar keyboard commands, including Ctrl-K-1 and Ctrl-Q-1 (set and seek place marker), Ctrl-Q-L (restore line), Ctrl-K-T (toggle tab), and Ctrl-K-Q (quit, same as Alt-X). - Bug fixes - when the dictionary was loaded and you pressed F10 or Esc to bring up the main menu, sometimes unwanted characters would be written to the screen temporarily. - fixed a few problems which appeared when available memory was very low, including the problem with adding lines when insert mode off. - fixed the problem when reading in a block too large for memory - the truncated block was wrongly marked. - screensaver sometimes left a dot on. - An asterix on the status line now indicates whether the document has remained unchanged since it was loaded or last saved. - With the text find and replace feature, case sensitivity is now set from the main menu, along with the option to find whole words only or include partial words. - When loading a file, if the file does not exist on disk, you are now prompted whether you want to begin a new document with that name (rather than automatically beginning a new document). - The main menu now remembers all the previous highlight bar positions, and restores them when you bring up the menu. Version 4.1 - Corrected some spellings in the dictionary - When moving the cursor upwards the screen now starts to scroll before the cursor reaches the top of the screen, similar to downward scrolling. This enables you to see where you are going. - If no block is marked and you select to perform a readability analysis you will be prompted if you want to analyze the entire document. - Blocks can now be marked using whole line mode. That is, entire lines will automatically be selected regardless of the current cursor position in the line. This speeds up block marking considerably, which is especially useful for programmers. This feature is available from the configuration menu. The default block marking mode is for individual characters, or "streaming" mode. - Fixed problem when loading a file via the pick list and the current file was not saved. If the save option was chosen then the new file was loaded as an empty file. - Find and replace missed some replacements when searching for single characters. - The screen saver is now active in any window, and not just from the edit window. Version 4.2 - Programs created with the text to .EXE converter now give you the option not to send standard Epson printer control codes when printing the contents. This gives better compatibility with laser printers. Also, tabs are now correctly expanded into spaces when printing. - With some screen saving programs, when returning to BREEZE the characters on the screen would blink. This has now been fixed. Version 4.3 - Added support for a wider range of printers. - Fixed bug when a filename of all empty spaces was entered. - Fixed an obscure bug which occured when saving file names to the pick file after analyzing text. - Fixed the problem of an "a" being added to the beginning of a macro sequence when the recording was initiated from the main menu. - Fixed a minor bug when entering a file name as a command parameter and the file was not found. You would be asked rename the next loaded file when you wanted to save it. - Increased registration price to $45 to cover increased costs, but decreased cost of upgrades from $20 to $10. Version 4.4 - Fixed bug with screen saver and autosaver. Didn't work correctly when adjusted to times greater than five minutes. - Fixed problem with line not wrapping when a style character was entered exactly on the right margin. If auto- reformatting was on at the same time this could jam the computer! - Fixed bug when floppy disk not in drive and when Breeze tries to read the disk directory, or when no matching files found. - The following improvements have been made to the text to .EXE converter: - Added option to remove special style codes when printing text to a file from the executable. - The executable programs created with Breeze will now automatically detect whether the user has a colour system. If not, then the default mono pallette will be used, unless changed by the user from the command line. This is a safety mechanism, to prevent you from selecting colours when creating the executable on a colour system which do not show-up clearly when the program is run on a mono system. - Added ability to move to main menu selections in the executable with a single keystroke. The main menu is taken to be the first one to appear in the text. Alt-0 : moves to main menu (the first one) Alt-1..Alt9 : move directly to main menu picks. - Added a help screen in the resulting executables. Press F1. This should make the program easier to use for beginners. - Added option to print (or send to file) the screen only, or the entire text from executable. - Fixed paper feed control for laser printers. Would send unnecessary blank pages. - Fixed periodic screen flicker on VGA screens. - Added support for the pound sterling symbol. Version 4.5 - Added graphical print previewer for registered users. - Improved time-sharing abilities for use on concurrent systems. - Added "Read manual" option in the files menu. This saves you the trouble of exiting to DOS to run the manual program. - Made the "format paragraph" function available from the options menu to reduce confusion for beginners. - Fixed bug where sometimes when loading a file from the pick list you were not returned to the correct line. - Added extra words to the dictionary. Version 4.6 - Can now save the page numbering mode in the configuration file. - When making an .EXE file out of the text, sometimes the closing brace ">" was not removed. This is fixed. - Added option to have centred page numbers when printing. Press return on the page no.s option in the print menu to cycle between page numbering modes. - The printer configuration file BREEZE.PRN (created with BRZPRINT.EXE) is now a text file that can be edited from within Breeze. You can change or modify the printer control commands as you like. - Fixed a couple of minor problems with laser printer support. - Added a ruler (options menu) showing columns and inches based on the cpi for the font selected in the printing options menu. - Pressing the Alt key and the Ctrl key simultaneously will immediately activate the screen saver. Version 4.7 - Added support for international keyboards and character sets. For example, Denmark, Italy, and Germany. - If support files not found Breeze now searches the path. - If expanded memory is available the dictionary is now loaded into expanded memory to make more memory available for text. - Can now save print indent left setting in the configuration file. - When using the "save as" feature you are now prompted with the path of the last loaded file. - Fixed bug in spelling checker. On rare occassions a misspelled word would be allowed to pass. - Improved speed of spelling checker. Version 4.8 - Corrected startup error in some copies of v4.7 - Improved installation program. - Using a command line parameter of ~ will force Breeze to automatically load the last loaded file on startup. For example, Breeze ~ - Line spacing is now set automatically according to the number of lines set for the page length (this assumes that you are using either 11 inch or A4 paper). Page length Line spacing automaticaly set to (lines per inch) 40..49 4 50..59 5 60..70 6 71..89 8 90..119 10 If you want a different line spacing to that which is automatically selected you can alter the line spacing manually from the printing options menu available from within the print menu. Version 4.9 - You can now BLOCK COLUMNS of text (as you would normally have in tables) for all normal block operations, including copying, moving, or copying to the clipboard for later pasting. Press F9 to mark columns as a block. - Option to print in Near letter quality can now be saved in the configuration file (from the configuration menu). - Added a "Strip returns" function to the Files menu. This function will strip return characters from the end of lines (except end of paragraphs) making the file suitable for importing into programs like "Windows Write". In this way you can type and edit your text within Breeze (which is fast) then load the text into another application (after stripping return characters if necessary) to make use of more advanced (and slower) formatting, fonts, and graphics. - Will now autodetect starting video mode. Will stay in condensed line mode if already set. - Faster keyboard rate for quick cursor movements. - Text viewers created with Breeze will now autodect the screen mode and will use compressed lines on EGA/VGA if already set. - Added extra start-up parameters to help you customize Breeze to your liking: -$ Exclude "End of file" marker -. Reformat puts just 1 space after sentence enders. -m Force monochrome output for any adapter (useful for laptops) -k Will avoid any keyboard rate adjustments. - Reduced registration cost from US$45 to US$35 for orders outside Australia (and from AU$45 down to AU$40 within Australia) Also reduced cost of upgrades from $10 to $8. - Added a file search feature which will search through all the directories of your hard disk for the required file. - Added code to disable Ctrl-Break if Break is set to on from DOS, preventing possible loss of data.