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- short: Fast ascii viewer, last release, source included.
- type: text/show
- author: Martin Blom (lcs@lysator.liu.se)
- uploader: Martin Blom (lcs@lysator.liu.se)
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- TITLE
-
- Textread
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- VERSION
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- 1.14 (last release)
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- AUTHOR
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- Martin Blom <lcs@lysator.liu.se>
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- DESCRIPTION
-
- Textread is a more/ppmore/... clone. The main difference is the speed.
- Textread is designed to be as fast as possible, yet system friendly.
- Some of the features are:
-
- o Speed
- o Support for XPK and PowerPacker
- o Multibuffer
- o Multi settings
- o Softscroll (well it sucks, really)
- o RTG compatible
- o Can use any fixed-width font system-friendly
- o Can use any 8×8 pixel font on Amiga bitplanes
- with very fast text routines
- o Supports pipes
-
- Just download it and have a look.
-
-
- 1996-07-06
- ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
- This release is called 1.14, but it is not finished. Because I have
- failed - big time - to release new upgrades, I have decided to release the
- source code in the hope that somebody is willing to take over Textread. I
- still consider this program to be very good, I use it every day myself.
- Sure, some things are lacking, but the fact is that it has everything I
- need. That, and the fact that it is written completly in assembler, are
- the reasons why I don't have any motivation to continue to improve it.
-
- So instead of letting more time pass, my hope is that somebody out there
- can clean up the source, fix the bugs and release a new version. Or
- perhaps just keep the good parts and begin from scratch (may I suggest
- another language than assembler?).
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- SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS
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- AmigaOS release 2.
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- AVAILABILITY
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- Aminet, for example:
- ftp://ftp.germany.aminet.org/pub/aminet/text/show/Textread.lha
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- PRICE
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- Free.
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- DISTRIBUTABILITY
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- Copyright ©1992-1995 Martin Blom.
- Public Domain 1996
-