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| This VENDINFO Product Information File contains both readable text |
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VENDINFO standard v1.03, produced by VendEdit v1.22, 13-May-1995
===== Product Information ==============================
Product: TextPad Text Editor
Version: 1.28
Version Date: 13-May-1995
Product Type: Software
Basic Distribution Policy (see License, below, for details):
Shareware, subject to distribution restrictions
Product Description: TEXTPAD 1.28: Ziff-Davis Awards finalist.
TextPad - Editor for 16 & 32-bit Windows.
Features: it's fast & edits huge files; 2
views/file; word wrap; 25 editing commands;
full undo/redo; REAL drag & drop; BLOCK
select; hex viewer; tool & status bars; GREP
& file comparison; in-context help & popup
menus; DOS output window; & much more.
Writing Applications. HELIOS SOFTWARE
SOLUTIONS <ASP>
Reason for version: Maintenance release with various useful
enhancements
Category: Writing applications; Text editors
Keywords: TEXTPAD EDITOR WINDOWS NT GREP
Required Packages: TXPAD128
This Package: TXPAD128
Registration Fee: 30.00 (US Dollars)
Required Configuration
Processor Family: Intel 80x86 (minimum 80386)
Minimum OS: MS-DOS 3.1
Standard RAM: 1024K
XMS Memory: 0K
Hard Drive Space: 540K
Req'd Software: OLE 2 for full drag & drop. Win32s to run the
32-bit edition on Windows 3.1
Orders:
Address: Helios Software Solutions
Carr Brook House
Chorley Old Road
Brindle
Chorley PR6 7QZ
England
Phone: +44-(0)1772-324353
FAX: +44-(0)1772-324353
CompuServe: 100041,235
Internet: textpad@heliosof.demon.co.uk
Support:
Address: Helios Software Solutions
Carr Brook House
Chorley Old Road
Brindle
Chorley PR6 7QZ
England
Phone: +44-(0)1772-324353
FAX: +44-(0)1772-324353
CompuServe: 100041,235
Internet: textpad@heliosof.demon.co.uk
===== Information for Users ("READ-ME") ================
README.TXT for TextPad 1.28
===========================
Thank you for choosing to evaluate TextPad. It got the PC Plus Gold
Award in the May '95 issue, and it's a finalist in the 1995 Ziff-Davis
Shareware Awards competition.
Have you got the latest release? Updates are available from CompuServe
forums WINSHARE, WINUTIL and PCAPP as TPAD16.ZIP and TPAD32.ZIP. You
can also get it using FTP from oak.oakland.edu and other SimTel mirror
sites as /simtel/win3/editor/txpad???.zip.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
-----------------
INTRODUCTION
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS
INSTALLATION
BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY
RESTRICTED FEATURES
REGISTRATION
SETTING COLORS
TIPS
ENHANCEMENTS
KNOWN PROBLEMS
INTRODUCTION:
-------------
TextPad aims to provide the power and functionality to satisfy your most
demanding text editing requirements. It is Windows hosted, and comes in
16 and 32-bit editions. Huge files can be edited by either - just choose
the edition that works best with your PC. The 32-bit edition is only
limited by virtual memory, and it will work with Win32s and Windows 95
(Beta 3 or later).
TextPad has been implemented according to the Windows 95 user interface
guidelines, so great attention has been paid to making it easy for both
beginners and experienced users. In-context help is available for all
commands, and in-context menus pop-up with the right mouse button. The
multi-document interface allows multiple files to be edited simultaneousl
y,
with up to 2 views on each file. You can drag and drop text between file
s.
In addition to the usual cut and paste capabilities, you can correct the
most common typing errors with commands to change case, and transpose wor
ds,
characters and lines. Other commands let you indent blocks of text, spli
t
or join lines, and insert whole files. Any change can be undone or redon
e,
right back to the first one made. Visible bookmarks can be put on lines.
It also has a customizable tools menu, and integral file compare and sear
ch
commands, with hypertext jumps from the matched text to the corresponding
line in the source file (ideal for integrating compilers).
To find out more, install TextPad by referring to the instructions below,
and then read the introduction in the on-line help file.
MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS:
---------------------
16-bit Edition: 32-bit Edition:
o 386SX with 4MB RAM o 486SX with 12MB RAM (only for NT)
o 1MB free disk space o 1MB free disk space
o Windows 3.1 in 386 o Windows NT 3.1 or
enhanced mode Windows 3.1 with Win32s 1.2
(See Backwards Compatibility below)
INSTALLATION:
-------------
From a ZIP File:
1) Unzip into a new temporary directory, with PKUNZIP 2.04g.
2) Run SETUP.EXE using File Manager or Program Manager.
3) Follow the on-screen instructions, but install into a
different directory from that in step 1 above.
4) Delete the files unzipped in step 1 above.
From Floppy Disk:
1) From Program Manager, choose the Run command from the
File menu.
2) Type "A:\SETUP" to run the TextPad setup program.
3) Follow the on-screen instructions.
You can install both editions into the same directory.
There is no need to modify your search path.
You can associate various file extensions with TextPad, so that File
Manager starts TextPad when you double click a file. To do this, you
must enable TextPad's DDE capabilities. You can use REGEDIT to merge
the corresponding TXTPAD16.REG or TXTPAD32.REG file (or double click
the file with File Manager), but you must edit it first to give the
correct path to the TextPad executable. It assumes that your
installation directory is C:\TEXTPAD. See the on-line help for more
information.
BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY:
------------------------
The 32-bit edition needs NT 3.5, Win32s 1.25 or Windows 95 (Beta 3
or later). If you have NT 3.1 or an earlier release of Win32s, you
must patch the Windows subsystem in TXTPAD32.EXE using PATCHSYS.EXE
from the installation disk as follows:
A:\PATCHSYS -3 TXTPAD32.EXE
You can change it back again using "-4" instead of "-3".
RESTRICTED FEATURES:
--------------------
The following features are only available to registered users:
1) OLE2 drag and drop editing. Local drag and drop editing is always
available, but scrolling has not been implemented. This means tha
t
you can drop text in the visible view, but you cannot scroll the
view whilst dragging.
2) Searching of subdirectories with the Find in Files command.
REGISTRATION:
-------------
If you make use of TextPad you must register it. Registered users
will receive a copy of the latest releases of both the 16 and 32-bit
editions, along with the Win32s and OLE2 files necessary for running
in 32-bit mode on Windows 3.1.
Click the "How to Purchase" button in the About dialog box, or see
the file REGISTER.TXT for details.
SETTING COLORS:
---------------
The foreground and background colors used by TextPad can be modified,
but there is no user interface yet. To make changes, you must edit
the [Colors] section in TEXTPAD.INI. Each color is specified by 6
hex digits in the form BBGGRR, so black is 000000, green is 00FF00,
light gray is C0C0C0, and white is FFFFFF. You can only use the
sixteen standard Windows colors, so the nearest color will be used if
you specify anything else. The defaults are as specified in Control
Panel. Note that if you use TextPad to edit TEXTPAD.INI, your
changes will be overwritten when you exit, so use NotePad!
TIPS:
-----
- Ctrl+Left button in the left margin selects the whole file.
- Double left click in the left margin selects the line.
- Ctrl+Shift+O brings up a simple dialog box for file opening.
- In the Replace dialog box, '\t' is interpreted as a tab in the
replacement string, regardless of the Regular Expression check box
setting. To replace with the literal characters '\' and 't', you
must specify '\\t' as the replacement string.
- When the File Open dialog box is enabled for multi-file opening,
it does not show long file names (except on Windows 95). This
setting can be changed on the Configure/Options dialog box.
- After you have saved the Search or Command output results as an
ordinary file, it loses its hypertext jump property, but you can
always load an ordinary file into the Command output window by
capturing the output from the DOS TYPE command.
ENHANCEMENTS:
-------------
In This Release:
----------------
The Edit menu, and right button context menus have been redesigned to
offer more features in a concise form.
Settings for Tabs, File Filters, and Hypertext expressions have been
moved from the Configure menu to tabs on the Options dialog box.
Settings for Document Properties have been moved to a tabbed dialog
box, which includes a Statistics tab showing the word count, and
when the file was last saved.
The status bar is now "active". Double clicking a pane changes its
setting, except for Caps lock, Scroll lock, and word-wrap mode.
There's a new edit command to transpose adjacent words.
In auto-indent mode, a closing '}' on a line on its own is
automatically unindented.
The Tools menu now supports up to 16 user-defined tools, including
menu separators.
The Find in Files Command scrolls its output faster.
In The Last Release:
--------------------
A Select All command has been added to the Edit menu.
You can now print multiple copies to printers that don't support it
in hardware.
If a file containing null characters is edited, you get warned that
they will be replaced with spaces, rather than getting a hex view
of the file.
You can now make TextPad stay on top of all other windows. This is
set from the View tab of the Options dialog box. NB. It stays on top
of online help as well!
The maximum number of files on the Files menu has increased from 9
to 16.
KNOWN PROBLEMS:
---------------
The 32-bit edition cannot print to HP DeskJet 500 printers using the
HP driver under Win32s. This is an HP/Win32s problem. The workaroun
d
is to install the Microsoft driver for this printer instead.
Enjoy using TextPad! Please send any comments to us at:
_______________________________
Helios Software Solutions
Carr Brook House
Chorley Old Road
Brindle
Chorley
Lancs. PR6 7QZ
England
Phone/Fax: +44-(0)1772-324353
CompuServe: 100041,235
Internet: textpad@heliosof.demon.co.uk
________________________________________________________________________
Helios Software Solutions is an approved vendor and associate member of
the Association of Shareware Professionals (ASP).
________________________________________________________________________
===== Packing List =====================================
As released by the author or publisher, this package contained the
following files in addition to this VENDINFO.DIZ:
Filename Size Date Time CRC32
SETUP.CFG 1370 13-May-1995 01:28a 48744A50
FILE_ID.DIZ 413 13-May-1995 01:28a 4C97B1B8
CTL3D32.DLL 26624 13-Jan-1995 02:10p 38AB8BC9
CTL3D32S.DLL 26112 13-Jan-1995 02:10p 41A9B56A
CTL3DV2.DLL 21648 13-Jan-1995 02:10p 118E8B5B
UT16.DLL 3680 13-May-1995 01:28a F3DC11FB
UT32.DLL 5120 13-May-1995 01:28a 477E2F6C
DDEOPN16.EXE 6400 13-May-1995 01:28a 44262C8E
DDEOPN32.EXE 14336 13-May-1995 01:28a 5A28F879
PATCHSYS.EXE 19968 13-May-1995 01:28a B268DA39
SETUP.EXE 69264 13-May-1995 01:28a 462E8D86
TXTPAD16.EXE 411616 13-May-1995 01:28a AF093F6A
TXTPAD32.EXE 672768 13-May-1995 01:28a D2373EF1
TEXTPAD.HLP 136888 13-May-1995 01:28a 0482CF59
TXTPAD.PIF 545 13-May-1995 01:28a D9CA2239
TXTPAD16.REG 561 13-May-1995 01:28a 482ADA0D
TXTPAD32.REG 561 13-May-1995 01:28a 2C437999
FEATURES.TXT 2450 13-May-1995 01:28a 37D65F5F
FILELIST.TXT 1257 13-May-1995 01:28a CAC88022
LICENSE.TXT 5530 13-May-1995 01:28a D3C6FC2D
README.TXT 9360 13-May-1995 01:28a DA1CDF52
REGISTER.TXT 5088 13-May-1995 01:28a 42426AA4
===== Installation =====================================
From a ZIP File:
1) Unzip into a new temporary directory, with PKUNZIP 2.04g.
2) Run SETUP.EXE using File Manager or Program Manager.
3) Follow the on-screen instructions, but install into a
different directory from that in step 1 above.
4) Delete the files unzipped in step 1 above.
From Floppy Disk:
1) From Program Manager, choose the Run command from the
File menu.
2) Type "A:\SETUP" to run the TextPad setup program.
3) Follow the on-screen instructions.
You can install both editions into the same directory.
There is no need to modify your search path.
To enable TextPad's DDE capabilities, you can use REGEDIT to merge
the corresponding TXTPAD16.REG or TXTPAD32.REG file (or double click
the file with File Manager), but you must edit it first to give the
correct path to the TextPad executable. It assumes that your
installation directory is C:\TEXTPAD. See the on-line help for more
information.
===== License for Use and Distribution =================
T E X T P A D (TM)
Copyright (C), 1992-1995 Helios Software Solutions
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
(LICENSE.TXT)
LIMITED WARRANTY AND REMEDIES
THE PROGRAM IS PROVIDED "AS IS" WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY
KIND, EITHER EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED
TO WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY OR FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE. IN NO EVENT WILL THE AUTHOR BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR
ANY DAMAGES, INCLUDING INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
ARISING OUT OF THE USE OF THE PROGRAM, EVEN IF ADVISED OF
THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.
YOU ACKNOWLEDGE THAT YOU HAVE READ THIS LICENSE, UNDERSTAND
IT AND AGREE TO BE BOUND BY ITS TERMS AS THE COMPLETE AND
EXCLUSIVE STATEMENT OF THE AGREEMENT BETWEEN US, SUPERSEDING
ANY PROPOSAL OR PRIOR AGREEMENT, ORAL OR WRITTEN, AND ANY
OTHER COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN US RELATING TO THE SUBJECT
MATTER OF THIS LICENSE.
The attached VENDINFO data record is hereby incorporated by
reference. Any distribution satisfying all the distribution
requirements expressed in that data record is hereby authorized.
TextPad is a "shareware program" and is provided at no charge
to the user for evaluation. Feel free to share it with your
friends, but please do not give it away altered or as part of
another system. The essence of shareware software is to
provide personal computer users with quality software without
high prices, and yet to provide incentive for programmers to
continue to develop new products.
If you find this program useful and find that you are using
TextPad and continue to use it after a reasonable trial period,
you must make a registration payment. This registration fee
will license one copy for use on any one computer at any one time.
All users will receive a copy of the latest release of TextPad when
they register, and free technical support for a limited period
(see the on-line help for details).
You must treat this software just like a book. For example,
this software may be used by any number of people and may be
freely moved from one computer location to another, as long as
there is no possibility of it being used at more than one
location at a time. Just as a book cannot be read by two
people at the same time.
Commercial users of TextPad must register and pay for their
copies of TextPad within 30 days of first use or their license
is withdrawn. Site License arrangements may be made by
contacting Helios Software Solutions.
Anyone distributing TextPad for any kind of remuneration must
first contact Helios Software Solutions at the address below for
authorization. This authorization will be automatically granted
to distributors recognized by the (ASP) as adhering to its
guidelines for shareware distributors, and such distributors may
begin offering TextPad immediately. (However Helios Software
Solutions must still be advised so that the distributor can be
kept up-to-date with the latest version of TextPad.).
You are encouraged to pass a copy of TextPad along to your
friends for evaluation, but you must include all files in the
original distribution. Please encourage them to register their
copy if they find that they make use of it.
_______________________________
Helios Software Solutions
Carr Brook House
Chorley Old Road
Brindle
Chorley
Lancs. PR6 7QZ
England
Phone/Fax: +44-(0)1772-324353
CompuServe: 100041,235
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