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Announcing the
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OS/2 Tagline Manager version 1.0
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The OS/2 Tagline Manager, TAGMGR, version 1.0 is a 32-bit plug-in utility
for electronic mail programs that aids in the creation of taglines.
FEATURES
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■ TAGMGR can read tagline collections from arbitrary files.
■ Since it is an OS/2 program TAGMGR has none of the memory limitations
inherent in many DOS tagline managers. Taglines can exceed 80
characters in length. More than 32,000 taglines can be in a single
file.
■ TAGMGR has a simple, uncluttered, user interface, that can be driven
either from the keyboard or from the mouse, according to taste.
■ Full context-sensitive on-line help. Want to know what the "Random
Effect" button does ? Simply give it the input focus and press F1.
Want to know what the "Reverse" menu option does ? Simply highlight it
and press F1.
■ TAGMGR has an automated mode, when you want to just choose a random
tagline from a file and return immediately.
■ A wide selection of 24 distinct special effects that can be applied to
taglines before returning them, such as "Right Justify", "Jumble
Letters", "Local Echo", "WideScreen", "Swap Case", "k00l dude", and
"BiFF".
■ TAGMGR normally uses standard output to return the tagline chosen,
allowing its output to be sent down a pipe if required, and manipulated
in a script.
■ TAGMGR can also, for backwards compatibility with DOS programs, create
JH?.REP files instead.
WHERE TO FIND TAGMGR
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The primary repositories for the TAGMGR distribution archive (which is
available in both ZIP and RAR format) are FIDONET nodes 1:109/921.0 (TSR
BBS in the U.S.) and 2:257/609.0 (Air Applewood BBS in Europe), from
whence it can be File Requested by anyone at any time of the day.
The TAGMGR distribution archive is also available on any site that hosts
the Fidonet file distribution echo from Fernwood BBS in the U.S., and on
the Hobbes FTP site run by New Mexico State University and the LEO FTP
site.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
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Jonathan de Boyne Pollard is a professional computer programmer who
specialises in consultancy and development of operating systems and tools.
Other previous projects of his include such things as a complete
replacement for the runtime library for Borland C++ 3.1, allowing it to be
used to develop 16-bit OS/2 programs, and OS/2 Command Line Utilities, a
suite of many useful command-line tools for OS/2 ranging from file finders
to digital clocks, and the 32-bit Unicode Console API. He also maintained
the Highly Unofficial Fidonet OS2PROG C++ Compiler Pros and Cons List for
several years, and is the moderator of the international OS2DOS Fidonet
echo. He is currently working on a project which he believes will
astonish 32-bit OS/2 users.
The best, most reliable, and quickest, way to contact him is on Fidonet,
by sending netmail addressed to either
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, FIDONET#2:257/609.3
or
Jonathan de Boyne Pollard, FIDONET#1:109/921.70,
which are his two permanent "point" addresses. Alternatively, you can
post a message in the Fidonet OS2PROG or OS2 echoes.
Another way to contact him is via the Internet mailbox
<J.deBoynePollard@tesco.net>. Since this is a mailbox hosted by one of
the U.K.'s "free ISPs", and subject to the standard "use every 90 days or
it will be deleted" conditions that such ISPs impose, this latter address
is not guaranteed to be reliable, or even valid, however.