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ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1. Introduction ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


 WSedit - Write&Set Editor 0.95, Mai 2003

Freeware Editor for OS/2, eCS, Windows95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP and Linux (planned)
which reads Wordstar (DOS) 4-7 and ASCII (ISO and IBM  codepage) and writes
Wordstar 4 and ASCII format (ISO and IBM codepage). User Interface CUA (Windows
Standard) and Wordstar (with Ctrl shortkeys).

Most Wordstar Ctrl commands are supported. The behaviour of WSedit depends on
the text file extension. In the settings notebook, you can define different
properties dependent on the file extension of the file.

The idea of WSedit is to have a modern graphical 32-bit application with
look-and-feel of old Wordstar for DOS and Windows editor behaviour
simultaneously. You can also use WSedit without knowing Wordstars Ctrl commands
("Ctrl" is abbreviated ^) and without knowing about the Wordstar file format:
if you don't use the Wordstar file format, WSedit is a powerful text editor for
large ASCII files with/without word wrapping. In this case, it will be
nevertheless useful for you to take a look at the dot commands for unformatted
files and at the Ctrl commands.

The WSedit Freeware program is a part of the full-featured Shareware
wordprocessing suite Write&Set. Write&Set consists of two programs: one for
writing (WSedit) and one for "setting" - means formatting, previewing and
printing (WSformat). If you have installed both WSedit and WSformat, you get
the look-and-feel of a single program. Write&Set is based on Wordstar dot
commands (formatting commands in the text, beginning with a dot at the
beginning of a line). You enter a raw text with dot commands and without fixed
margin in WSedit (WS file). After you have finished writing, WSformat will
compile the raw text to a formatted text (FMT file) with fixed margins which
can be viewed again in WSedit. This formatted text can be previewed and printed
to all printers which are installed on your operating system. Write&Set
supports contents, index, footnotes, bitmaps, hyphenation. In opposite to
Winword-like programs, Write&Set won't get problems if text documents gets
large. For more information, visit http://www.WriteAndSet.com .

To convert Write&Set files to hypertext formats, you are encouraged to download
Hypermake http://www.hypermake.com . It is a hypertext compiler which compiles
Write&Set files, Wordstar 4 files or ASCII files with Write&Set syntax to HTML,
Winhelp, MS HTML-Help or IBM Help. Hypermake is Freeware for a text file length
up to 20 kB, otherwise Shareware.

To get a short impression how a Write&Set raw text file looks like, you will
find the raw text of this documentation in the Write&Set archive file
(docusrc\WSedit-e.WS). You can format and print this raw text by using
WSformat. I have used Hypermake to generate a Help file from this raw text
file.

Important note for Wordstar 5-7 users: please note that WSedit always saves
Wordstar files in Wordstar 4.0 Format. Additional Wordstar 5-7 features get
lost or, e.g. footnotes, will be converted to Write&Set format.

subchapters:
Feature list
(no) installation
More about Write&Set
Differences to Wordstar 4

next chapter:
Essentials of WSedit


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1.1. Feature list ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

WSedit has got the following properties:

     in opposite to Wordstar DOS native Windows or OS/2 program, later also
      Linux, of course supporting long filenames
     reading and writing TXT files, reading WS4 and WS5-WS7, writing WS4
     CUA key support (Windows key commands)
     detail behaviour appropriate to WS4/5
     holding different user settings dependent on the file extension of the
      text file
     when working with an unformatted file, text is reformatted if the window
      width is changed (word wrap)
     switching between different screen fonts (for the whole document)
     no 80 column limit like Wordstar DOS
     paragraph formatting with soft characters ("snow characters") like
      Wordstar
     nearly no file size limit (there seems to be a limit at approximately 20
      MB)
     supports workgroups (one person has write access, the others can only
      read)
     contents tree in a separate window like a directory tree to navigate in
      large documents
     command highlightning (e.g. for HTML files)
     marking lines with Hard Return and Soft Return in the rightmost column
     multi undo, undo slider window
     TXT Import and Export (IBM and ISO codepage)
     highlightning spell-checking function where you can let analyse your own
      already spell-checked files to get a personal dictionary
     translation functionality if you download separate translation files
     Macro recorder for defining Function keys
     last but not least, very fast and stable.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1.2. (no) installation ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


The Write&Set archive file has got an installation program included which
installs WSedit and WSformat together and creates file associations and entries
in the start menu.

Using WSedit as an stand-alone application does not need a real installation
program. Unpack the files of the archive to a new directory of your choice. To
"install", simply create a new program object (OS/2) or make a shortcut of the
EXE file (Win) by dragging the WSedit.EXE file to your desktop; while dropping,
press Shift and Ctrl simultaneously. This will create a shortcut pointing to
the EXE file. Now you can drag and drop arbitrary text files to the WSedit icon
on your desktop. (Win) Double clicking to a text file with unknown extension
like ".WS" will show a dialog where you can choose the WSedit.EXE file as the
default program to open with.

For installing Write&Set (WSedit together with WSformat), run the INSTALL
program after unpacking the archive file.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1.3. More about Write&Set ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


WSedit has no formatting and printing ability. This does WSformat. WSedit and
WSformat together are "Write&Set". This is a full-featured word-processing
software supporting hyphenation, graphics, footnotes, contents and so on.
Please visit http://www.WriteAndSet.com

Word processing with Write&Set is very different from those Windows word
processing programs such as Winword or StarOffice, and also differs in some
respects from Wordstar for DOS. Word processing operations are closer to Latex
than to Winword. With Write&Set, the task of 'text content editing' and that of
'typesetting' are sequention operations, rather than simultaneously. This
concept simplifies word processing and enables you compiling a single document
with hundreds of pages without any problems. The way to get a complex document
involved some or all of the following steps:

Step 1: Editing Text is prepared as an (unformatted) 'raw' text file (a WS
file) using WSedit. Such a text file will not include fixed margins. If you use
WSedit, the margin of the displayed text depends only on the settings of the
editing window and the screen font.

Step 2: Starting WSformat, formatting the unformatted raw-text WS file to
produce a formatted FMT file:

The WSformat 'format' function reads the raw-text WS file and writes an FMT
file. It does not modify the WS file in any way. In the FMT file, which can be
also viewed using WSedit or Wordstar (DOS), the right margin is now fixed, the
page breaks are apparent, and words at the end of the line which require
hyphenation are displayed accordingly.

Step 3: Minor changes by hand on the formatted FMT file

If you are not satisfied with some formatting details, you can make small
changes to the FMT file. These include such things as incorrect hyphenations,
and more importantly, page breaks which can be improved.

However, avoid making bigger changes to the FMT file; if these are considered
necessary, it is more expedient to make the changes to the WS file and run
WSformat again. Because WSformat formatting is extremely fast (about 100 pages
per second, depending on your processor and the nature of the text), this does
not represent a significant delay in production.

The WSformat preview feature helps in locating sections of the text where the
printout can be improved. The printout in the Preview window mirrors exactly
page printout.

Step 4: Printing the final version of the document

After making the final changes to the FMT file, select in WSformat the physical
or virtual printer installed on your computer and print your document. This is
done the same way as it would be for other current word processors. Besides
physical printers (laser or inkjet printers), it is possible to use 'virtual'
printers (FAX and PDF creation programs).


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 1.4. Differences to Wordstar 4 ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


I tried to get the same look-and-feel like Wordstar 4. If you find differences,
please let me know.

But there are some essential differences caused by the different internal
structure of WSedit.

The WSedit editor is based on a non-wordwrap line-orientated editor written for
programmers which already supports some Wordstar Ctrl commands. It's an
object-orientated program, so I had to add or to overwrite some parts like
word-wrapping, spell-checking, paragraph indention and so on. But I can't
change some essentials of the editor. These essential properties - different to
Wordstar DOS - are:

     The editor holds all characters in lines which are limited to 255
      characters.

     The characters you will see are the same which are stored in the memory
      of the computer. In consequence, some Wordstar behaviour of showing text
      is not possible:
        -  It won't be possible to draw a line behind ".PA", instead WSedit
           shows the page break by background-highlightning
        -  ^OD "do not show toggles" is available since 0.92, but pressing any
           key will show the toggles again: You can't type while toggles are
           not shown.
        -  Snow characters (soft spaces) are directly stored in the memory by
           the ASCII character you will see in WSedit (ALT-176); you can
           directly enter this character by ALT-176 or ^I. The TAB key is
           identical to ^OG.
        -  If you enter ^OB to omit the snow characters, all snow characters of
           the file are changed from ALT-176 to ALT-255 which is a second SPACE
           character; after retyping ^OB, ALT-255 is re-changed to ALT-176. So
           don't use these two characters in your text for other purpose.
        -  For hyphenation characters at the end of the line, ALT-240 is used.


 After saving a WSedit WS file, the file is accurately identical to Wordstar 4.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2. Essentials of WSedit ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


subchapters:
Rightmost Column
Marking Text
Titlebar
Menu Bar, Popup Menu
Ctrl Menu
Drag and drop
Undo

next chapter:
Dot commands


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.1. Rightmost Column ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


The background of the rightmost column of the editor shows different colors if
this property is enabled (Ctrl-OO settings notebook - highlt):

     Lines beginning with two dots (comment lines)
     Lines beginning with a single dot (dot commands)
     Lines with a Hard Return at the end
     Lines with a Soft Return at the end.


 A Hardreturn is the end of a line where you have entered RETURN manually. In
 any formatting, this Return will exist.

 A Softreturn disappears if the formatting gets different. If you change the
 window size of WSedit and you edit an unformatted file, the editor let appear
 and disappear Soft Returns.

 In the "special functions" menubar item, you will find commands where you can
 transform text with Softreturns into text with Hardreturns and reverse.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.2. Marking Text ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

WSedit blocks exists independent from the cursor. In classic graphical text
editors and wordprocessing applications, a block is a "big cursor" and the
cursor is no more existing while a block is marked. The WSedit block will only
disappear if you click with the mouse again into the window, but not with
Cursor movements by using Cursor keys.

Blocks created by Wordstar Ctrl commands have got different  properties, they
do not disappear even you click with the mouse into the window again, see
Chapter Ctrl Commands - Block commands.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.3. Titlebar ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


The titlebar of the WSedit window shows a lot of information.

(4,226*) in parenthesis means Column 4 and Line 226, the * star shows you that
the file was modified since the last Save.

The "Par" (german "Abs") number counts the Hard Returns up to the cursor
position, dot commands are also counted. In unformatted files, the line number
in parenthesis is dependent on the current formatting, so the "Par" number is
the only useful orientation you will have in unformatted files!

In Write&Set formatted files (FMT files), an additional "P" and "L" number
(Page, Line) is shown like Wordstar does (german "S" and "Z"). These values
depends on the page formatting dot commands.

Then, the filename is shown.

If the column block mode (^KN) is activated, "COLUMN" is shown.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.4. Menu Bar, Popup Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


WSedit has got a Menu Bar and a Popup menu (activated with the right mouse
button) which are functionally identical. To get a maximum of room for text,
you can disable the Menu Bar (Options - Show/Omit Menu Bar). To get the Menu
Bar back, press the right mouse button and select the same menu item again.
"Options" - "Windows-like Popup" switches between two appearances of the popup
menu.

The Menu shows important commands or commands which are not expected in a
"Wordstar-like" editor. Some functionality which affects the whole file and
which is not often used is only located in the Menu and is not in reach from
Ctrl key commands. Macro recording only works with key commands and not with
the Menu.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.5. Ctrl Menu ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


You can activate the Ctrl Menu by typing ^J (means Ctrl-J) or by typing the
"Wordstar Ctrl-key menu commands" ^K ^Q ^O and ^P. These Ctrl commands expect a
second character key and are not typed alone. If you type one of these commands
alone and wait a moment, the Ctrl Menu automatically appears.

If the Ctrl Menu has got the focus, you can type the missing second character
key or you can doubleclick to the function you want to have executed.

When typing Ctrl commands fast (by heart), the Ctrl Menu does not appear
automatically. In the settings notebook, page misc, you can define the time
delay for activating the Ctrl Menu.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.6. Drag and drop ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


You are allowed to drag and drop a marked block to another text position or to
another WSedit window. To drag and drop, use the right mouse button. The
default function is moving the block. Pressing CTRL while dropping will copy
the block. You are also allowed to drag text file icons to a specific position
of the text area. This will read the file (Wordstar Ctrl-KR).


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 2.7. Undo ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


WSedit has got a powerful multi undo functionality.

You can undo your input by typing Alt-Backspace and redo by typing
Shift-Alt-Backspace or you can open the Undo Slider window by pressing ^OU.

The number of undo events can be set by the user, see Misc Page of the settings
notebook. The recommendend number of undo events depends on the settings (press
^OO) of the Wrap Page.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3. Dot commands ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

A dot command is part of normal text you type into the editor. A dot command is
a complete line beginning with a dot, for example

.BD

If there's not dot at the first column, the line will be printed and not
interpretated.

If you want to use WSedit as an ASCII editor, you can use dot commands
nevertheless. In the "File - Export" function, there's a dot command filter.

Dot commands aren't case sensitive. Some dot commands require parameters, for
example

.TB10

will set a tabulator stop at column 10. You can leave a space between the dot
command and the parameter.

A very useful dot command is a line beginning with a double dot:

..don't forget to add this and this!

This is a comment line which won't be printed. In the "File - Export" function,
you can choose whether to export comment lines or not.

subchapters:
unformatted files
formatted files

next chapter:
Ctrl Commands


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.1. unformatted files ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


In comparison to WSformat and Hypermake, WSedit (unformatted) interpretes only
a few dot commands:

 .TB 5,7,10,20

With ".TB" (a Wordstar 5 command), you can set the tabulator stops: You can let
jump the cursor to the next tabulator stop by typing TAB or ^OG; up to the
tabulator stop, "snow characters" are automatically inserted. The default
setting is ".TB4". With "File - Export", snow characters are converted to
spaces or ASCII tab characters.

You can change the ".TB" value and then type Ctrl-B on the lines which you want
to have modified. Ctrl-B is a on-screen formatting command which uses the tab
stops of the last ".TB" command.

 .BE  (enabling word wrap)
 .BD  (disable word wrap) (or .BA)

Normally, word wrap is on. In tables, it can be necessary to turn off and on
word wrap functionality. You can do it by typing the commands ".BE" word wrap
enabled and ".BD" word wrap disabled.

Because WSedit cannot handle lines larger than 255 chars, ".BA" sets the right
margin to 250, and this will have (nearly) the effect of turning word wrap off.

 .RM 60

The Wordstar Right Margin command is interpreted while writing an unformatted
WS file to disk. By default, a WS file created by WSedit will have set the
right margin to 78, so you can read the WS file with a DOS Wordstar without
problems. On the WSedit screen, you won't see an effect of ".RM".


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 3.2. formatted files ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


If you don't use Write&Set or Wordstar (DOS) and use WSedit stand-alone, you
won't need to work with formatted files. "WSedit (formatted)" means using
WSedit together with files with extension ".FMT" instead of ".WS" or ".TXT".
FMT files are automatically created by WSformat.

WSedit (formatted) shows the page breaks like Wordstar does it. For counting
lines and pages, only four commands are interpreted:

 .PL  (Page length)
 .MT  (Margin Top)
 .MB  (Margin Bottom)
 .LH  (Line Height)

Instead of showing a page break line, WSedit (formatted) shows the page break
by highlightning the background, dependend on the "Highlightning" settings in
the Highlt Page of the settings notebook.

In formatted files, automatic word wrapping is disabled. This is defined on the
"wrap" page of the settings notebook.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4. Ctrl Commands ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


subchapters:
"I hate the mouse..."
Cursor movement
Quick commands
Block commands
Toggles and Special chars
Delete text
The Trash Buffer
On-screen Formatting

next chapter:
Special Functionality


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.1. "I hate the mouse..." ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


WordStar is a very old editor which was already available before the first IBM
PC existed. In this time (end of the 70's), the computers had got a Ctrl key
but nearly nothing more than a typewriter keyboard. Keys like "Page down" were
not available on all computers this time. The mouse was not invented yet. So it
was necessary to have the full functionality of a Computer text editor by using
Ctrl and the character keys from A to Z.

Today, the Wordstar Ctrl commands can be very useful for people who type blind
to the keyboard. If you can type blind, you should take a look at the Ctrl
commands. They offer you the ability of blind cursor movement, block
manipulation and more - all commands where you normally use the mouse.

If you take a look at the Ctrl Dialog window (press Ctrl-J) and you are not
familiar with Wordstar Ctrl commands, you will think it's difficult to learn
this. But it is easier than it looks, because there's a logical principle
behind the key combinations.

Ctrl is abbreviated ^. The Ctrl-keys overview window (Ctrl Menu, press ^J) is
complete, this overview not.

To locate the text cursor which your eyes lost, press the CTRL key alone
without another key. This will force Cursor highlightning, if it is enabled
(^OO settings notebook, page misc).


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.2. Cursor movement ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


Take a look at your keyboard. Between the S and the D key, you have to imagine
a central point. This is the geometrical center of all cursor movement keys:

^S, ^D: Cursor left, right
^A, ^F: Word left, right
^E, ^X: Cursor up, down
^R, ^C: Page up, down
^W, ^Z: Scroll up, down

(For german users: Z and Y is changed on german keyboards)


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.3. Quick commands ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

By typing ^Q ("Quick") before some of the commands above, you will get a
"strong" or "repeat" effect:

^QS, ^QD: Cursor to the begin, to the end of the line
^QE, ^QX: Cursor to top, end of window
^QR, ^QC: Cursor to the begin, end of the document


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.4. Block commands ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

In addition to the "modern" mouse selection of text, this editor supports the
Wordstar block commands. Blocks marked by Wordstar commands are not transient.
The marking of the block disappears only if you delete the block (^KY) or if
you hide the block (^KH). Marking a block by using the mouse will be transient:
clicking into the text with the mouse will let go the block. Nevertheless, you
can mix CUA commands (like Ctrl-Ins for "copy block into clipboard") with
Wordstar Ctrl commands.

^KB: mark the beginning of the block
^KK: mark the end of the block

^QB: jump "quick" to the beginning of the block
^QK: jump "quick" to the end of the block

^KC: copy the block to the cursor position
^KV: move the block to the cursor position

^KR: read file into block at the current cursor position
^KW: write block into file

^KY: delete block
^KH: hide/show block marking


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.5. Toggles and Special chars ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

You can enter the ASCII characters with the decimal numbers from 1 up to 26 by
entering ^P, followed by a character key from A to Z. To get ASCII 1, enter
^PA, for ASCII 2 enter ^PB and so on.

There are a few exeptions:

     To get an ASCII character 0 in Wordstar files (^P@), press ^PZ.
     The ^Z character is not supported, of course. (Some editors interprete
      this character as "end of file".)
     ^M and ^J (decimal 13 and 10) is also omitted. These characters
      represents a Return in an ASCII text.


 Write&Set and Wordstar use some of these characters as "toggles", that means
 they are used in pairs. E.g. ^PS turns underlining on and off.

 Besides ^PZ (Wordstar ^P@), the corresponding character images of the IBM
 Codepage are shown, e.g. ^PB is a face, ^PS a double exclamation mark.

 If WSedit was loaded with a Wordstar file, a new item "emphasize" appears in
 the menu bar. With this menu, you can insert toggles and special chars with
 the mouse. Marking a block before using this command let you insert toggle
 chars in pairs.

 Only the editor itself accepts ^P commands. If you want to enter these ASCII
 charcters into an edit field of the search dialog or the search/replace
 dialog, you can choose one of the following possibilities:

     use the ALT-(Number) commands
     or put the ^P character from the editor into the clipboard and paste it
      to the editfield
     or type the character ^, followed by a letter, e.g. ^B for the "bold"
      character
     or type the hash (doublecross) sign, always followed by three digits
      representing the decimal ASCII value.


 By default, WSedit provides syntax highlightning for the toggles

     ^PB bold
     ^PS underlined
     ^PT superscript
     ^PV subscript
     ^PY italic


 but you can change this in the Highlt page of the settings notebook.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.6. Delete text ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

The deleting keys are located in the middle of the keyboard:

^G: delete character on cursor position (same as DEL)
^H: delete character left from cursor (same as BACKSPACE)
^T: delete word right from cursor
^Y: delete line
^QY: delete line right from cursor


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.7. The Trash Buffer ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


If you use ^T, ^Y or ^QY for deleting, the deleted text part will be stored in
a "trash buffer". With ^U, you can paste the content of the trash buffer to the
current cursor position. This is e.g. useful for changing the position of two
words: ^T^F^U. The trash buffer is independent from the clipboard.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 4.8. On-screen Formatting ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

^B reformats a paragraph on-screen. After some special commands, a line can
exceed the window width. In this case, typing ^B will reformat the current
paragraph.

If you edit an unformatted file, the text fits always the window width.
Changing the window size will always reformat the whole file. You can also
force reformatting the whole file by typing ^OF.

If you want to indent a paragraph, you can enter a TAB or ^OG at the beginning
of the paragraph. The indention depends on the last ".TB" dot command.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5. Special Functionality ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


subchapters:
Contents window
Spell checking
Function key macros
Read only files, Workgroups
Backup functionality
Translation

next chapter:
Settings Notebook


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.1. Contents window ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

The contents window is activated by entering ^OC or ^OI. You enter a heading in
your text by using the dot commands

 .1
 This is a level-1 heading
 .2
 This is a level-2 heading
 .3
 This is a level-3 heading
 .3
 This is also a level-3 heading

In the printed document and in the contents window, you will get a structure
like

 1. This is a level-1 heading
 1.1 This is a level-2 heading
 1.1.1 This is a level-3 heading
 1.1.2 This is also a level-3 heading

If you use "File - Export", the dot command will be interpreted and converted
e.g. to "1.1.2".

WSformat and Hypermake are based on this heading syntax.

Wordstar dot commands ".i1", ".i2" are automatically converted when loading a
WS file.

If the contents window is open, you can double click to a line and you will get
to the editor position where the corresponding heading is located.

If you press ^OC, the contents window will be simply opened. When typing ^OI,
in addition the heading will be marked where the editor cursor is currently
located. (In WSedit for OS/2, you have to scroll sometimes to see the marked
heading line.)

There are some buttons at the bottom of the window:

     expand and collapse the function tree
     refresh: the contents window and the go-to information for
      double-clicking to the heading lines will be actualized. If you double
      click and get to a wrong editor position, use "refresh".
     >clip: copies the text of the selected heading into the clipboard
     >file: writes the complete current contents into the file "tempcont.txt"
      in the current text directory.
     digit in editfield: represents the heading level which is written into
      the file. If you enter "3", the heading levels 1, 2 and 3 are written
      when using >file.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.2. Spell checking ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


In WSedit, there is a simple but effective spell checking function implemented.

subchapters:
How to get a dictionary
Working with the spell checking function

next chapter:
Function key macros


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.2.1. How to get a dictionary ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


To use the spell checking function, you have to create a dictionary by yourself
or you can visit http://www.WriteAndSet.com and download the current dictionary
collected by WSedit users.

All spell checking functionality is available from the Menu, item "spell
checking".

You can enter a filename for the dictionary in the Dict Page of the settings
notebook. If you don't enter a directory, the spell checking file has to be
located at the same directory where WSedit.exe resides.

If you want to create a dictionary by yourself, you need to have existing
Wordstar or ASCII files which are already spell-checked or where you can be
sure that there are no incorrect words: Load the file into WSedit and choose
"spell checking - absorb current file to dictionary".

If you have received another WSedit dictionary file from a friend or from the
Internet, you can merge this file with "your" dictionary file by using "import
external directory".

The principle of the WSedit dictionary is quite simple: If a word has to be
absorbed, the endings

(english) es 's s ions ion ings ing
(german) es e 's s en em n

are cutted and the first character is converted to lower-case. Then it is
compared to the contents of the dictionary. If no similar entry is found, it is
placed into the dictionary.

The dictionary file is a normal ASCII file in IBM codepage. The words are
sorted by an internal sort algorithm, not by the alphabet. You can add manually
words at any position.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.2.2. Working with the spell checking function ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


You can turn on and off spell checking by entering ^QL. The background of
unknown words is getting red. There's no spell checking dialog window. You
simply press ^QO, and WSedit learns all words from the beginning of the file up
to the line of the editor cursor. Some marking of words below the cursor will
automatically disappear. To go to the next marked (wrong) word, you can simply
type ^L. (If spell checking is disabled, ^L is the command for "search/replace
text again".)

If you find an incorrect word which is not highlighted and in consequence the
wrong word is part of the dictionary, you can correct your dictionary by moving
the mouse over the wrong word and choosing "remove single word from dictionary"
in the popup menu.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.3. Function key macros ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Perhaps you have noticed that you won't find "press F7 to get this and this" in
the WSedit documentation. Function keys are not defined in WSedit, besides some
function keys used by the operating system (F1 for help, F10 for system menu,
this depends on your operating system). All other function keys can be defined
by the user.

subchapters:
Storing macros
Recording macros

next chapter:
Read only files, Workgroups


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.3.1. Storing macros ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


Press ESC to get the "function key macros" window. There are four listboxes:
FX, Shift-FX, Ctrl-FX and ALT-FX. Combinated keys like Shift-Ctrl-F7 are not
supported, but 4x12=48 macro definitions should be sufficient!

Clicking to a function key name like "F4=" will show a window where you can
record and play macros like a music tape.

The macro commands are saved in separate files in a new directory F-MACROS
located in the directory where WSEDIT.EXE resides. You can copy the files
located in the F-MACROS directory and send it to another WSedit user. The name
of the macro file shows the key, e.g. SHIFT-F5.DTA. (When german language is
set, the file name will also be "SHIFT.." or "CTRL..").

You can change the allocated key of a macro by renaming the file and reopening
the function keys window.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.3.2. Recording macros ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


The function key macro recorder records only keystrokes, with some exceptions.
So don't use the Menu, don't use the Ctrl menu. Instead, type the key commands.

It is allowed to use the dialog windows

     ^QF find dialog
     ^QA search/replace dialog
     ^KR read block from file
     ^KW write block to file.


 If you play the macro, the dialog window won't appear. The information which
 was produced by the dialog is stored directly in the macro. So you can write a
 macro "write block to the file TEMP1.WS". While recording, the usage inside
 the dialog makes no difference. You can click to the filenname or type it.

 It can happen that some specific function keys do not work at all. These
 function keys are defined by your Operating System and are not available (e.g.
 Alt-F4 for closing a window).


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.4. Read only files, Workgroups ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


If you are a single-worker, this chapter won't be interested for you.

If serveral persons work with the same text files, you will normally get a
problem. Some editors like DOS Wordstar do not allow two programs (or users) to
read a file. So you won't have a problem by overwriting a file, but on the
other hand reading a file simultaneously won't be possible. Others allow
reading and writing, but if two persons have opened the text file
simultaneously, only the changes of the person who saved the file at last are
written to the file.

The WSedit workgroup functionality is enabled by checking when opening, set
file to read only (for workgroups) on the Save Page in the settings notebook
(^OO).

WSedit sets the read-only flag of the text file if a user opens the file. The
first user has got write-access. All users who open the file later won't have
write-access, but they can read the file. To remember that writing is not
possible, the background is gray instead of white or blue and in the title bar
"READ ONLY" appears.

After the user which had got write-access leaves the file, the WSedit program
of the other ("read-only") user catches automatically the write-access and the
window background turns to white (or blue).

If the user with write-access saves the file, the other users will get
automatically an actualized file content.

In the Menu, you will find a command "File - let go write access". Here you can
give your write-access to the other user - your WSedit switches to read-only.

To simulate a dual-user mode, open one text file twice by starting WSedit two
times.

If the workgroup functionality is enabled, the text file which is opened by
WSedit is set to read-only. If WSedit crashes (what we won't hope!), the text
file will rest in read-only state. To turn on or off the read-only workgroup
feature, open the settings notebook of the text file icon (right mouse button,
properties) and activate/deactivate the "read only" checkbox.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.5. Backup functionality ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


WSedit supports two kinds of backup functionality which can be set in the Save
Page of the settings notebook.

With a specific time delay, WSedit saves the content of the editor into an
ASCII file (even the current file is in WS format). The name of the file is
always the same. It is located in the directory where the text file resides.

WSedit writes the text to the backup file every e.g. 3 minutes, but waits for a
moment where for e.g. 5 seconds no character key was pressed.

In addition, you can let rename the old text file to *.BAK when the file is
saved by the user.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 5.6. Translation ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

WSedit supports two kinds of translation: Bubble Translation and Dialog
Translation. Normally you will use Bubble Translation when reading a text in a
foreign language and Dialog Translation when writing a text in a foreign
language.

To use translation functionality, you have to download the translation
dictionary files from http://www.WriteAndSet.com (yet only German to English
and English to German). Then copy the two files to the location where
WSedit.exe resides and fill out the settings notebook Dict Page.

Bubble Translation: After typing ^OT, words or expressions at the mouse
position are translated and the result is shown in a yellow bubble help window.

Dialog Translation: ^OV activates a dialog where you can enter the expression
into the edit field. In the Listbox below, several possible translations are
shown. If Bubble Translation is also activated, these several possible
translations are re-translated in parenthesis so it will be easier to select
the correct translation.

The re-translation has the effect of a Thesaurus: a single expression
translated to another language and re-translated back will show 10 or 20
slightly different expressions.

Double clicking to a listbox item or single clicking and pressing OK copies the
translated expression into the Trash buffer. It can be copied to the cursor
position by typing ^U.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6. Settings Notebook ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


subchapters:
General
File Page
Wrap Page
Save Page
Dict Page
Misc Page
Highlt Page
WS page

next chapter:
About WSedit


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.1. General ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


WSedit has got a settings notebook: select "Window - WSedit settings" or press
Ctrl-OO. The information is stored in the binary WSEDIT.DTA file which is
located in the same directory where WSEDIT.EXE resides. WSEDIT.DTA is read when
WSedit is started and it is written when you exit WSedit. If several WSedit
windows are opened, the last window overwrites the settings of the other
programs. So if you want to make changes, make sure that only one WSedit is
running.

The contents of the settings notebook is dependent on the file extension. It is
possible to store entries for up to 20 different file types.

There are also some other settings stored in the WSEDIT.DTA file dependent on
the file type which are not part of the settings notebook, e.g. window size and
font size.

You can enter a new file type by pressing the "New" button outside the notebook
itself. The entry field near the "New" button gets empty and you can enter a
new file extension. You are allowed to enter more than one file extension for
one file type, separated by colon and without spaces, e.g.

HTM,HTML

If you define a new file type, the notebook entries of the type which was
active before pressing "New" rest in the notebook. So choose the file type with
the closest settings before pressing "New".


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.2. File Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


The File Page is the most important page of the settings notebook. Here you can
define the text file type Wordstar / ASCII and "with word wrap", "no word
wrap".

ASCII Codepages

The codepage of the ASCII file depends on your operating system: OS/2 and eCS
uses IBM (DOS) codepage, Windows and Linux ISO codepage. But Wordstar file
format has always IBM (DOS) codepage.

If you want to save or read a file in the not default codepage, then use the
file - import/export function in the menu of WSedit.

Wordstar format

"Unformatted" shows Wordstar/Write&Set files like in an ASCII Editor with word
wrap on; saving an "unformatted Wordstar file" will create a right margin of
78, so the file will fit the screen of a DOS Wordstar with its 80 column
window. While saving a file, "Wordstar formatted" stores the formatting of the
text (the position of the Soft Returns, the hyphenation), "WordStar
unformatted" will destroy all Soft Return and hyphenation information!

If you reformat a "Wordstar formatted" file, WSedit fetches the right margin
value from the last ".RM" (right margin) dot command.

In Wordstar 5, 6 and 7, the data format differs from Wordstar 3.4 and 4. WSedit
reads Wordstar 3.4 up to 7, but writes always Wordstar 4 format (which can be
read by Wordstar 5, 6, 7 without problems). But it is possible that some
formatting information gets lost. Footnotes/endenotes gets converted to
Write&Set/Hypermake format.

Distinguish WS tabs is only relevant if you have got Wordstar (DOS) files.
Wordstar knwos two different tabulators: the ^I and the ^OG tab keys. If you
check this box, the ^I tabs are converted to normal spaces, otherwise they are
converted to snow chars.

Default checkboxes

The two "Default..." checkboxes can be checked only by one file type.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.3. Wrap Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


The Wrap Page has got a great influence to the "feeling" of WSedit. If the file
type supports word wrapping (see "file" page), you can choose the personal
behaviour of wrapping text:

     with time delay is my personal favourite setting. If enabled, you can
      select a delay time which omits a continious reformatting while typing
      text. I prefer 0 quarter seconds.

     after every keypress is the behaviour of most word wrap editors. Because
      of the need of reformatting a big paragraph after every keypress, the
      amount of processor time becomes noticeable on slow computers. If you
      type very fast and your computer is not fast, this setting is not
      recommended.

     only by hand (^B) is the classic old DOS Wordstar behaviour. A lot of
      people get confused if the text is reformatted automatically while
      writing. Ctrl-B reformats the paragraph from the cursor to the end of the
      paragraph. In any case, the paragraph is reformatted if the cursor
      exceeds the line.

     not at all deactivates reformatting. Soft Returns are handled like Hard
      Returns. Even ^B has no effect.


 The undo slider works more efficient if WSedit does not reformat a paragraph
 too often: if the text is reformatted every second while typing, there are a
 lot of events to remember for the undo functionality: one event per line and
 in a 10-lines paragraph for 10 events per second. You can reduce this event
 amount by using "with time delay" and a higher delay time value, e.g. 4.

 The Cursor left/right checkbox influences the behaviour of cursor movement. If
 disabled, the behaviour is like in a programmers editor: you can reach every
 point of the screen by using the cursor. If enabled, the cursor follows the
 text. Where there is no text, you have to fill the line with spaces to reach a
 position where no text is written yet (or simply use the mouse). The behaviour
 does remember to the ^OX Wordstar command, but it's not the same. Anyway, you
 can toggle this behaviour by typing ^OX.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.4. Save Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


The "Save" Page is related on opening, saving and write access.

Starting WSedit without parameter influences the behaviour when starting WSedit
without opening a file at the beginning. You can get a file dialog at the
beginning or you get an empty editor field with the filename Newtext1,
Newtext2, Newtext3 (up to 9). These files are located where WSedit.exe resides.

When opening, set file to read only is the read only workgroup functionality of
WSedit. This helps you sharing text files with your collegues in the network
where several people have got access to a text file: the user which opens the
file first has got write access, the others have got only read access.

Refresh WSedit if file was written by an external editor is useful for files
which are created by another program and are read in WSedit. Every 1,5 seconds,
WSedit compares the file date with the date where the file has been read the
last time. If the date has changed, WSedit automatically reads the actualized
file. If you have changed the text file in the editor, WSedit asks whether to
loose changes or not.

There are two independent Backup functionalities.

Backup helps you to restore a file if your computer or WSedit crashes. WSedit
writes the text e.g. every 3 minutes to a TXT file (even Wordstar format is
used; use the clipboard to copy the text back). The file is  located in the
directory where your current text file resides. You can change the name of the
file. If you have got several WSedit files open where the text files shares the
same directory, all editors uses the same backup file. (I assume this is not
relevant in practice.)

Create *.BAK files renames the old text file to *.BAK when the file is saved
again. (If you use OS/2 or eCS and start WSedit by double clicking the text
file icon, I cannot recommend this setting. The text file icons shows the gray
open background after WSedit is closed; this is caused by the object structure
of the WPS which is independent from the file names.)


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.5. Dict Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


For the spell checking function (^QL), you can enter a file name of the
dictionary. It has to be in WSedit/Hypermake format. Before a word is compared
with the words in the dictionary, the ending of the word is cutted. You can
define other endings if you use WSedit in another language.

WSedit supports two different kinds of translation functionality: Bubble
Translation (^OT) and Dialog Translation (^OV).

If you don't enter a full pathname, the two translation dictionary files are
searched in the directory where WSEDIT.EXE resides.

Both spell checking and translation files can be downloaded from
http://www.WriteAndSet.com


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.6. Misc Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


The miscellanneous page holds all settings which are not part of the other
topics.

WSformat-related bubble help let you turn on and off bubble help for dot
commands which is shown in the WSedit editor, but generated by WSformat. This
also affects the font sample window when moving the mouse cursor over font dot
commands.

max Undo steps influences the behaviour of the Undo slider. If you choose a
high value (e.g. 10000), a slow motion of the slider will redo a lot of events,
so it can get less practicable. If you choose a low value (e.g. 100), the undo
functionality will be too limited.

delete word right from cursor (^T) influences the behaviour of the ^T command.
The middle setting is the same as in Wordstar DOS, auto correct spaces is a
self-made further development improving changing the position of two words
where one word is located near a dot or a comma, but sometimes it shows a not
Wordstar-like behaviour.

Ctrl Menu time delay defines the time from pressing e.g. ^K and activating the
Ctrl Menu. Experienced users know the commands, and between the first and the
second key of the double-key commands like ^KB (mark beginning of block)
there's only a close moment. But if the user hesitates, the Ctrl Menu should
appear. The time value depends on your knowledge of Wordstar commands and your
key typing speed.

Cursor highlightning when editor idle
If you don't use the editor for a while, it can be visually difficult to detect
the cursor position again. WSedit shows a lightblue cross after a while. Enable
this setting and enter a smaller time, if you have got problems in detecting
the cursor. After every keystroke or mouse click, the counter controlling the
appearance the cursor highlightning restarts. Typing the CTRL key without
another key forces the highlighted cursor immidiately.

If close, save without querying
If checked, closing the WSedit window by clicking the Close button in the title
bar will automatically save the text file without question.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.7. Highlt Page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


The usage of Highlightning depends on the used file type. E.g. in
Write&Set/Wordstar/Hypermake files, dot commands and printer characters are
shown highlighted. The left checkbox window (double clicking and not
single-clicking changes the checkbox state), the Wordstar, Hypermake and
Write&Set syntax is supported. On the right window, you can enable and disable
HTML syntax. Do you miss other highlightning functionality?

Sorry, but the read index dot command ".IC" is BUGGY, please do not use if not
really necessary. You can enter a default Index char below instead which is
valid for the whole document.

Independent from the syntax of the text you write, one highlightning feature is
useful anyway: the checkbox rightmost column shows type of line (outside the
listboxes) let you distinguish Soft Return lines from Hard Return lines. This
is very useful if you use the word wrapping functionality. Lightblue shows Soft
Return lines, darkgreen shows Hard Return lines.

Note that two different Color settings are accessible for the whole editor
(press ^OM).

The Syntax highlightning enabled checkbox disables all highlightning
functionality in the two listboxes. The Softreturn / Hardreturn (rightmost
column shows type of line) function is independent from this main checkbox
setting.

The first two Wordstar highlightning functions (Toggles, Highlightning toggles)
are dependent on the Toggle characters defined below (toggle chars). The
toggles itself are shown red and between two toggle characters, the text is
shown blue. You can also define special characters which are simply shown
colored (special chars). If you enter normal letters here, the function is
related to the corresponding Ctrl key, e.g. to enter ^B (Wordstar bold print),
simply enter a B capital letter.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 6.8. WS page ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


The "WS" page does not hold separately data for each file type. It stores
settings related to Wordstar/Write&Set file format and about the WSformat
program.

The dot command default groupbox stores the dot command default values which
are necessary to calulate the page breaks in files with file type "Wordstar
formatted". These values should be identical to the default values in the
WSformat settings notebook, page "Layout". Otherwise, the page breaks shown in
WSedit and previewed/printed by WSformat are not the same.

Full filename of WSformat executable: If you want to use the ^KF command "Save
file and run WSformat", WSedit has to know the filename of WSformat.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7. About WSedit ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


subchapters:
Freeware - Disclaimer
Why do I have written WSedit?
How this program help file was created
Bugs and Versions
How to contact the author
Other Freeware/Shareware


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.1. Freeware - Disclaimer ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


WSedit is Freeware. You are allowed to distribute this program on
Freeware/Shareware CD's, to place it on Internet Servers, to bundle it with new
Computers and so on. But all rights to the program remain with the author.

WSedit is provided as is and comes with no warranty of any kind, either
expressed or implied. In no event will the author be liable for any damages
resulting from the use of this software.

The full featured Wordprocessing suite Write&Set containing both WSedit and
WSformat is Shareware.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.2. Why do I have written WSedit? ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


I had got different reasons for writing WSedit.

     I do a lot of word processing and I like Wordstar. But today, a DOS
      program is no more acceptable. And I missed some functionality in
      Wordstar.

     For my Shareware program Hypermake, I need a powerful integrated editor.
      It is much more efficient to develop the editor as a separate project.
      Hypermake and WSedit shares a lot of program code. Fixing a bug in WSedit
      will fix the same bug in the Hypermake editor and reverse.

     The majority of editor code was already available in the program
      developing environment I use. So the amount of work was not as much as it
      looks like. The WSedit project is based on a programmers editor without
      wordwrap functionality which is part of the cross-platform Pascal
      developing environment "Sibyl". See http://www.speedsoft-online.de

     WSedit is an important part of the wordprocessing suite Write&Set. I
      think it is necessary to offer a non Winword-like wordprocessing software
      which is not "Tex". Too much users are frustrated with Winword and
      Winword-like programs.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.3. How this program help file was created ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


Hypermake is a hypertext compiler which compiles Write&Set (Wordstar 4) files
or ASCII files with dot commands and toggles to HTML, Winhelp, MS HTML-Help or
IBM Help. The source of this help file is a WS file with dot commands which can
be formatted and printed with Write&Set. You will find this source file in the
Write&Set archiv file, subdirectory DOCUSRC.

Hypermake has got a lot of dot commands similar to Write&Set, many are the
same. The commands for fonts, footnotes, line drawing, headings, index are
identical!

The Hypermake 4.0 editor does not yet have the ability of reading and writing
Wordstar 4/5 format, but it understands the majority of Wordstar Ctrl commands
(if you choose Wordstar in the popup menu of the Hypermake editor window). I
plan to implement WS reading/writing support in Hypermake 4.10.

Please visit http://www.WriteAndSet.com
http://www.hypermake.com


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.4. Bugs and Versions ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Bugs

Because auf continously problems with screen fonts in the Windows version and
my interest in publishing a Linux version, I plan to change the development
environment for WSedit. After changing, I hope not having problems with screen
fonts anymore. So you will select different screen fonts without problems.

Then, there are sometimes problems when typing an indented paragraph. These
problems cannot be reproduced, so I was not able to fix it.

Improvements, changes or bugfixes in WSedit 0.95 (May 2003)

     the WSedit search and search/replace dialog accepts printer characters
      (enter ^ and B or write a hash, followed by three digits for the ASCII
      decimal code)
     more communication between WSedit and WSformat


 Improvements, changes or bugfixes in WSedit 0.94 (March 2003)

     Communication between WSedit and WSformat to get part of Write&Set
     Menu bar (can be switched off, see menuitem Options)
     Alternate appearance of popup menu (see menuitem Options)
     "highlighted cursor": after a while with no cursor movement, the cursor
      is marked by a lightblue cross; pressing CTRL without another key forces
      the highlighted cursor immediately
     modified behaviour when starting WSedit without a file (see Settings
      notebook - page Save).


 Improvements, changes or bugfixes in WSedit 0.92 (November 2002)

     A great number of small bugfixes, not worth to mention all.
     ^OD "do not show toggles" is available now, but pressing any key will
      show the toggles again: You can't type while toggles are not shown. The
      old ^OD command (show translation window) has moved to ^OV.
     The cursor gets highlighted if WSedit is idle for a specific time. See
      Settings Notebook, page misc.
     If spell checking is enabled, ^L goes to the next marked (wrong) word.
     WSedit is adapted now for use together with WSformat. The look and feel
      is like a single program. E.g. pointing with the cursor to a font dot
      command in WSedit opens a font example window near the cursor which is
      drawn by WSformat. All documentation refering to communication between
      these two programs is hold in the WSformat documentation.


 Fixed bugs and improvements in WSedit 0.91 (June 2000)

     Improved reading of Wordstar 5, 6, 7 files (footnotes, style sheets)
     recording a macro which exits WSedit now possible
     in "popup menu - options", you can set the background and (default)
      foreground color for each file type


 Version 0.90 (March 2000) was the first version of WSedit, available only for
 OS/2.

 If you will get a window "error found at address..., Exit program Yes/No ?" or
 something like that, then press "no" for do not exit, save your file
 immediately, exit and restart WSedit. If you can reproduce this bug, please
 send me an E-Mail with a description of the bug.

 I will also publish a Linux version in the future.


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.5. How to contact the author ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ

Dr. Martin Vieregg, 37. I've studied economics. My main job is working in my
own consulting company  http://www.vr-transport.com . Our special subject is
public transport: railways and airports. The title of my doctoral (PhD) thesis
was "increasing efficiency of railway long-distance passenger traffic".

E-Mail: [e-mail]

Homepage:
http://www.hypermake.com
WSedit Homepage:
http://www.WriteAndSet.com


ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ 7.6. Other Freeware/Shareware ΓòÉΓòÉΓòÉ


I've written some other programs, Freeware and Shareware. Please visit my
Homepage

http://www.Hypermake.com

     Simple Zipshell (Freeware) Using the Info-Zip Freeware packer from the
      Windows 95/NT4 desktop
     Tiny Alarm (Freeware) A slider from 0 to 60 minutes, alarm and chime.
     cd-shortcut (Freeware) is a substitute for the "CD" command in the
      command line. It is sufficient to enter substrings.
     pmCalc (Shareware) is a pocket calculator with a separate input and
      output field and no "=" button: while editing your input, the output is
      actualized immediately. Calculating with variables, regression,
      programmers functions, scientific functions. Works together with WSedit
      (Clipboard and column block mode ^KN)
     Hypermake www.hypermake.de Hypertext builder (Shareware) let you generate
      Winhelp, HTML, IBM Help and MS HTML-Help from one source text. This Help
      file was generated by HyperMake. The integrated editor is very similar to
      WSedit and the Hypertext source file format is Wordstar-like with dot
      commands and toggles.


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