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- !Twin version 1.00, 07 May 1990 © 1990 Joe Abley
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- !Twin launches the Twin programmers editor from the desktop. The advantages
- to using twin in preference to !Edit in this manner are that:
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- (a) Twin is faster,
- (b) Twin only takes up 38k, and !Twin 16k,
- (c) Twin is much nicer anyway!
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- IMPORTANT NOTE
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- When Twin is run from within !Twin (confusing, isn't it?), all that happens
- is that the Wimp is sent a Wimp_StartTask call with "Twin" (sometimes
- with some parameters), and hence there needs to be a copy of Twin in a
- convenient library somewhere (e.g. net:$.ArthurLib.Twin or
- adfs::4.$.Library.Twin). Alternatively, if you have converted your copy of
- twin to TwinInAModule, simply place this module in the !Twin application
- directory and remove the comment from the relavent line in the !Run file.
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- Technical details over, this is how you use it:
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- 1. On running, !Twin will set alias$@RunType_FFF to Twin %*0, i.e. it makes
- the run action of text files to load twin and edit them. Hence if you don't
- want to drag things around, you can quit the !Twin desktop bit (and save
- 16k); merely double-click on text icons to twin them.
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- 2. When run, !Twin will install itself on the icon bar, as a strange black
- square thing. I can't do proper meaningful icons, hence the surreal medieval
- death symbol. You can:
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- (a) drag things onto the icon from a filer window
- (b) drag things onto the icon from another application
- (c) examine the groovey menu and the info window
- (d) click adjust or select on the icon to start twin without
- a file name (i.e. equivilent of *twin without parameters)
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- 3. Important bit!
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- To quit from twin, do return language (shift-f4) followed by loads of
- returns, as per normal. If you press f1 followed by *quit, it won't. Quit, I
- mean.
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- 4. To save the file you are editing, it is probably best to press f3
- followed by Copy (to give you the previous filename). This avoids having to
- mess about sticking full pathnames at the top of all your files.
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- Contact me at:
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- 224 Castle Road,
- Bedford,
- MK40 3UA.
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- email:
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- "/G=Joe/S=Abley/O=Bedford School"@gb.gold-400.interspan
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