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- EDITPAD README
- ******************
-
- Contents
- ========
-
- 1. What is EditPad?
- 2. Do I need to pay for EditPad?
- 3. Where can I find the latest information on EditPad?
- How can I contact the author?
- 4. How do I install EditPad?
- 5. How do I uninstall EditPad?
- 6. Some applications still use NotePad instead of EditPad.
- Why? Can I change this?
- 7. I sell freeware/shareware CD-ROMs.
- Can I put a copy of EditPad on them?
-
-
-
- 1. What is EditPad?
- ===================
-
- EditPad is a replacement for the standard Windows NotePad.
- EditPad requires Windows 95 or later to run. No additional DLLs or
- whatever are required.
-
- It has some very interesting features:
- * EditPad can open as many files at a time as you want.
- * You change between the open files by clicking on their tabs.
- No hassle with heaps of overlapping windows.
- * If you run EditPad again when their is already an instance running,
- the file(s) you wish to edit will be opened by the existing EditPad
- window.
- This means there will be at most one EditPad window open,
- which will save you from a lot of task switching.
- * If you do need more instances, simply pick View|New editor
- from the menu.
- * If you wish, the EditPad window stays on top of all other windows
- * Block functions:
- Save parts of your text to disk
- Insert a file in the current text
- * Specify many print settings: font, margins, headers/footers,
- line spacing, etc.
- * Reopen menu that lists the last 16 files opened.
- * Configure the open and save dialog file filters.
- * ANSI <=> OEM (DOS ASCII) conversion.
- * MAPI support.
- * Easy and working installation and uninstallation (see below).
- * It's almost free! (see below)
- * ...
-
- EditPad is also available in several languages:
- Dansk, English, Franτais, Italiano, Nederlands, ...
- Visit http://www.tornado.be/~johnfg/ for the latest list.
-
-
-
- 2. Do I need to pay for EditPad?
- ================================
-
- EditPad is copyright (C) 1996,1997, by Jan Goyvaerts.
-
- The software (EditPad) is provided "as is". In no event shall I, the
- author, be liable for any consequential, special, incidental or
- indirect damages of any kind arising out of the delivery, performance
- or use of this software. This software has been written with great care
- but I do not warrant that the software is error free.
- You may not attempt to reverse compile, modify, translate or
- disassemble the software in whole or in part.
-
- You may freely give copies of EditPad to others, as long as the
- software is unmodified. You may not change a single bit,
- you may not exclude any files or add any to the package and you may not
- make EditPad part of another package.
- You may not charge any money for the copying and/or distribution of
- EditPad, also not for EditPad itself.
-
- EditPad is postcardware. You are allowed to install EditPad and to try
- it out for a short while (a week or two), but if you want to continue
- using it you must "pay" by sending the author a nice postcard to the
- address shown below.
- The postcard should be from your home town so I can see how far EditPad
- spreads. If your town is too small to have postcards, send one form
- your province, state or country.
- Electronic postcards and the like are not accepted. You have to send
- a real one through snail-mail. I collect them.
- Postcards also have pretty pictures on them. An oversized business-card
- is not a postcard.
-
- After your postcard has arrived, you are allowed to use EditPad for as
- long and as much as you want, without any other cost. You also have the
- right then to update your copy of EditPad when new versions come out.
- If you mention you email address on the postcard, I will send you a
- message when I receive your postcard.
-
- Please note that this "payment" is strictly personal. Everyone who uses
- EditPad has to register, even if someone else installed it on your
- computer or if you found it on some CD-ROM you bought. (You paid for
- the CD, not for EditPad.) Even if you use EditPad (but you'd rather
- not) because your boss wants you to, you have to send a postcard.
-
- Even if EditPad seems to be a simple application, writing it was not a
- very easy task. So if you like it, send me a nice postcard. If everyone
- would say "thank you" when someone else did or said something nice,
- this world would be a much better place.
-
- If you feel that EditPad is definitively worth some money, feel free to
- put your postcard in an envelope and include a few dollars (or your
- local currency).
-
- Send your postcards to this address:
-
- Jan Goyvaerts
- Lerrekensstraat 5
- 2220 Heist-op-den-Berg
- Belgium
-
-
-
- 3. Where can I find the latest information on EditPad?
- How can I contact the author?
- ======================================================
-
- Feel free to visit my home page at http://www.tornado.be/~johnfg/
- to gather the latest news on EditPad.
-
- If you wish to receive an email message when a new version of EditPad
- comes out, feel free to subscribe to my mailing list by filling out the
- form on my home page.
-
- You can contact me (the author) by sending email to johnfg@tornado.be
-
- Please note that, even if EditPad is available in many languages, I
- only
- understand Dutch (Nederlands) and English, so write in one of these
- languages. I can also read German (Deutsch) and French (Franτais),
- but the reply will be in English.
-
-
-
- 4. How do I install EditPad?
- ============================
-
- Simply put a copy of EditPad.exe on your hard disk somewhere
- (e.g.: c:\Program Files) and run it.
-
- A dialog box displaying the license agreement will pop up. Read the
- entire text
- carefully.
- If you agree with it, check the little box below and click on the
- button below.
- If you do not agree with it, click on the button below to terminate
- EditPad.
-
- If you agreed, you will see the EditPad window with an empty text
- opened, named "Untitled".
- Don't bother about it, just pick Options|Configure from the menu.
-
- A small dialog box will pop up. Check the options you like
- and click on OK.
-
- Here's a little more information on the options:
- * Default program for text files:
- Launch EditPad whenever you double-click on a .txt file
- in the Windows Explorer.
- * Use EditPad icon:
- Display EditPad's icon next to .txt files in the Windows
- Explorer.
- * In Send To menu:
- Put a shortcut to EditPad in the Send To menu.
- Then you can right-click on any file in the Explorer and pick
- EditPad from the Send To menu to edit the file with EditPad.
- * Icon on Desktop:
- Put a shortcut to EditPad on your desktop.
- * Icon in Start Menu:
- Put a shortcut to EditPad in the Start Menu
- (menu that appears when you hit the Start button).
- * Icon in Programs menu:
- Put a shortcut to EditPad in the Programs menu of the Start Menu.
-
- That's all there is to it.
-
- If you change your mind later about which options you like, simply
- repeat the above procedure.
-
- If you wish to replace the version of EditPad you have currently
- installed with a newer one, simply replace the old EditPad.exe on your
- hard disk with the new one. No other actions are necessary.
-
-
-
- 5. How do I uninstall EditPad?
- ==============================
-
- There should never be any reason to do so. If you wish to update
- EditPad to the latest version, simply replace the old EditPad.exe on
- your hard disk with the new one.
- However, uninstalling EditPad is an easy thing to do.
-
- Run EditPad and pick Options|Configure from the menu.
-
- Click on the Uninstall button in the dialog box that pops up. This
- will remove all shortcuts that EditPad installed and will also clean
- any information stored in the registry by EditPad.
-
- Close EditPad and delete EditPad.exe from your hard disk.
-
- RIP.
-
-
-
- 6. Some applications still use NotePad instead of EditPad.
- Why? Can I change this?
- ==========================================================
-
- These applications execute NotePad directly, instead of running the
- program associated to text files.
-
- You can fix this by renaming EditPad.exe to NotePad.exe and putting it
- in your Windows directory, overwriting the old NotePad.exe
- Then run the new NotePad.exe (EditPad), pick Options|Configure from the
- menu and click on OK to update the EditPad links to the new exe.
-
-
-
- 7. I sell freeware/shareware CD-ROMs.
- Can I put a copy of EditPad on them?
- =======================================
-
- If you read this agreement carefully, you know you are not allowed to
- charge money for the distribution of EditPad. In other words: you can't
- put it on a CD that must be paid for.
-
- However, if you contact me (johnfg@tornado.be) before putting EditPad
- on a CD I can give you permission to do so. This way you can also be
- sure that you are including the latest version of EditPad. You will
- also have to mention that the people who buy the CD, pay for the CD and
- not for EditPad. If they use it, they still have to "pay" by sending me
- a nice postcard.
-
- Though I cannot oblige you to do so, if you put EditPad on a CD-ROM, I
- would really like to receive a free copy of that CD.
-