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- *** VIEW Version 12.1 October 1996 ***
- Recent history
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- VIEW Version 11.0
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- Added more functionality to the file selection menu. This has meant
- changing the functions of the Home and End keys. The keys are now:
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- Home - go to first file in current screen list
- End - go to last file in current screen list
- Ctrl-Home - go to first file in whole list
- Ctrl-End - go to last file in entire list.
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- In addition the up arrow now takes you to the previous screen when at the
- top of the current screen; the down arrow similarly tales you to the next
- screen when at the end of the current screen.
-
- These changes have meant that the F8 and F9 keys (select a file by name and
- by first letter) have been dropped. Apologies to you if you are used to
- using these, but they were incompatible with the new system. The new
- functionality should help to compensate for this loss.
-
- Added two toggles. To toggle speaker "beeps" (when an illegal key press is
- made, press s. VIEW starts with sound off. To toggle word wrap on/off
- when viewing a plain text file (ASCII or ANSI) press w. Note: the word
- wrap parameter stays in effect for viewing subsequent files until w is
- pressed again or F3 is pressed from the file selection menu.
-
- Text search strings can now be up to 80 characters.
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- VIEW Version 11.1
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- Improved support for code page 850.
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- VIEW Version 11.2
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- Improved identification of ASCII files with high-order characters. Added
- new command line switch /b This allows you to override the"break process"
- setting you have chosen from the configuration program. When break is
- configured to be on, pressing Esc interrupts the file read. With break
- off, the whole file is read before you can exit. The /b allows you to
- break out even when "break process: is configured as off.
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- VIEW Version 11.2a
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- Added a new command line switch /mono to force display to monochrome. This
- is useful for running VIEW on laptops or "palm" computers.
-
- Added Alt-F8 as alternative for "s" (toggle sound), Alt-F9 as alternative
- for "q" (toggle quick view from file selection menu), and Alt-F10 as
- alternative for "w" (toggle line wrap on/off when viewing an ASCII file).
- These additions are to accommodate possible variations in keyboards (e.g.
- "azerty" rather than "qwerty").
-
- VIEW Version 11.3
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-
- Added the ability to change the default drive to which temporary files are
- written (using the viewcfg program).
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- Changed VIEW so that if a text search string is listed on the command line,
- VIEW goes directly to the first occurrence of the string when a file is
- loaded.
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- VIEW Version 11.3a
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- Added a command line switch, /s, to override the default way in which VIEW
- looks for text in files when the search string is entered on the command
- line. The default is case insensitive. The /s switch makes it case
- sensitive.
-
- VIEW Version 11.3b
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- FOR WORDPERFECT DOCUMENTS ONLY: changed the way in which "strikeout" text
- is handled. By default, VIEW now omits this text. You can have it
- included by adding a new command line switch, /-, to override the default.
- If you use this switch, strikeout text will be shown in UPPER CASE LETTERS.
-
- VIEW Version 11.3c
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- Minor improvements to display of HTML accented characters.
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- VIEW Version 11.3d
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- Added a toggle - h - that allows you to switch between showing HTML files
- in decoded form or as pure ASCII (i.e., with the HTML tags displayed).
-
- Corrected a display problem that caused some text to remain at the right of
- the screen when exiting VIEW after you had used the /l switch with the
- number of columns used by VIEW less than the screen width.
-
- VIEW Version 11.4
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-
- Added ability to read XYWRITE files. To toggle between XYWRITE display and
- ASCII (and so show XYWRITE codes), press x while viewing a file.
-
- VIEW Version 11.5
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-
- Added ability to read Microsoft Publisher files. Improved positioning of
- cursor to help those using a voice synthesizer to read the display.
-
- NOTE: because of the complexity of Publisher files, VIEW may not read them
- all correctly. If you have one that does not display e-mail it to me
- (mdrury@nrcan.gc.ca) and I'll see what I can do.
-
- VIEW Version 11.6
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-
- Corrected display of XYWRITE files. The two previous versions were
- developed under a wrong assumption concerning the internal nature of line
- wrap in such files. This has meant that the x toggle (switch between
- XYWRITE and ASCII) is no longer appropriate.
-
- Added minimal support for Mac Word files. Not perfect, but you will be
- able to read them.
-
- Changed F4 (toggle text search off) to shift-F2 in order to free F4 for a
- new version of VIEW that will support continuous scrolling for
- visually-handicapped users who use a speech synthesizer. (Coming soon!)
-
- VIEW Version 12.0
- =================
-
- Improved "quick mode" (set by /q command line switch) so that if it is set
- on and a file is to be converted or printed directly, without being
- displayed, only the first 22 lines are written.
-
- Added a new feature for visually-impaired users. See the separate
- documentation file visual.doc
-
- VIEW Version 12.0a
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-
- Fixed broken "Home" function in scroll mode. Minor improvement to
- algorithm to detect "unknown format" files. Added option to view Word 6/7
- files called with /c or /C command line.
-
- VIEW Version 12.1
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-
- Added new function - "print using file's form feeds" (shift-F9). With this
- you can control where page breaks occur when printing. Form feeds are
- equivalent to embedded bookmarks, so to force a page break in the printed
- document just press Ins while viewing a file to insert a bookmark. Pure text
- files that contain form feed codes will also print with page breaks intact
- as they are converted internally by VIEW to bookmarks.
-
- Changed the configuration file so that you can now set the left margin
- indentation for printed files.
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