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- <****>"Usage"
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- Easy Guide
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- v 1.35 (c) 1997 Christopher Mulready
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- Copyright:-
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- May not be used for commercial purposes without my written permission
- ^^^^^^^
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- IMPORTANT!
- Make sure you have amigaguide.datatype in your datatypes (drawer)
- or multiview wont work it.
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- Easy Guide is I hope the easiest way to creat Amigaguide docs
- When you run Easy Guide you will be presented with an .asl file selector.
- just choose the text file you want to convert then choose the destination
- for your newly created guide, and hey presto! its done!! :-))
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- For any of you who do not get the asl.filerequester you can type from CLI
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- 1> easyguide Path:text.doc path:text.guide
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- Where Path:text.doc is the name of your text to be converted and
- Path:Text.guide is the path and the name of the guide to save as.
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- Just to show you how east it is.. when you quit from this text, run easyguide
- and convert this text file.
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- When you have done it you MUST!! read through this text file again
- and make sure you read all of this!! text and not the .guide version
- or you will get confused as this is just a demonstration for your benifit.
- and take note of the 2 markers below using the <*>.
- one has 4(begining) the other has 6 (end), always leave an empty line between
- the end and begining of a new section as below.
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- <******>
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- <****>"Preparing your doc"
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- Start your favorite text editor and load in your text.
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- All you do now is mark the begining and the end of each chapter in your text
- like so..
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- <******>
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- <****>"Demo Title"
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- The marker above with 4 starts * is the begining of your chapter and the title
- The title also is used as the name of your button in the Amigaguide.
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- The marker below with 6 stars * marks the end of the chapter
- notice that there are 4 * at the top and 6 * at the bottom, dont forget
- the < >
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- <******>
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- <****>"To sum up"
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- If you go back to the original text file you will notice markers made up
- from a combination of stars ** and < > with the title of the chapter
- inside The " " quotes.
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- Just seperate your sections or chapters with these markers and Easy Guide
- will do all the hard work.
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- <******>
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- <****>"Troubleshooting"
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- IMPORTANT!
- I have successfully tested Easyguide on an A1200 by formating a blank disk
- creating a libs(drawer) with the asl.library only! inside libs
- and Easyguide in the root directory.
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- Now booting from this disk into CLI I now type 1>easyguide
- The asl.filerequester appears and easyguide works! fine.
- Try this method before giving up! if this works then your asl.library on
- your sys: in not in your path or easy guide requires the asl.library V39+
- in which case you maybe only able to use it from CLI.
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- If you have any trouble using Easy Guide E-mail me at the address below.
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- E-mail: chris_mulready@nemesis.ie
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- Ph +353-1-8429248
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- Address
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- 88 Patrick Pearse Tower
- Ballymun
- Dublin 9
- Repubic of Ireland.
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- <******>
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- <****>"To do list"
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- What To Do Next!!
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- more bug testing!
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- Get rid of the empty guide button
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- And maybe some of your suggestions
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- E-mail: chris_mulready@nemesis.ie
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- Ph +353-1-8429248
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- Address
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- 88 Patrick Pearse Tower
- Ballymun
- Dublin 9
- Repubic of Ireland.
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- <******>
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- <****> "Bug Fix's v1.1 - v2.35 (silly! me)"
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- I made a seriouse boo in 1.1 onwards
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- I Had Easyguide reserve a BUFFER of 3meg!! WOW!! realy very bad!
- unless you had about 4mgs easyguide would not work for you.
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- Now it only needs a 100k buffer Phew! and will work fine
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- Easyguide works 100% with a minimal resouces
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- Example:
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- I have successfully tested Easyguide by formating a blank disk
- creating a libs(drawer) with the asl.library only! inside libs
- and Easyguide in the root directory.
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- Now booting from this disk into CLI I now type 1>easyguide
- The asl.filerequester appears and easyguide works! fine.
- Try this method before giving up! if this works then your asl.library on
- your sys: in not in your path or easy guide requires the asl.library V39+
- in which case you maybe only able to use it from CLI.
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- I got rid of that nasty! space that appeared in the title string.
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- alot of you were finding it hard to load converted amigaguide text in to
- multiview.
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- The only solution I could find was to ensure that you have the
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- Amigaguide.datatype
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- in your Datatypes (Drawer)
- Without it you get errors
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- tested with
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- asl.library V39.4
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- amigaguide.datatype V39.15
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- Please note the extra 4 * and <> and 6 * and<> and " " at the bottom
- include these for now
- Leave at least 1 empty line before each section.
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- <******>
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- <****>" "
- include this section in all your guides you may however delete this line only.
- <******>