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ARead v1.0
(21.2.1998)
By Cliff Earl.
(cee@voyager.co.nz)
© 1998 Cliff Earl.
Introduction.
I only have a lowly 68000 in my old A2000. Now if I have a
little textfile that is only 1k or so in size, it seems to take
forever for multiview to load and display it. I created ARead
to rectify this problem.
If you double clicked the ARead.doc icon (the little itty
bitty one) straight from the distribution drawer and if you did
not notice already, ARead is being used to read this document
:^)
ARead as mentioned above is made for reading small textfiles
like aminet .readme files and file_id.diz files. A few things
to remember when using ARead are..
- ARead will load any sized file but will not display more
than 16000 lines.
- ARead will NOT wordwrap any lines in the textfile.
- ARead does not like lines of text that are longer than 254
characters. Strange behaviour may occur :^)
- ARead does not change tabs to spaces.
- ARead does not like multi coloured text (ANSI).
As you can see ARead is not such a powerful text reader, I
made it only to suit my own needs. If you think ARead has
potential and would like to see more options and features added
then please contact me with your requests. I am only too happy
to add things to ARead for you, you just have to let me know
what you want.
you want tabs-spaces?
you want search function?
you want wordwrap?
you want xpk support?
you want menus?
you want iconify?
you want a rexx port?
you want multicolour support?
you want filerequesters?
you want drag'n'drop?
what do you want?
I want a new Amiga :^)
Enjoy..
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Installing ARead.
- copy ARead to C: or somewhere in your path.
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Using ARead.
Before the real meat here are what key combo's do what things
when ARead is running..
CURSORUP..............previous line
CURSORDOWN............next line
SHIFT+CURSORUP........previous page
SHIFT+CURSORDOWN......nextpage
CONTROL+CURSORUP......first page
CONTROL+CURSORDOWN...last page
ESCAPE................quit
Using ARead from Workbench.
First change the default tool of the project you want ARead
to read on to C:ARead (or wherever you put it. Next add some
tooltypes to get ARead looking how you want it. You don't have
to add tooltypes if you want the default values. Here are the
tooltypes that ARead will understand.
FONTNAME
Name of the font that you want ARead to use when displaying
text. Default=topaz.font.
FONTSIZE
Height of the font you specified. Default=8.
LEFT
X-Position of ARead window. Default=0
TOP
Y-Position of ARead window. Default=16
WIDTH
Width of ARead window. Default=640
HEIGHT
Height of ARead window. Default=240
Using ARead from Shell/CLI.
I'm getting tired, so we will just put an example here..
ARead docs:aread.doc FONTNAME=xen.font FONTSIZE=11
Easy huh? The arguments that ARead can understand are
exactly the same as the tooltypes above, and the default values
are also the same.
If the font you specified is not available then ARead will
fallback on topaz.font which is always? available. If you
HATE topaz (like me) then you should get a program to change
topaz.font to any other fixed width font you like. I reccomend
TopazPatch if you don't have one. TopazPatch is also written
by me (plug, plug) and is very good. It comes (like no other)
with it's own GUI prefs program so you can change your topaz
settings whenever you like. Ahh, ain't I nice to you?
Okay so yeah I was gonna type some more text to bore you but
yeah it's time to crash :^)
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Legal Crap.
This program is FreeWare. You don't have to send money and
stuff but you can if you like. I take no responsability for
any damage caused to whatever by using the programs in this
distribution. You can give the program to any old human but
you are not allowed to charge money for it. Magazines are not
allowed to distribute the programs without prior permission of
the author (that's me) or they must send me a free copy of the
magazine/coverdisk that contains the programs.
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How To Contact Me.
You can send me stuff by post to..
Cliff Earl,
P.O Box 159,
Otaki,
Wellington 6471,
New Zealand.
You can EMail (suggestions, bug-reports, whatever) to..
cee@voyager.co.nz
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Credits.
- written and assembled with -
ASM-One v1.30
By T.F.A
no copyright?
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History.
v1.0 (21/2/1998)
- first public release