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- *** ShowText v0.9 (August, 8th 1994) ***
- *** by Jean-Yves Oberlé ***
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- 0.Summary
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- 1.Introduction
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- 2.Starting ShowText
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- 2.1.Starting from the Workbench
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- 2.2.Starting from the Shell
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- 3.Error messages
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- 4.History
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- 5.Copyright
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- 1.Introduction
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- ShowText is a little utility which makes it possible to display
- ASCII files.
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- This program can only be run under Kickstart v2.04 or higher and
- uses the locale library if it exists. For the moment, only English and
- French are available.
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- 2.Starting ShowText
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- ShowText can either be started from the Workbench or from the Shell.
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- 2.1.Starting from the Workbench
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- Once ShowText has been started by clicking twice on its icon, it
- opens a file requester asking for a text to display. This text is dis-
- played on a screen opened by ShowText.
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- The following commands can then be used :
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- '2' or 'cursor down' : Move one line down
- '8' or 'cursor up' : Move one line up
- '3' or 'shift + cursor down' : Move one page down
- '9' or 'shift + cursor up' : Move one page up
- '7' : Goto top of text
- '1' : Goto end of text
- 'a' : Print all file
- 'p' : Print page
- 's' : Stop printing
- 'h' or 'Help' : Display help page
- 'Esc' or 'q' : Quit
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- 2.2.Starting from the Shell
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- The syntax is in this case :
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- ShowText [<text>] [REQ], where :
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- <text> is the name of the ASCII file,
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- REQ tells ShowText to display a possible error message in a re-
- quester and not in the Shell window.
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- 3.Error messages
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- ShowText can display the following error messages :
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- "Can't open intuition library v37" :
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- The intuition library version 37 (or higher) is not available.
- You should use a more recent Kickstart version (at least 2.04).
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- "Can't open dos library v37" :
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- The dos library version 37 (or higher) is not available. You
- should use a more recent Kickstart version (at least 2.04).
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- "Can't open asl library v37" :
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- The asl library version 37 (or higher) is not available. You
- should use a more recent Workbench version (at least 2.04).
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- "Can't open console device" :
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- There isn't enough memory to open the console device. Try to
- free some by closing some applications or windows.
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- "Can't open printer device" :
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- The printer device cannot be opened because another application
- is printing now.
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- "Can't open a screen" :
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- There isn't enough chip memory to open a screen. Try to close
- some screens and windows and retry.
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- "Can't open a window" :
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- There isn't enough chip memory to open a window. Try to close
- some screens and windows and retry.
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- "Out of memory" :
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- ShowText needs more memory. Try to free some by closing some ap-
- plications or windows.
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- "Can't read file" :
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- The chosen file cannot be read. This might be caused by a non-
- existent file name, a disk removed too quickly from the drive, a
- lack of memory, ...
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- "Error while printing" :
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- An error occured while ShowText was printing the text (lack of
- memory, printer ran out of paper, ...).
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- 4.History
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- 08.08.94 : first released version (0.9) of ShowText.
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- 5.Copyright
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- ShowText is a freeware. This means that it is copyright by Jean-Yves
- Oberlé but it may be freely distributed.
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- No guarantee of any kind is given that the program is reliable. The
- author cannot be made responsible for any damage which is caused by
- the use of his program.
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- For any suggestions, bug reports, ... you can write to the author :
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- Jean-Yves Oberlé
- 14, rue Christine de Saxe
- 67170 Brumath
- France
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