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- short: Textread 1.11: Very fast text viewer
- type: text/show
- author: Martin Blom (lcs@lysator.liu.se)
- uploader: Martin Blom (lcs@lysator.liu.se)
-
-
- The first official release of Textread, 1.03, was released in November
- 1992, exactly two years ago. I wrote it for two reasons:
- 1) I wanted to learn how to code system friendly programs under Release 2
- 2) I didn't think PPMore's text routines were fast enough.
-
- Speed was the most important issue, memory had lower priority. This is
- still the case, even if I have replaced my own hardware-banging blitter
- routines with system calls (=slower), and have optimized memory usage.
- This new release does, although it has many new features, only use about
- 5500 bytes more when loaded into memory, and the executable file is only
- about 8800 bytes longer than 1.03.
-
- Textread was designed with "Amiga User Interface Style Guide" beside the
- keyboard, so I think you will feel comfortable with the layout.
-
- Textread requires V37 of the system libraries (Release 2.04).
-
- If found on your system, Textread will take advantage of asl.library V38,
- XPK and power- packer.library (V35). Powerpacker and Reqtools are no
- longer needed. Neither is V38 of asl.library.
-
- CHANGES:
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- Release 1.11
- ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯
- V38.64 V38 of asl.library is not needed anymore, v37 will
- do, but you loose the screenmode requester.
- (30.11.94)
-