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ADDITIONS TO NEW YORK WORK VERSION 2.3
Directory listing mechanism (ALT F1).
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Perhaps the most requested feature was the ability to view a directory
from within NYW.
If you invoke NYW from DOS without specifying a file name on the
command line, NYW will ask you for the name of the file. If you press
<ENTER>, NYW will show you the contents of your current directory. If you
type a filename specifier (ie - something like "*.doc"), or the name of
another subdirectory (ie - c:\letters), then NYW will display a listing of
all matching files in the specified subdirectory.
You can also bring up a directory from within your NYW editing session
at any time. To do this, press the <ALT> <F1> key combination.
When the directory listing has been brought up, you can browse through
it by using the <UP>, <DOWN>, <PGUP>, and <PGDN> keys. As you move through
the listing, you will see one file highlighted. To edit that file, press
<ENTER> when the highlight is over that file name. To get out of the
directory listing without editing another file, hit the <ESC> key.
Saving without exiting.
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You can now save a file to disk without exiting NYW. When you press the
<CTRL D> key to exit, you will be prompted to save the file. After you have
done so, NYW will ask you if you want to exit to DOS. Pressing 'Y' will ex-
it, and pressing any other key will leave you back in your editing session.
Word Counting.
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We have added a new command to count the number of words in your
document. This feature was requested by many of our customers who are also
writers and journalists. To count the number of words in your current
document, just press the <CTRL> N key. A message will appear on the status
line which will tell you the number of words in the document.
Expanded Keyboard Macro capabilities.
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We have greatly expanded the capabilities of keystroke macros. Pressing
the <CTRL F4> key combination brings up a menu of things you can do with
keystroke macros.
First you should be aware that there is the notion of the "current
keystroke macro". This is the keystroke macro which you defined by pressing
the <F4> key (and the one which will be played back when you press the <F3>
key).
When you press the <CTRL F4> key, a menu will appear which gives you
the choice of Assigning, Clearing, Loading, and Saving a keystroke macro.
Assigning a keystroke macro will take the current keystroke macro and as-
sign it to another key. NYW will prompt you for that key; you can press any
key except the <ESC> key. After that, any time you press that key, the
keystroke macro will be replayed. You can also enter a new keystroke macro
with the <F4> key without affecting the newly assigned macro.
Clearing a keystroke macro will "disassociate" the assigned keyboard
macro from the key you assigned it to. That key will then take on its old
meaning. For instance, the <F1> key is the <DELETE LINE> command. You can
assign a keystroke macro to the <F1> key, but then you will lose the
capability to delete a line from your file. Clearing the keystroke macro
from the <F1> key will re-enable the <DELETE LINE> function.
You can Save a keystroke macro to disk to a file name of your choosing.
In addition, you can Load a keystroke macro from disk into your current
editing session.
Pause in Keyboard Macro
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When you are capturing keystrokes for a keyboard macro (by pressing the
<F4> key), you can define a "pause" by pressing the <CTRL P> key at any
time during the capturing. When you press <CTRL P>, NYW will ask you to
enter a prompt. When you replay the keystrokes, and when NYW encounters the
"pause", the replay process will halt and the prompt which you defined will
appear on the status line. At that point, you should enter a response to
the prompt and press <ENTER>. The response will be inserted in your
document.
As an example, let's say that you are defining a keyboard macro, and as
part of that process, you want to enter the name of someone into your
document. You would define the keystroke macro by pressing the <F4> key,
and at the appropriate point, press <CTRL P>. NYW asks you to type your
customizeable propmpt, so you type "Enter a name: ". Then, you continue
defining the rest of the keystroke macro and press <F4> when you are done.
When you replay the macro, NYW will replay the keys up to the point of
the pause. Then NYW will display on the status line "Enter a name: ". You
would then type a name, like "Marc Adler", and press <ENTER>. NYW will
insert "Marc Adler" at the current position in your document, and will
continue to replay the rest of the keystrokes.
You can have as many pauses as you like within a keystroke macro. Using
pauses is a perfect way to partially automate the process of repetitve data
entry.
Typewriter Mode
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Several users have requested the ability to use NYW in "typewriter
mode". In this mode, every character that you type will be sent directly to
the printer as you type it. When you hit the <ENTER> key, the printer will
jump to the next line of paper. This mode is toggled on and off by pressing
the <ALT> 8 key combination.
New flags in DOS command line added.
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-n will number lines at print time
-f will disable formfeed and will cause printer to space out to end
of page
-t will enable typewriter mode
New parameters added to WPPRMENU.
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"bp" - This gives an start-of-page sequence.
"ep" - This gives an end-of-page sequence.
Keyboard Speedup
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If you have an AT-class machine, then you can take advantage of the
machines programmable typeamatic rate. There are two new parameters in the
WPDEFAUL file. These parameters are :
kr - keyboard typeamatic rate when a key is held down
kd - delay until typeamatic takes effect
In a normal computing environment, the rate is 12 and the delay is 1.
To get maximum keyboard speedup, set both of these values to 0.
Modifyable date format
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The <ALT F2> key will bring up a screen which lets you modify the
format which NYW uses to print out dates. This was added due to requests
from our European users.
The date format can be any sequence of characters with the numbers '1'
through '5' interspersed. These numbers have the following special
meanings:
1 - month name 2 - month number 3 - day
4 - year (4 digits) 5 - year (2 digits)
When NYW prints the date, it will go through each character in the date
format and will print out all characters which don't match the ones above
as is. If it encounters the digits '1' through '5', it will print out the
corresponding information.
For instance, let's say that today's date in November 28, 1988. If your
date format is "1 3, 4", NYW will print out the date as "November 28, 1988".
If the date format is "2/3/5", NYW will print the date as "11/28/88".
To Spool or Not to Spool
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The <ALT F7> key will allow you to toggle the print spooler on and off.
Many novice users of floppy disk systems couldn't understand why NYW would
only print part of there documents. This was mainly due to the fact that
NYW would try to write your entire file to a temporary spool file on disk,
and while the keyboard was idle, attempt to print a character from the
spool file. However, if the disk was near capacity, then NYW would only be
able to write out part of the file to disk.
To make things easier on novice users (a good portion of NYW's market),
spooling was disabled by default. Turn on spooling only if you know what
you're doing!