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BREEZE Copyright (c) Kevin Solway, 1989-92
- UPDATES -
(Since 1990)
Version 2.1
- Added paragraph sorting
- Added statistical analysis of columns of numbers.
Version 2.2
- Improved dictionary. Increased number of words to 37,000.
- Compressed BREEZE.EXE to about half its original size on
disk.
Version 3.0
- Added the text to .EXE file converter.
- Improved dictionary. Increased number of words to 67,000.
If you misspell a word the list of words you are prompted
with to replace the misspelled word are now listed in
order of similarity to the word you typed. I also
improved the dictionary compression algorithm.
- Added screen saver.
- Frees-up a lot more memory when you shell out to DOS,
making more memory available to your applications.
- Double spacing can now be set from the print menu as well
as from the page settings menu.
Version 3.1
- Added print spooling. This does printing in the
background while you get on with something else. You
don't need to wait for printing to finish before you can
start typing again.
- Added mail merging (enabling you to print form letters).
This includes the new program BRZMERGE.EXE which creates
and maintains a database for use in mail merging.
- Added auto reformatting option. Automatically reformats
the text while you edit it.
- Added the option to turn the screen saver on or off, and
to save this in the configuration file. Fixed bug with
screen-saver - it sometimes made characters blink on
restoring the screen.
- Executable files created with the text to .EXE converter
now give you the option to pause after each page of
printing, especially useful when printing to single
sheets. The line editor used to input the search string
now supports both insert and overwrite modes. A far
greater range of colours are available in the resulting
viewer program. Up to nineteen default colour
combinations can be set at the time of creating the viewer
program. In addition, users are given the option to
select their favourite colour combination at the time of
running the viewer program, A new program COLOURS.EXE is
included, which displays all the colour options available,
and how to access them. You are encouraged to distribute
the program COLOURS.EXE with all the text viewer programs
you create with BREEZE. When creating viewer programs you
now have tho option to enable or disable permission for
the user to send the contents to a disk file instead of to
the printer.
- Maximum size for text that can be made into an executable
file is now 63,000 bytes (after automatic compression)
instead of 61,000 bytes.
- BREEZE used to write empty lines to get to the end of each
page when printing, this is now achieved by sending
genuine form feed instructions to the printer.
- Added an option to print only the odd numbered pages or
only the even numbered pages. This enables you to print
on both sides of fanfold paper, book fashion, by printing
all the odd numbered pages first, turning the paper
around, and then printing all the even numbered pages
(good conservation - set an example!).
- Added a go-to-page function.
- Added a restore line function. Lets you restore a line
back to its original state, provided you have not left
the line.
- Added the option to print with proportional letter spacing
or with micro-justification if your printer supports these
functions.
- Added the option to select a line spacing of 4 lines per
inch or 5 lines per inch when printing.
- When sorting you are now given a countdown, giving you a
rough idea how long the sorting process will take. And
you are now able to interrupt the process at any time by
pressing the escape key.
- Added automatic line and box drawing.
- When marking blocks, the block now follows the position of
the cursor until the end (or beginning) of the block is
marked, or until a block operation is selected.
- Auto screen save and auto save can now be set to any
period up to 255 minutes.
- Files can now be quickly selected from the directory
window by pressing the first letter of the file. The
highlight bar will immediately move to the first file
or directory starting with that letter. Pressing the
same letter again will move to subsequent files starting
with the same letter.
- Inserting and deleting columns can now be done with
multiple columns for speed.
Version 3.2
- Much faster sorting, especially noticeable on large files.
Version 3.3
- Improved support for mono monitors.
- Corrected faulty installation instructions in the
file README.1ST
- Improved BRZMERGE.EXE. You can now use the up and
down arrows to move through the fields when editing
them.
Version 3.4
- Underlining has now been included as a text style option.
Begin underlining with shift-F9 and end with shift-F10.
The keys for boldfacing and italics have been moved
to shift-F5 ... shift-F8 (ie, shift instead of Alt).
- Improved line drawing facilities. The pen can now be
lifted up and down, and there is also an eraser which can
similarly be lifted up and down.
- Bug fixes - autosave was not reset correctly if altered
from the configuration menu rather than from
the pull-down menu.
- the dictionary was not read in correctly if
there were blank lines at the end of the
personal dictionary.
- the spelling checker sometimes didn't work
correctly when Breeze was executed from within
another program, due to memory problems. This
has now been fixed.
- fixed problem with keys in BRZMERGE.EXE. When
entering some capital letters unwanted
functions could be triggered!
- Escape codes for printer control can now be inserted
directly into the document. This can be handy if your
printer has some unusual features or printer codes not yet
supported by BREEZE. For example, the character string
p1 (that is, the escape character - #27, followed by the
characters "p" and then "1") inserted into a document will
select proportional letter spacing on a Star NX-1000
printer (this printer is supported). Note, you can insert
the escape character (ascii character number 27) into your
document with the Ctrl-Y feature.
Version 3.5
- Finally fixed bug with speller - sometimes hung when run
from inside another program!
Version 3.6
- Added further support for those people familiar with
Wordstar commands. For example, Ctrl-K-B for mark
beginning of block and Ctrl-K-K to mark the end of the
block, Ctrl-Q-F for find, etc.
- Seek place marker is now Ctrl-Q-S instead of Ctrl-K.
- Formatting commands now indent text to the left margin if
necessary. After you have imported text (either by
loading a file or by reading a file into the document as a
block) you can then format it to the conform to the left
margin set within BREEZE.
- With insert mode set to ON the tab key now inserts spaces
into the text. With insert mode set to OFF the tab key
simply moves the cursor over the text.
- Now autodetects date format for date stamp.
Version 4.0
With version 4.0 BREEZE has undergone a significant
overhaul.
- Now enables multiple files in different windows. That is,
a number of files can be held in memory simultaneously and
you can switch rapidly between them.
- Added a clipboard, so you can copy text to the clipboard
and then paste it into another file. (This is simpler
than copying a block of text to a temporary file, then
loading another file, and then reading the temporary file
into the new file as a block). The clipboard is
especially useful when used in conjuction with multiple
windows.
- Improved mouse handling and support.
- faster and more direct cursor movement.
- from within the edit window the mouse buttons now have
the following functions:
- left button : block begin
right button : block end
double click left button : main menu
double click right button : window list
both buttons at same time : main help menu;
- at other times pressing the left button is the same as
pressing the return key, and pressing the right button
is the same as pressing the escape key.
- Further improved support for Wordstar keyboard commands,
including Ctrl-K-1 and Ctrl-Q-1 (set and seek place
marker), Ctrl-Q-L (restore line), Ctrl-K-T (toggle
tab), and Ctrl-K-Q (quit, same as Alt-X).
- Bug fixes - when the dictionary was loaded and you pressed
F10 or Esc to bring up the main menu,
sometimes unwanted characters would be written
to the screen temporarily.
- fixed a few problems which appeared when
available memory was very low, including the
problem with adding lines when insert mode
off.
- fixed the problem when reading in a block too
large for memory - the truncated block was
wrongly marked.
- screensaver sometimes left a dot on.
- An asterix on the status line now indicates whether the
document has remained unchanged since it was loaded or
last saved.
- With the text find and replace feature, case sensitivity
is now set from the main menu, along with the option to
find whole words only or include partial words.
- When loading a file, if the file does not exist on disk,
you are now prompted whether you want to begin a new
document with that name (rather than automatically
beginning a new document).
- The main menu now remembers all the previous highlight bar
positions, and restores them when you bring up the menu.
Version 4.1
- Corrected some spellings in the dictionary
- When moving the cursor upwards the screen now starts to
scroll before the cursor reaches the top of the screen,
similar to downward scrolling. This enables you to see
where you are going.
- If no block is marked and you select to perform a
readability analysis you will be prompted if you want to
analyze the entire document.
- Blocks can now be marked using whole line mode. That is,
entire lines will automatically be selected regardless of
the current cursor position in the line. This speeds up
block marking considerably, which is especially useful for
programmers. This feature is available from the
configuration menu. The default block marking mode is for
individual characters, or "streaming" mode.
- Fixed problem when loading a file via the pick list and
the current file was not saved. If the save option was
chosen then the new file was loaded as an empty file.
- Find and replace missed some replacements when searching
for single characters.
- The screen saver is now active in any window, and not just
from the edit window.
Version 4.2
- Programs created with the text to .EXE converter now give
you the option not to send standard Epson printer control
codes when printing the contents. This gives better
compatibility with laser printer. Also, tabs are now
correctly expanded into spaces when printing.
- With some screen saving programs, when returning to BREEZE
the characters on the screen would blink. This has now
been fixed.
Version 4.3
- Added support for a wider range of printers.
- Fixed bug when a filename of all empty spaces was entered.
- Fixed an obscure bug which occured when saving file names
to the pick file after analyzing text.
- Fixed the problem of an "a" being added to the beginning
of a macro sequence when the recording was initiated from
the main menu.
- Fixed a minor bug when entering a file name as a command
parameter and the file was not found. You would be asked
rename the next loaded file when you wanted to save it.
- Increased registration price to $45 to cover increased
costs, but decreased cost of upgrades from $20 to $10.
Version 4.4
- Fixed bug with screen saver and autosaver. Didn't work
correctly when adjusted to times greater than five minutes.
- Fixed problem with line not wrapping when a style character
was entered exactly on the right margin. If auto-
reformatting was on at the same time this could jam the
computer!
- Fixed bug when floppy disk not in drive and when Breeze
tries to read the disk directory, or when no matching
files found. Breeze would sometimes crash.
- The following improvements have been made to the text to
.EXE converter:
- Added option to remove special style codes when
printing text to a file from the executable.
- The executable programs created with Breeze will
now automatically detect whether the user has a
colour system. If not, then the default mono
pallette will be used, unless changed by the user
from the command line. This is a safety mechanism,
to prevent you from selecting colours when creating
the executable on a colour system which do not
show-up clearly when the program is run on a mono
system.
- Added ability to move to main menu selections in the
executable with a single keystroke. The main menu
is taken to be the first one to appear in the text.
Alt-0 : moves to main menu (the first one)
Alt-1..Alt9 : move directly to main menu picks.
- Added a help screen in the resulting executables.
Press F1. This should make the program easier to
use for beginners.
- Added option to print (or send to file) the screen
only, or the entire text from executable.
- Fixed paper feed control for laser printers. Would send
unnecessary blank pages.
- Fixed periodic screen flicker on VGA screens.
- Added support for the pound sterling symbol.
Version 4.5
- Added graphical print previewer for registered users.
- Improved time-sharing abilities for use on concurrent
systems.
- Added "Read manual" option in the files menu. This saves
you the trouble of exiting to DOS to run the manual
program.
- Made the "format paragraph" function available from the
options menu to reduce confusion for beginners.
- Fixed bug where sometimes when loading a file from the
pick list you were not returned to the correct line.
- Added extra words to the dictionary.
- Added option to have centred page numbers when printing.
Press return on the page no.s option in the print menu
to cycle between page numbering modes.
