Y.I.K.E.S. Readme

Introduction
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YIKES stands for "Yes, I Kan Edit Stuff."  It was designed and built
by Alden Bates.

I liked the Editor which came with DOS.  It was small and simple, you
could edit text with it, and that was about it.  The Windows95 version
let you edit 9 files at a time.  Having used this editor for a while,
I realised that there were a few shortcomings it had (like the 9 file
limit) and that it ought to be reasonably easy to write something that
worked with the Windows GUI system instead of from inside a DOS window.

So I started with TurboPower's Orpheus controls library and started
coding.  YIKES was the result.

YIKES can edit text files and (to some degree) raw binary files.  I
have tried to keep it as close functionally to the DOS editor as
possible, although in some cases this wasn't easy.

Loading Files into YIKES
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There are several ways of doing this:
1) Using the File|Open menu item
  This is standard as in most Windows applications
2) Drag and Drop
  This is only good for Text Files at present.  It is not recommended
  you drag and drop binary files.
3) Command line
  From the DOS command line, you can invoke the editor using:
  yikes <filename.txt>
  Optional command line parameters:
  /R - open following files as read only
  /B - open following files as binary
  /N - open following files as non-read-only text
  (This requires YIKES' install directory to be in the DOS path)
4) File Associations
  To associate YIKES with a file type, hold down shift and right-click
  on the file.  Select "Open With...", select yikes in the list of
  applications and click the "always use this program to open this
  type of file" checkbox.  If yikes is not in the list, click the
  "Other" button and browse to find yikes.exe.
  

Installation
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If not using the automatic installation program, simply unzip the
files into a new directory and create a shortcut to yikes.exe.

Known Bugs
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On occasion when opening a large number of files, the buttons will
not organise themselves into lines properly.  Once a file is opened
or closed, they should reorganise.

When using WindowBlinds, the window position may not be restored
correctly when restarting YIKES.

Credits
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Main Program by Alden Bates.
Alden's Home Page is Tetrapyriarbus:
  http://tetrap.simplenet.com/
Orpheus controls by TurboPower:
  http://www.turbopower.com/
YIKES was built in Borland C++ Builder 3:
  http://www.borland.com/
Alpha/Beta testers: Jason Fraser, Nathan Roberts

The author should not be held responsible for loss of data resulting
from use of this program.

Distribution
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YIKES may be distributed free of charge only.  It may only be
distributed in the original zip file complete with all files.  YIKES
may not be distributed for profit unless you give me some.  So there.