EDITPAD README ****************** Contents ======== 1. What is EditPad? 2. Do I need to pay for EditPad? 3. Where can I find the latest information on EditPad? How can I contact the author? 4. How do I install EditPad? 5. How do I uninstall EditPad? 6. Some applications still use NotePad instead of EditPad. Why? Can I change this? 7. I sell freeware/shareware CD-ROMs. Can I put a copy of EditPad on them? 1. What is EditPad? =================== EditPad is a replacement for the standard Windows NotePad. EditPad requires Windows 95 or later to run. No additional DLLs or whatever are required. It has some very interesting features: * EditPad can open as many files at a time as you want. * You change between the open files by clicking on their tabs. No hassle with heaps of overlapping windows. * If you run EditPad again when there is already an instance running, the file(s) you wish to edit will be opened by the existing EditPad window. This means there will be at most one EditPad window open, which will save you from a lot of task switching. * If you do need more instances, simply pick View|New editor from the menu. * If you wish, the EditPad window stays on top of all other windows * Block functions: Save parts of your text to disk Insert a file in the current text * Specify many print settings: font, margins, headers/footers, line spacing, etc. * Reopen menu that lists the last 16 files opened. * Configure the open and save dialog file filters. * ANSI <=> OEM (DOS ASCII) conversion. * MAPI support. * Easy and working installation and uninstallation (see below). * It's almost free! (see below) * ... 2. Do I need to pay for EditPad? ================================ EditPad is copyright (C) 1996-1998, by Jan Goyvaerts. The software (EditPad) is provided "as is". In no event shall I, the author, be liable for any consequential, special, incidental or indirect damages of any kind arising out of the delivery, performance or use of this software. This software has been written with great care but I do not warrant that the software is error free. You may not attempt to reverse compile, modify, translate or disassemble the software in whole or in part. You may freely give copies of EditPad to others, as long as the software is unmodified. You may not change a single bit, you may not exclude any files or add any to the package and you may not make EditPad part of another package. You may not charge any money for the copying and/or distribution of EditPad, also not for EditPad itself. EditPad is postcardware. You are allowed to install EditPad and to try it out for a short while (a week or two), but if you want to continue using it you must "pay" by sending the author a nice postcard to the address shown below. The postcard should be from your home town so I can see how far EditPad spreads. If your town is too small to have postcards, send one form your province, state or country. Electronic postcards and the like are not accepted. You have to send a real one through snail-mail. I collect them. Postcards also have pretty pictures on them. An oversized business-card is not a postcard. After your postcard has arrived, you are allowed to use EditPad for as long and as much as you want, without any other cost. You also have the right then to update your copy of EditPad when new versions come out. If you mention you email address on the postcard, I will send you a message when I receive your postcard. Please note that this "payment" is strictly personal. Everyone who uses EditPad has to register, even if someone else installed it on your computer or if you found it on some CD-ROM you bought. (You paid for the CD, not for EditPad.) Even if you use EditPad (but you'd rather not) because your boss wants you to, you have to send a postcard. Even if EditPad seems to be a simple application, writing it was not a very easy task. So if you like it, send me a nice postcard. If everyone would say "thank you" when someone else did or said something nice, this world would be a much better place. If you feel that EditPad is definitively worth some money, feel free to put your postcard in an envelope and include a few dollars (or your local currency). Send your postcards to this address: Jan Goyvaerts Lerrekensstraat 5 2220 Heist-op-den-Berg Belgium 3. Where can I find the latest information on EditPad? How can I contact the author? ====================================================== Feel free to visit my home page at http://www.ping.be/jg/ to gather the latest news on EditPad. If you wish to receive an email message when a new version of EditPad comes out, feel free to subscribe to my mailing list by filling out the form on my home page. You can contact me (the author) by sending email to jg@ping.be Please note that, even if EditPad is available in many languages, I only understand Dutch (Nederlands) and English, so write in one of these languages. I can also read German (Deutsch) and French (Français), but the reply will be in English. 4. How do I install EditPad? ============================ Simply put a copy of EditPad.exe on your hard disk somewhere (e.g.: c:\Program Files) and run it. A dialog box displaying the license agreement will pop up. Read the entire text carefully. If you agree with it, check the little box below and click on the button below. If you do not agree with it, click on the button below to terminate EditPad. If you agreed, you will see the EditPad window with an empty text opened, named "Untitled". Don't bother about it, just pick Options|Configure from the menu. A small dialog box will pop up. Check the options you like and click on OK. Here's a little more information on the options: * Default program for text files: Launch EditPad whenever you double-click on a .txt file in the Windows Explorer. * Use EditPad icon: Display EditPad's icon next to .txt files in the Windows Explorer. * In Send To menu: Put a shortcut to EditPad in the Send To menu. Then you can right-click on any file in the Explorer and pick EditPad from the Send To menu to edit the file with EditPad. * Icon on Desktop: Put a shortcut to EditPad on your desktop. * Icon in Start Menu: Put a shortcut to EditPad in the Start Menu (menu that appears when you hit the Start button). * Icon in Programs menu: Put a shortcut to EditPad in the Programs menu of the Start Menu. That's all there is to it. If you change your mind later about which options you like, simply repeat the above procedure. If you wish to replace the version of EditPad you have currently installed with a newer one, simply replace the old EditPad.exe on your hard disk with the new one. No other actions are necessary. 5. How do I uninstall EditPad? ============================== There should never be any reason to do so. If you wish to update EditPad to the latest version, simply replace the old EditPad.exe on your hard disk with the new one. However, uninstalling EditPad is an easy thing to do. Run EditPad and pick Options|Configure from the menu. Click on the Uninstall button in the dialog box that pops up. This will remove all shortcuts that EditPad installed and will also clean any information stored in the registry by EditPad. Close EditPad and delete EditPad.exe from your hard disk. RIP. 6. Some applications still use NotePad instead of EditPad. Why? Can I change this? ========================================================== These applications execute NotePad directly, instead of running the program associated to text files. You can fix this by renaming EditPad.exe to NotePad.exe and putting it in your Windows directory, overwriting the old NotePad.exe Then run the new NotePad.exe (EditPad), pick Options|Configure from the menu and click on OK to update the EditPad links to the new exe. If you wish to keep a copy of the old NotePad, do NOT rename NotePad.exe and then copy EditPad.exe to NotePad.exe as Windows will then update all the links pointing to the renamed NotePad, which defeats the purpose of overwriting NotePad with EditPad. Instead, make a copy of NotePad.exe to another folder and then OVERWRITE NotePad.exe with the renamed EditPad.exe 7. I sell freeware/shareware CD-ROMs. Can I put a copy of EditPad on them? ======================================= If you read this agreement carefully, you know you are not allowed to charge money for the distribution of EditPad. In other words: you can't put it on a CD that must be paid for. However, if you contact me (jg@ping.be) before putting EditPad on a CD I can give you permission to do so. This way you can also be sure that you are including the latest version of EditPad. You will also have to mention that the people who buy the CD, pay for the CD and not for EditPad. If they use it, they still have to "pay" by sending me a nice postcard. Though I cannot oblige you to do so, if you put EditPad on a CD-ROM, I would really like to receive a free copy of that CD.