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. 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 a few very interesting features: * EditPad can open as much 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 their 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. * Of course, if you do need more instances, simply pick View|New editor from the menu. * Block functions: Save parts of your text to disk Insert a file in the current text * Reopen menu that lists the last 16 files opened. * 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, 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. (There's only one file: EditPad.exe) You may not charge any money for the copying and/or distribution of EditPad. 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 register it with the author. You can register by sending a postcard to the address below. The postcard should either be from your home town (so I can see how far EditPad spreads) or a very funny or original one. 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. Please not that registration 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 payed 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 register. 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. 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.tornado.be/~johnfg/ to gather the latest news on EditPad. If you want to say something to me, write it on a postcard and mail it to the address above. You will be a registered user of EditPad then too. 4. How do I install EditPad? ============================ Simply put a copy of EditPad.exe on your hard disk somewhere (eg: c:\Program Files) and run it. A dialog box displaying this text will pop up. Read the entire text carefully (you're probably doing so right now). 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. 5. How do I uninstall EditPad? ============================== There should never be any reason to do so. However, it 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 popus 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. 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 payed for. However, if you contact me (johnfg@tornado.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 register by sending a postcard. Though I cannot oblige you to do so, if you put EditPad on a CD-ROM, I would really like to recieve a free copy of that CD. ******************