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- PPMore 1.2 User Manual
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- Sep 9, 1989
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- Preface
- =======
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- This program is freeware, this means that you can copy it freely as long
- as you don't ask any money for it. If you want to distribute this program
- you should keep this document with it.
- If you have suggestions or remarks about this program, or if you find
- any bugs, please let me know.
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- Write to the following address:
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- Nico François
- Corbielaan 13
- 3060 Bertem BELGIUM
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- Contents
- ========
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- 1. An introduction
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- 2. Usage
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- 3. Control
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- 1. An introduction
- ==================
-
- This program was written to complement one of my other utilities,
- PowerPacker (a command and data cruncher). It is used to read normal ascii
- text files or text files crunched with PowerPacker. The program itself is
- about 6K long and when you know you save about 60% when you crunch a text
- file, you can see that this could save a lot of space on your disks.
- PPMore was written as a more replacement (as you could have guessed :-),
- so I tried to keep the keyboard commands the same as well as adding some new.
- There are two main differences between PPMore and More, PPMore uses gadgets
- and it always loads the complete file in memory (More only loads part of the
- file and will load the rest when needed). If you can live with these
- differences, you can replace More with PPMore anywhere you want.
- If you haven't got PowerPacker you are of course missing the main
- feature of this program. You can try to find it in your favourite public
- domain library or you can get it by writing to my address and adding $15 US
- (if you live in Europe), $20 US (if you live elsewhere). Send money in
- cash (bit risky though), by international money order or by EuroCheck (only
- in Belgian Francs (BF) !!!!) (Please don't send other checks). PowerPacker
- was also published in the July 89 issue of JumpDisk.
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- 2. Usage
- ========
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- PPMore can be used in three different ways.
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- - First of all via the CLI:
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- If you enter PPMore without arguments you will get a usage template.
- You use PPMore like this:
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- PPMore <filename>
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- The program will then load the ascii file and display it. If the file
- was crunched using PowerPacker 1.1 or higher PPMore will first decrunch it
- for you. If the file was encrypted you will be prompted for the password.
-
- - Via the WorkBench:
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- There are three different ways of using PPMore via the workbench: you
- can set the default tool of the (crunched) text file to 'PPMore', you can
- single click the PPMore icon and then double click the text file icon or you
- can double-click the PPMore icon and enter the filename in the string gadget
- you will be presented with.
- You set the default tool by single clicking the icon of the text file
- and selecting 'Info' from the workbench menu. You will get a window with
- several gadgets in it, click in the string gadget where it says 'Default
- tool' and enter ':ppmore'. PPMore should be in the root directory of your
- disk for this to work, if e.g. it's in the system directory you should enter
- ':system/ppmore'. Last of all select the 'Save' gadget.
-
- NOTE: - PPMore will add '.pp' to the filename when the file wasn't found.
- This is very useful in the WorkBench enviroment: you can make an
- icon for 'text.doc' but name the file 'text.doc.pp'. Now the
- WorkBench will show an icon with 'text.doc' as name, but if you
- doubleclick it 'text.doc.pp' will be displayed. (As long as there
- is no 'text.doc' file in the directory !)
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- 3. Control
- ==========
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- PPMore can be controlled by keyboard or by intuition gadgets. To get a
- summary of the keyboard commands press <HELP>, the function of the gadgets
- shouldn't be hard to understand.
- A few notes on printing:
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- - The printer.device has to be in the devs: directory for PPMore to be able
- to print, you should also have a correct system-configuration for your
- printer.
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- - You can continue to read the text when PPMore is printing (this IS a
- multitasking computer ! :-), you can't quit when printing is still in
- progress !
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- As always, I hope you find this program useful !
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- PROGRAM HISTORY:
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- *****************************************************************************
- VERSION 1.0
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- First release.
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- *****************************************************************************
- VERSION 1.1
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- '.pp' suffix added to filename when file not found, very useful in
- WorkBench enviroment.
- PPMore now also loads encrypted files. (PowerPacker 2.3a or higher)
-
- *****************************************************************************
- VERSION 1.2
-
- Rewritten some routines in assembler, results in a slightly faster
- and smaller PPMore.
- Keyboard input improved. Autorepeat of keys is ignored so you can keep
- on pressing <page down> without typing it 20 times ahead !
- Gadget input also improved, now handles repeat.
- PPMore now prompts for a filename when double-clicked from WorkBench.
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- *****************************************************************************
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- PPMore 1.2 written by Nico François (Yes, Nico is my first name :-)
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- (c) 1989 Nico François / Power Peak
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- //
- Thanks to \X/ Amiga for being the best computer ever !
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