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- Welcome to Blackbeard/2. We hope you will enjoy using the high performance
- easy to use editor, Blackbeard/2. In addition to Blackbeard/2 your diskette
- contains several useful programs and files. The following is a brief
- description of these programs.
-
- BB2MAN.CMD will generate the Blackbeard/2 documentation into a file called
- BB2.DOC.
-
- S2GMAN.EXE is the documentation generator. SGMAN.DOC explains how to use the
- generator to generate the Blackbeard/2 manual.
-
- The current language files is for C. Contributions are welcomed for these
- languages, or any other you may use, e.g., Pascal, BASIC.
-
- If you are an OEM, e.g., a compiler developer, we are very interested in having
- you include Blackbeard with your product. We are also interested in developing
- customized versions of Blackbeard to meet your specific product requirements.
- Please contact us so that we may mutually benefit from each other expertise.
- We are very flexible in our working arrangements, and understand the dynamic
- nature of the personal computer software market.
-
- About version 1.10 +
-
- This version includes all known bug fixes, and contains several major
- enhancements.
-
- 1. MACROS. The Macro facility has been completely rewritten to support long
- names for macros and more sophisticated read/write storage. This facility
- although new to Blackbeard/2 has been thoroughly tested for several
- months in other products.
-
- 2. HELP. The Help facility has been completely rewritten to support a
- hypertext stlye of exploration. The speed of search has been accomplished by
- using a B+ tree index file. The actual contents of the help file have been
- substantially revised as well.
-
- 3. COMPILE/REVIEW. Cleaned up, and tested. Some memory saving tricks used.
- Works well with Compilers generating standard error output and the grep
- program.
-
- 4. LANGUAGE TEMPLATES. The language templates have been significantly
- improved to support duplication and optional symbols. A function to insert
- the first language symbol directly is also available.
-
- 5. KEY BINDING. Blackbeard/2 now supports multi level key binding.
- Notice that Alt-L is a meta-key for the language template functions. Although
- multi-level binding is not available at the user level yet (available real soon
- now), this enhancement will make enhancement installation easier. More
- importantly, key binding is now available inside Blackbeard/2 directly.
- The Blackbeard compiler is gone.
-
- 6. LOG. The Captain's Log is a remarkable addition that provides the ability
- to undo file changes, even across editing sessions. The log has been tested
- since version 1.03 of Captain Blackbeard. It is very stable, although only
- minimal error checking is currently performed. If logging is always left on,
- it works completely transparently. Just clean up the logging directories once
- in a while.
-
- As always, we appreciate your support and hope you enjoy using the program.
- Please report any difficulties, or suggestions. Farewell!