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- VR3a - A Vertical Text Reader for the Psion S3a
- Version 1.00, January 1994
- Copyright (c) 1994 Robert Boucher
- <boucher@asimov.ocunix.on.ca>
- <boucher@sofkin.ca>
-
- 1. Installation.
-
- a. Create a toplevel directory called "\VR3A" and "\TXT"
- VR3A will contain VR specific files, for now this is
- only for the vertical fonts. TXT is where the
- text files to be read should go.
- b. Copy "*.FON" files into "\VR3A".
- c. Copy VR3A.OPA to the "\APP" directory
- d. Install the application via Psion-I
- e. Thats it!
-
-
- 2. Text files.
-
- Copy the text files to be read in "\TXT". If the extension is
- something other than ".TXT", the file will not show up in the VR3A
- file list.
-
-
- 3. Usage.
-
- See the file VR3A.DOC. Many kudos to Gilles Kohl to allow me
- to use his documentation.
-
-
- 4. Feedback
-
- If you use this application, please drop me a note. Bug reports (with
- fixes) and suggestions should be addressed to me. Any comments are
- welcome. I follow the traffic in comp.sys.psion.
-
-
- 5. Registration and License
-
- There are no registration required for this application, however, if
- you do wish to contribute something, you can donate at least $10 to
- Project Gutenberg. You can contact them at <dircompg@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
- for details on how this can be done. Project Gutenberg was initiated
- by Prof. Michael S. Hart. Their goal is to make a maximum of free
- electronic texts available to everybody (see VR3A.DOC for their FTP
- site).
-
- This program is released under the GNU General Public License,
- Version 2, a copy of which should be in this directory under
- the name LICENSE.GPL.
-
- The routine named PARSE$:() is copyrighted by Mark Esposito,
- Pelican Software, it is available on the Psion FTP archive.
-
-
- 6. Acknowledgements.
-
- Gilles Kohl <100114.3146@compuserve.com> develops and maintains the
- vertical reader 'VR' for the HP95LX/HP100LX palmtops. VR3a attempts
- to mimic his implementation (with permission) as best as it can under
- OPL. Only the look-and-feel was borrowed - the implementation is
- completely new. He also allowed me to use his vertical fonts and his
- documentation.
-
- The VR3A icon was created from one of the icons from the utility
- "IconBox" version 1.00 from Right Hand Software Ltd and the text was
- added with Roger Burton-West's <ubte30e@ucl.ac.uk> EIKON
- v0.94 icon editor
-
- 7. TO DOs.
-
- 1. Dynamic configuration - especially for customizing font
- availability
- 2. Support for Proportional Fonts
- 3. ***Speed improvements***
- 4. Replace MENU and DIALOGs with vertical ones so you do not
- have to flip the Psion all the time.
-