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- ITEMS ADDED TO PC-OUTLINE SINCE THE DOCUMENTATION RELEASE.
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- ADDED IN VERSION 1.01:
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- 1) Fixed bugs related to the block move and copy commands. Doing a
- block move or copy to the very end of the most recently created
- outline element can cause your outline to be corrupted. The
- symptom is usually that garbage appears on the screen at the end
- of the affected outline element. If you try to move the cursor
- into the garbage, your machine will hang.
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- ADDED IN VERSION 1.02:
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- 1) DE-INSTALL - While using PC-OUTLINE in memory resident mode, you may
- deinstall it from memory by pressing Control-Backspace three times in
- a row from the main editing mode. If there were no memory resident
- programs loaded after PC-OUTLINE, you will recover all the memory
- that PC-OUTLINE was allocated. If you load any memory resident
- programs after PC-OUTLINE, the memory PC-OUTLINE occupied will be
- freed, but it will not be available for dos to use to run other
- programs in.
-
- Note: ONLY USE THE DEINSTALL COMMAND AFTER INVOKING PC-OUTLINE
- FROM THE DOS PROMPT AND ONLY AFTER YOU HAVE SAVED ALL OF
- YOUR OUTLINES. YOU MUST BE IN THE MAIN EDITING MODE OF
- PC-OUTLINE FOR THE DEINSTALL TO WORK (not the opening
- menu).
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 1.03:
-
- 1) The "Lose Changes" prompt now looks at all open windows. It used to
- only look at changes in the current window.
-
- 2) With the /K command parameter option you can force PC-OUTLINE to take
- its keys directly from the keyboard buffer without going through
- BIOS. This allows you to bypass keyboard enhancers.
-
- MAIN USE: If you have a whole bunch of keys redefined for your word
- processor and you don't want those key definitions for PC-OUTLINE,
- you can use the /K option and the keyboard enhancer will be active in
- your main program, but not when you invoke PC-OUTLINE. When you
- return back to your word processor, the keyboard enhancer will
- automatically be active again. It is likely you will only find use
- for this option when using PC-OUTLINE in its memory resident mode.
-
- For those of you following the progression of versions, all
- non-memory resident versions get their keys through BIOS. For the
- memory resident version, 1.00 and 1.01 got keys directly from
- keyboard buffer, 1.02 got keys through BIOS and 1.03 gives you the
- choice with /K (default through BIOS).
-
- 3) Fixed bugs relating to the Find and Replace command with:
- Ask Before Replacing = Yes and All Occurrences = Yes and a very
- particular type of outline structure. Also fixed a bug that
- causes the screen to scroll up and hang when the DEL key is
- pressed with the cursor positioned at the end of the first line
- of an outline element with text hidden and a long word following
- the cursor.
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 1.04:
-
- 1) A few small changes to make 1.03 work how it was supposed to.
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 1.05:
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- 1) DELETE OUTLINE ENTRY PROMPT: The delete outline entry command now
- contains a prompt that asks you to confirm whether you really want to
- delete the entire outline family. This was added in response to
- complaints that the ^D command was too dangerous. You could delete
- your whole outline with a single keystroke. If you do not want this
- prompt, then you can use the command parameter /P when first loading
- PC-OUTLINE and the prompt will be skipped. Note you could also
- define a macro for ^D to be ^DY (^D and then a Y to answer yes to the
- delete prompt).
-
- 2) SNOW ON MONITORS: The /T command parameter will fix a problem with
- snow on the screen that some monitors may have. On some IBM color
- graphics adapters, you may see a small amount of snow on the left
- edge of the screen. Using the /T command parameter should eliminate
- that. The problem also occurs on some Hercules clone video cards.
- If you have the IBM monochrome adapter, an EGA card, or a COMPAQ
- card, you should not need this option. Using the /T parameter has a
- slight disadvantage (so you should not use it unless you need it).
- With /T enabled, the on screen time and the CAPS and NUM indicators
- will only be updated whenever you press a key. Consequently, the
- time and the shift status may not be correct if you have not pressed
- a key for a while. Note: this option is not the same as video
- retrace in the ADVANCED CONFIGURATION menu. If you see snow on the
- screen, you should first make sure that this option is set to YES.
- Only if that does not fix the problem should you use /T. You may
- also want to use this option if you have a Hercules clone and you see
- unwanted background snow all the time.
-
- 3) LOW INTENSITY VIDEO: The /I command parameter will force PC-OUTLINE
- to use low intensity video instead of high intensity video (in
- response to users with a monochrome display).
-
- 4) SAME KEY INVOKE/DE-INVOKE: When using PC-OUTLINE in memory resident
- mode, the same key that you use to invoke PC-OUTLINE (the default is
- Control-Backslash, but you can change it using KEYSET.COM) will also
- exit PC-OUTLINE and return you back to your other application.
-
- 5) CORRECT TIME ON COMPATIBLES: A utility program called GOODCLK.COM is
- now included on the disk that will allow PC-OUTLINE to correctly
- display the time on some compatibles. To use it, just run it any
- time before loading PC-OUTLINE (preferably in your autoexec.bat
- file). It does not remain memory resident so you lose no memory by
- running it. All it does is set the BIOS time to be the same as the
- DOS time. PC-OUTLINE gets its time from BIOS (because it is so much
- quicker), but some compatibles with clock cards (AT&T, EPSON, ...)
- set the DOS time correctly on boot up, but not the BIOS time. You
- should not need this if you have an IBM or a COMPAQ.
-
- 6) Pressing the ESC key after hitting the menu key ("/") will now just
- cancel the menu key instead of asking you if you want to quit
- PC-OUTLINE.
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 1.06:
-
- 1) Few small changes to make memory resident version work with more
- programs.
-
- 2) Bug fixes in the key redefinition part of the program.