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- Program Name: TEXT123.EXE
- Description : Text editor/print utility with "LOTUS-style" command
- line and functions.
- Author : Robert Keller
-
- TEXT123 is a versatile editor for text and other ASCII code files, which
- supports a full range of insert, delete, move, and copy functions. The print
- function is also supported. All system functions are executed from the file
- TEXT123.EXE. Written in assembly language, TEXT123 provides a powerful set of
- functions and extreme ease of use in a file compact enough to keep on your
- work disks.
-
- The TEXT123 editor was designed around a command menu and status/prompt
- structure that is remarkably similar in operation to that of the popular Lotus
- 1-2-3 program. If you are a Lotus user, you can probably just load TEXT123.EXE,
- press the slash (/) key to invoke the primary command menu, and be on your way
- to explore the functions of an editor that you already know how to use.
-
- TEXT123 uses most of the Function keys, and you can press F1 to call up a small
- window table that defines these uses. Other special keys, such as Ins, Del,
- PgUp, PgDn, Home, and End are also used by this editor. In its present version
- (10/84), TEXT123 will handle up to 840 lines of text.
-
- For those not familiar with the Lotus-style command structure, the system is
- really quite obvious if you will just use the right and left directional keys
- to move the block cursor along the command line. Notice the changing contents
- of the second line of the menu, which displays either the available secondary
- options or the direct action of the command highlighted by the block cursor.
- Options are selected only from the first line of the command menu, either by
- pressing the first letter of the option's name, or by moving the block cursor
- to the desired option and pressing [Return]. Either of these actions will move
- you down into the next level of command options, or, where appropriate, to a
- prompt requiring your input.
-
- All of the editor's functions may be observed from the hierarchy of command
- menus. When you have reached a command "dead end", one of the options will be
- to Quit, which will return you to a higher menu or to the Edit Mode. At any
- time during your travels through the command menus, you may press Escape to
- backstep to the previous menu. With enough Escape presses, you can backstep out
- of the Command Mode into the Edit Mode. Text entry and character/word editing
- is done while in the Edit Mode (see the mode block at the top of the screen).
-
- By exploring the command menus, you will observe that this is a range-oriented
- editor, with the line delete, insert, copy, and move functions being defined by
- a Range of lines. AftRange/Option is selected from the menus, the desired range
- may be identified with the use of the cursor keys, much the same as done in
- Lotus and other spreadsheet programs.
-
- Reviewed 11/12/84
- TAM
- ed wi