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- PPMore 1.71 User Manual
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- March 4, 1991
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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 more money for it than a nominal fee for copying. If
- you want to distribute this program you should keep this document with it.
- This program cannot be used for commercial purposes without written permission
- from the author.
- 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:
-
- Nico François
- Corbielaan 13
- B-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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- 4. Using PPMore from other programs
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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 10K 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 one of the main
- features of this program. PowerPacker is available as shareware (up to
- version 2.3b) or as a commercial program (from version 3.0a). Order a copy
- from your local UGA distributor or directly from UGA, P.O.Box 881, 3700 AW
- Zeist, The Netherlands. The commercial version offers several enhancements
- like 40 to 50 times faster crunching and overlay crunching.
-
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- 2. Usage
- ========
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- PPMore can be used in four 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 [<options>] [<file|dir>]
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- The program will then load the ascii file and display it. If the file
- was crunched using PowerPacker 2.0 or higher PPMore will first decrunch it
- for you. If the file was encrypted you will be prompted for the password.
- The options are explained in section 4.
- PPMore can be made resident so it doesn't have to be loaded every time
- you use it, use the ARP ARes command or the c: Resident command for this.
- You can't make PPMore resident when it is crunched !! The file is supplied
- as an uncrunched command file with the pure bit set.
- If you enter PPMore without options, you will be presented with either a
- file prompt or a filerequester (if arp.library or asl.library is available).
- Entering PPMore with a directory instead of a file as an argument will also
- get you a requester, but it will be positioned in the directory you specified.
- Enter 'PPMore ?' for a little usage message.
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- - 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
- (or the ARP filerequester) 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 !)
- - Once you are in PPMore press 'L' to load a new file, this is
- especially useful if the arp.library is available.
-
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- 3. Control
- ==========
-
- 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.
-
- - 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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- 4. Using PPMore from other programs
- ===================================
-
- If you are not a programmer you can skip this section.
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- PPMore has two power options to make it possible to use it from other
- programs. This way you don't have to include a text displayer in your
- programs, you just execute PPMore with one (or all) of the following options:
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- -@mem,len,flags[,name]
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- If you specify this option PPMore will not load a file but instead it
- will display a chunk of memory. You specify the memory addres and
- length in the command line as well as some flags. The current version
- only has one flag: PPMORE_FREEMEM = bit 0 of the flag-word = 0x1.
- When this flag is set PPMore will free the memory after it has
- finished, if it isn't set PPMore will just exit and leave the memory
- alone. This way your program can start PPMore with the PPMORE_FREEMEM
- flag set and exit before PPMore has ended. PPMore will then free the
- memory instead of your program.
-