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- Viewer 2.0
- A Desk Accessory for reading and copying from large files.
-
- Copyright © Steven R. Costenoble, 1987
- Copyright © THINK Technologies, Inc., 1986
- Certain portions of this software are copyrighted by THINK
- Technologies, Inc.
-
- Viewer is a desk accessory designed to make it easy to deal with
- large text files, particularly ones larger than 32K. I wrote it
- to help read large text downloads from bulletin boards. It presents any
- text file in a window, with both horizontal and vertical scroll bars to
- allow movement through the file in the usual way. Text may be selected
- for copying to the clipboard, using the standard text selection techniques.
- Copying occurs when you select Copy from an application's Edit menu, or
- when you type Command-C. Automatic scrolling is not implemented in
- this version.
-
- When first started, Viewer asks for a file to show you, via a
- standard GetFile dialog. When active, Viewer installs a menu to allow
- you to open a new file (closing the one that is open), set tab stops,
- and quit. You can also shut down the DA by clicking in the close box
- of its window.
-
- The position of the indicator in the vertical scroll bar represents
- the position in the file of the first character on the screen. It is
- calculated in percent, which may explain some strange behavior at times.
-
- Since Viewer was designed mainly to deal with long downloads of
- messages from bulletin boards, it does not wrap lines, and in fact
- truncates all lines at 255 characters. It is not useful for reading
- Macintosh style text files where each paragraph is one line.
-
- Viewer keeps in memory only that part of the file that you see
- on the screen, so there is no limit on the size of the file that you
- can view.
-
- Caveats:
-
- --You may select a block of text of any size to copy to the clipboard.
- Remember, though, that the clipboard was designed to hold small amounts
- of data. Be prepared for the copy to fail if you select a very large
- amount. The amount you can copy will usually depend on how much
- memory you have available.
-
- --Viewer was written and tested on a 512KE. It should work on most
- other configurations, but let me know if it does not. This version was
- written using LightspeedC, v2.11.
-
- Viewer is free. Let me know of any bugs, comments, or suggestions.
- I am S.COSTENOBLE on GEnie, and 73267,3674 on CompuServe (which I check
- into only irregularly). You can also reach me at the math department
- of Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 11550.
-