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- ADDITIONS TO NEW YORK WORK VERSION 2.3
-
- Directory listing mechanism (ALT F1).
- ------------------------------------
- Perhaps the most requested feature was the ability to view a directory
- from within NYW.
- If you invoke NYW from DOS without specifying a file name on the
- command line, NYW will ask you for the name of the file. If you press
- <ENTER>, NYW will show you the contents of your current directory. If you
- type a filename specifier (ie - something like "*.doc"), or the name of
- another subdirectory (ie - c:\letters), then NYW will display a listing of
- all matching files in the specified subdirectory.
- You can also bring up a directory from within your NYW editing session
- at any time. To do this, press the <ALT> <F1> key combination.
- When the directory listing has been brought up, you can browse through
- it by using the <UP>, <DOWN>, <PGUP>, and <PGDN> keys. As you move through
- the listing, you will see one file highlighted. To edit that file, press
- <ENTER> when the highlight is over that file name. To get out of the
- directory listing without editing another file, hit the <ESC> key.
-
-
- Saving without exiting.
- -----------------------
- You can now save a file to disk without exiting NYW. When you press the
- <CTRL D> key to exit, you will be prompted to save the file. After you have
- done so, NYW will ask you if you want to exit to DOS. Pressing 'Y' will ex-
- it, and pressing any other key will leave you back in your editing session.
-
-
- Word Counting.
- -------------
- We have added a new command to count the number of words in your
- document. This feature was requested by many of our customers who are also
- writers and journalists. To count the number of words in your current
- document, just press the <CTRL> N key. A message will appear on the status
- line which will tell you the number of words in the document.
-
-
- Expanded Keyboard Macro capabilities.
- -------------------------------------
- We have greatly expanded the capabilities of keystroke macros. Pressing
- the <CTRL F4> key combination brings up a menu of things you can do with
- keystroke macros.
- First you should be aware that there is the notion of the "current
- keystroke macro". This is the keystroke macro which you defined by pressing
- the <F4> key (and the one which will be played back when you press the <F3>
- key).
- When you press the <CTRL F4> key, a menu will appear which gives you
- the choice of Assigning, Clearing, Loading, and Saving a keystroke macro.
- Assigning a keystroke macro will take the current keystroke macro and as-
- sign it to another key. NYW will prompt you for that key; you can press any
- key except the <ESC> key. After that, any time you press that key, the
- keystroke macro will be replayed. You can also enter a new keystroke macro
- with the <F4> key without affecting the newly assigned macro.
- Clearing a keystroke macro will "disassociate" the assigned keyboard
- macro from the key you assigned it to. That key will then take on its old
- meaning. For instance, the <F1> key is the <DELETE LINE> command. You can
- assign a keystroke macro to the <F1> key, but then you will lose the
- capability to delete a line from your file. Clearing the keystroke macro
- from the <F1> key will re-enable the <DELETE LINE> function.
- You can Save a keystroke macro to disk to a file name of your choosing.
- In addition, you can Load a keystroke macro from disk into your current
- editing session.
-
-
- Pause in Keyboard Macro
- -----------------------
- When you are capturing keystrokes for a keyboard macro (by pressing the
- <F4> key), you can define a "pause" by pressing the <CTRL P> key at any
- time during the capturing. When you press <CTRL P>, NYW will ask you to
- enter a prompt. When you replay the keystrokes, and when NYW encounters the
- "pause", the replay process will halt and the prompt which you defined will
- appear on the status line. At that point, you should enter a response to
- the prompt and press <ENTER>. The response will be inserted in your
- document.
- As an example, let's say that you are defining a keyboard macro, and as
- part of that process, you want to enter the name of someone into your
- document. You would define the keystroke macro by pressing the <F4> key,
- and at the appropriate point, press <CTRL P>. NYW asks you to type your
- customizeable propmpt, so you type "Enter a name: ". Then, you continue
- defining the rest of the keystroke macro and press <F4> when you are done.
- When you replay the macro, NYW will replay the keys up to the point of
- the pause. Then NYW will display on the status line "Enter a name: ". You
- would then type a name, like "Marc Adler", and press <ENTER>. NYW will
- insert "Marc Adler" at the current position in your document, and will
- continue to replay the rest of the keystrokes.
- You can have as many pauses as you like within a keystroke macro. Using
- pauses is a perfect way to partially automate the process of repetitve data
- entry.
-
-
- Typewriter Mode
- ---------------
- Several users have requested the ability to use NYW in "typewriter
- mode". In this mode, every character that you type will be sent directly to
- the printer as you type it. When you hit the <ENTER> key, the printer will
- jump to the next line of paper. This mode is toggled on and off by pressing
- the <ALT> 8 key combination.
-
-
- New flags in DOS command line added.
- -----------------------------------
- -n will number lines at print time
- -f will disable formfeed and will cause printer to space out to end
- of page
- -t will enable typewriter mode
-
-
- New parameters added to WPPRMENU.
- --------------------------------
- "bp" - This gives an start-of-page sequence.
- "ep" - This gives an end-of-page sequence.
-
-
- Keyboard Speedup
- ----------------
- If you have an AT-class machine, then you can take advantage of the
- machines programmable typeamatic rate. There are two new parameters in the
- WPDEFAUL file. These parameters are :
-
- kr - keyboard typeamatic rate when a key is held down
- kd - delay until typeamatic takes effect
-
- In a normal computing environment, the rate is 12 and the delay is 1.
- To get maximum keyboard speedup, set both of these values to 0.
-
-
- Modifyable date format
- ----------------------
- The <ALT F2> key will bring up a screen which lets you modify the
- format which NYW uses to print out dates. This was added due to requests
- from our European users.
-
- The date format can be any sequence of characters with the numbers '1'
- through '5' interspersed. These numbers have the following special
- meanings:
-
- 1 - month name 2 - month number 3 - day
- 4 - year (4 digits) 5 - year (2 digits)
-
- When NYW prints the date, it will go through each character in the date
- format and will print out all characters which don't match the ones above
- as is. If it encounters the digits '1' through '5', it will print out the
- corresponding information.
- For instance, let's say that today's date in November 28, 1988. If your
- date format is "1 3, 4", NYW will print out the date as "November 28, 1988".
- If the date format is "2/3/5", NYW will print the date as "11/28/88".
-
-
- To Spool or Not to Spool
- ------------------------
- The <ALT F7> key will allow you to toggle the print spooler on and off.
- Many novice users of floppy disk systems couldn't understand why NYW would
- only print part of there documents. This was mainly due to the fact that
- NYW would try to write your entire file to a temporary spool file on disk,
- and while the keyboard was idle, attempt to print a character from the
- spool file. However, if the disk was near capacity, then NYW would only be
- able to write out part of the file to disk.
- To make things easier on novice users (a good portion of NYW's market),
- spooling was disabled by default. Turn on spooling only if you know what
- you're doing!
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