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- Sage v1.2
-
- Copyright (c) 1990-1991 Services Rendered All Rights Reserved
-
- What is it?
-
- Sage is a Windows application that displays gems of wisdom. You can adjust
- the fonts and colors of the quote messages, as well as add your own. The
- quote window is resizeable, and comes up where you last put it. Sage is ATM-
- compatible.
-
- Keywords: SAGE QUOTE WISDOM
-
- Getting Started Quickly
-
- The program SAGE.EXE and file SAGE.DAT should be put somewhere in your search
- path (typically C:\WINDOWS). Using the "Sage Options..." menu selection, you
- can add Sage to your WIN.INI file to automatically have it start when Windows
- does.
-
- Included in the package
-
- - SAGE.EXE, a Windows application
- - SAGE.DAT, the companion quotes text file
- - SAGE.WRI, these application notes
- - SAGE.DOC, a text-only version of this file (same as SAGE.WRI)
-
- Version Information and History
-
- 11/18/1990 Version 1.0 Initial release
- 11/25/1990 Version 1.1 Added more background color choices
- 01/01/1991 Version 1.2 "Find" will now find comment lines, memory
- access cleaned up, PostScript printer better
- supported, more foreground color choices, and
- even more quotes!
-
- Registration Considerations
-
- You have obtained an un-registered version of Sage which is being marketed
- under the "Shareware" concept. As such, it is a fully working version of the
- product, with complete documentation. In its unregistered state, Sage will
- display an informative message when it is first run. When you register the
- program with Services Rendered for $10, you will be free of the startup
- message and be entitled to 1/2 hour of software support.
-
- You may register the product by mail with a personal or business check. To
- order, select "Print Order Form..." from the Sage control menu. The order
- form is designed to be folded and mailed without an envelope, though you can
- choose to use one if you would prefer.
-
- Address:
- Services Rendered
- 455 14th. Street
- San Francisco, CA 94103
-
- By registering, you receive the following benefits:
-
- - Your registration code.
- - 1/2 hour of free technical support by the author.
- - Periodic notification of upgrades and enhancements.
- - No startup screen.
-
- You are authorized to make as many copies of the un-registered version of the
- product as you would like, and to distribute them freely to individuals or
- onto bulletin boards. You must, however abide by this one simple rule ...
- that you always include with such distribution all of the files that you have
- received.
-
- Upgrading from v1.1 to v1.2
-
- If you are a registered user of Sage v1.1, you will need to reenter your
- assigned registration code. Just follow the instructions in your original
- registration letter to validate version 1.2.
-
- Installing Sage
-
- Change to your \WINDOWS subdirectory and copy the zipfile SAGE11.ZIP to it.
- Type:
-
- PKUNZIP SAGE11
-
- to unpack the files to your system.
-
- Starting Sage the first time
-
- Select "File" from the Program Manager, then select "Run". Type "Sage" and
- select "OK".
-
- Adding Sage to the Program Manager
-
- With Sage running, move the mouse to the Sage system control and click once to
- see the command menu. Select "Sage Options...". Click once on the "Install
- Sage in Program Manager" button to install.
-
- Starting Sage from the Program Manager
-
- Double-click on the "Sage" icon in the Program Manager to start the program.
-
- Closing Sage
-
- You can type Esc (or choose "Close" from the command menu) to end the program.
-
- Starting Sage Automatically with Windows
-
- With Sage running, move the mouse to the Sage system control and click once to
- see the command menu. Select "Sage Options...". Click once on the "Start
- Sage automatically" button to automatically load Sage the next time you start
- Windows. The Sage window will reappear in the same place every time.
-
- Showing the Next or Previous Quote
-
- By pressing Enter or Backspace, you can display the next or previous quote.
-
- Finding Quotes
-
- You can find a specific quote, or all quotes that feature a specific word.
- Type Ctrl-F (or choose "Find..." from the command menu) and enter the word
- you'd like to find. Upper and lower case are ignored. You can find the next
- quote featuring the word by typing Ctrl-E (or choosing "Find Next" from the
- command menu.)
-
- Entering Your Own Quotes
-
- You can add your own gems of wisdom to the quote program by typing Ctrl-A (or
- choose "Add Quote..." from the command menu.) You can specify up to 1000
- characters of quote and byline information for each quote. If you want to put
- a carriage return in the middle of a quote or byline, type Ctrl-Enter to go to
- a new line. Long quotes may scroll off the window as you type them; this is
- normal.
-
- Copying Quotes to the Clipboard
-
- You can copy a relevant quote to the clipboard, and then to any document.
- When the quote you want to clip is displayed, type Ctrl-Insert (or choose
- "Copy" from the command menu.)
-
- Sage Options
-
- With Sage running, move the mouse to the Sage system control and click once to
- see the command menu. Select "Sage Options...". From the Sage Options
- dialog, you can set how many minutes must elapse before a new quote is
- displayed anywhere from 1 to 1440 minutes (1440 minutes is 24 hours between
- quotes.)
-
- PostScript Quotation Marks
-
- If you check the "PostScript Quotation Marks" checkbox, the quote will be
- surrounded in typographical quote marks instead of the generic vertical quote
- marks. PostScript fonts, created on-the-fly by ATM, have these special quote
- characters. If you see a black box, vertical bar or dots instead of quote
- marks with this option set, the font you've chosen does not contain the
- special quote characters. Uncheck the box.
-
- Typeface and Font Selection
-
- You can set the typeface used to display quotes and bylines, as well as the
- colors used in the window. Choose "OK" to make the changes take effect. You
- can choose any Windows font at any point size from 1 to 127. If you don't
- want the byline displayed, choose the same color for both the byline and the
- background.
-
- Quitting Sage
-
- You can quit Sage by choosing "Close" from it's command menu, or you can
- simply press "Esc".
-
- For Advanced Users: Setting the Quote File Path
-
- If you want to store the SAGE.DAT file away from the SAGE.EXE file, you can
- explicitly direct Sage to look for it somewhere else. Add a line to the
- SAGE.INI file that says:
-
- QuoteFile=C:\QUOTES\SAGE.DAT
-
- to cause Sage to look elsewhere.
-
- Text File Format
-
- If you want, you can add your own gems of wisdom manually. The quote text
- file SAGE.DAT is fully editable using any text editor, and can contain any
- number of quotes.
-
- Comment lines, which are never displayed, start with two slashes, like this:
-
- // This is a comment,
- // and this is another.
-
- Each quote has its own line, and looks like this:
-
- Neuroses are red,^Melancholia's blue.
- "Furious activity is no substitute for understanding." - H. H. Williams^In The Observer, 1866
-
- (If these examples are wrapping on your display, it is not intentional. They
- should each be on their own line.) Each Quote can be surrounded by quote marks
- (if you like.) The byline always starts with a space, a dash, and another
- space. If you need to have a dash in your text, put two in a row, like this:
-
- "A billion here, a billion there -- pretty soon it adds up to real money!"
-
- You can cause a new line to appear when the quote is displayed with the caret
- key (^). Both the quote and any byline can have carets.
-
- SAGE IS COPYRIGHT (c) 1990-1991 BY SERVICES RENDERED. IT IS DISTRIBUTED AS
- "SHAREWARE", I.E., YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO DISSEMINATE THE SOFTWARE FAR AND
- WIDE, PROVIDING IT IS DISTRIBUTED IN ITS ENTIRETY AND WITHOUT CHARGE, EXCEPT
- FOR MEDIA AND MAILING, IF APPLICABLE. I EXPRESSLY RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CHANGE
- THESE DISTRIBUTION RESTRICTIONS IN FUTURE VERSIONS. SAGE IS DISTRIBUTED
- WITHOUT WARRANTY, EITHER EXPRESSED OR IMPLIED, AND WITHOUT GUARANTEE AS TO ITS
- SUITABILITY FOR A PARTICULAR TASK. SAGE HAS BEEN TESTED AND PERFORMS ITS
- FUNCTIONS ESSENTIALLY AS DOCUMENTED, WITHOUT CAUSING ANY DAMAGE TO THE
- COMPUTER IN USE OR ANY OF ITS FILES. HOWEVER, ALL USERS ARE RESPONSIBLE FOR
- BACKING UP THEIR OWN FILES, AND SERVICES RENDERED ASSUMES NO RESPONSIBILITY
- FOR ANY DAMAGE OR LOSSES INCURRED AS A RESULT OF ITS USE.
-