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- About the HeadEdit 1.17 source code:
- ====================================
-
- This source was written in and compiles in the Turbo C 2.0 environment.
- It doesn't run too well in the environment, though. TC is too big.
-
-
- Credit to others:
- ----------------
-
- The SCREEN2.ASM file was lifted from the MSGED 2.0 source archive. It does
- direct screen writes regardless of screen length (TC's cprintf() chokes on
- anything over 25 lines).
-
- The swap routines are courtesy of TurboPower. This mention satisfies
- the license agreement for including them. They work good. I got them
- from Mike Ratledge in a file called MIKESWAP.ZIP; you might want to talk
- to him about it if you want a virgin copy.
-
- The window library I use came, originally, from Al Steven's book _Turbo
- C Memory-Resident Utilities, Screen I/O and Programming Techniques_ from
- MIS Press (excellent book). I've since screwed it up and added support
- for mouse and screen sizes other than 25x80; it's now my code more than
- his. But get the book, it'll at least get you started on trying to
- decipher the code (and undoubtedly teach you something). At least I
- still use most of the same variable and function names. :-)
-
- Everything else I did all by my itty-bitty self.
-
-
- Some general, rambling notes:
- ----------------------------
-
- If you spawn a program, be sure to do it through do_spawn(), which will
- save the screen on exit and restore it on return, as well as swap if
- enabled.
-
- Look at pmenu.c for a place to wedge in 'isolated' routines in an
- easy-to-get-to manner (as part of the pull-down menus). These routines
- need not be accessible via keystroke (gettin' kinda crowded in here,
- anyway).
-
- I've made no attempt to make it easy to interface to message base types
- other than the XBBS-style message base. The XBBS-style is faster and
- more economical than the *.MSG-style and is more secure than the
- Quick-style. It doesn't use a B-tree index file, but I just couldn't
- justify the space required by the index vs. speed gain. The law of
- diminishing returns seemed to apply.
-
- If you want to overlay HeadEdit (you probably should; it's pretty big),
- I suggest you only overlay the following modules (your mileage may
- vary):
-
- kmenu
- scanmess
- postmess
- carbomb
- cvrtstrg
- getstuff
- listpick
- lastread
- config
- edittext
- export
- movemess
- killjunk
- loadarea
- fndfarea
- notepad
- editor
- editor2
- select
- headlzss
- head2
- search
- printer
- pmenu
- editnode
- info
- mailin
- mailout
- dorcpt
- moderate
- makemgid
-
- About the built-in scanner/tosser: First, it works only for
- end-of-the-line point systems. Second, it doesn't do any dupe checking;
- just accepts anything addressed to it without further question. Finally,
- there are a few other limitations. It could, admittedly, use some work.
- So here's the source; get busy, and send code<tm>.
-
- The built-in editor is also kinda strange; just threw it in on a lark,
- don't use it myself. If you take the time to fix it up slick, send
- code<re-tm>.
-
-
- M. Kimes
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