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- CygnusEd Professional 3.5 ReadMe
- Late Breaking News and Manual Corrections
-
-
- Contents:
-
- o Obtaining Technical Support
-
- o Last-Minute Features, Changes, and Clarifications
- o User Manual Corrections
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- Obtaining Technical Support
-
- Whenever you call us for technical support, please have your CygnusEd
- Professional serial number, as well as the exact version number of the
- program (found by selecting the About... menu item under the Project menu
- in the screen of the CygnusEd Professional application) handy. Having this
- information available will allow us to better serve you.
-
- You can reach us at the phone number listed in your manual.
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- Last-Minute Features, Changes, and Clarifications
-
- We're sorry...we added a few new features to the CygnusEd Professional
- package after the user manual went to the printers. Listed in the next few
- sections are descriptions of these new features, as well as any changes and
- clarifications that need to be made. They include:
-
- o Important Notes for Workbench 1.3 Users
- o Notes For Floppy Disk Users
- o Notes About Auto-Save Files
- o Public Screen Requester Additions
- o Variable Number of Spaces After Punctuation
- o Special, Format ARexx Commands
- o Changes to ACTIVATE NEXT CED ARexx Command
- o New GETDIRNAME ARexx Command
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- Important Notes for Workbench 1.3 Users
-
-
- Use of req.library
-
- Due to a last minute difficulty in the ASL emulator library
- (asl13.library), the CED, RecoverCEDFiles, and MetaMac programs have been
- modified to use req.library's file requester ONLY UNDER Workbench 1.3.
- What this changes is the look of the file requester used in these programs.
-
- The syntax of the ARexx commands dealing with file loading or saving have
- not been changed.
-
- The version of req.library included is version 2.8, which is a patched
- version of req.library 2.7. The only difference between the two is that a
- library closing bug that would cause graphics.library to be closed twice
- and rexxsys.library to not be closed was fixed.
-
-
- Search history
-
- Also, search history will not work under Workbench 1.3 because the
- functionality to detect when the Up and Down Arrow keys are pressed when
- the cursor is in an input field is not supported.
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- Notes For Floppy Disk Users
-
- If you are editing files off of a floppy and have the auto-save feature
- turned on, please be warned that if you remove the floppy disk from the
- drive during th editing of the file, anytime you open a new file over it,
- clear the file, save the file, or quit the program, CED may display a
- requester asking for you to put the disk back in the drive. This is
- required in order to remove any auto-save (.auts) files still on the disk.
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- Notes About Auto-Save Files
-
- If, when you try to load in a file, an auto-save file exists for it and you
- decide to load in the auto-save file, the Changes indicator will be set to
- 1 rather than 0. This is done to protect you from exiting CED without
- saving the auto-saved version.
-
- However, if you decide not to load in the auto-save file, CED will delete
- the auto-save file without warning when you exit from that file or when CED
- next does an auto-save on that file, which is probably not what you want.
-
- In both cases, exiting from that file will cause CED to delete the
- auto-save file.
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- Public Screen Requester Additions
-
- After selecting a public screen to open CED on, you can now press the
- Return key to accept the choice. This is in addition to the OK button.
-
- In order for a screen to show up in CED's list of public screens, the
- public screen must be at least 640 by 200, which is why some public
- screens, such as ADPro's, don't show up in the list.
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- Variable Number of Spaces After Punctuation
-
- A new command called "Post period spaces..." has been added to the Special,
- Format menu subitems. When selected, it will display a numeric requester,
- from which the user can specify the number of space characters to add after
- end-of-sentence (period, question mark, exclamation mark) punctuation and
- the color character. You can now specify 0 through 10 spaces after these
- characters. This addition to the program was added due to the large
- response we received from our users.
-
- In addition to this new menu command, an equivalent ARexx command has been
- added. It is as follows:
-
-
- POST PERIOD SPACES
-
- Syntax: POST PERIOD SPACES (1)
- POST PERIOD SPACES s (2)
-
- The first form will display the numeric requester, from which you may enter
- a new number of spaces.
-
- The second form will set the number of spaces to the given value (s).
-
- The operation returns RESULT = 1 if a valid number is given, RESULT = 0 if
- an invalid number is given or if the user cancels the requester.
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- Special, Format ARexx Commands
-
- The following ARexx commands were inadvertedly left out of the manual:
-
-
- WITH FILL
-
- Syntax: WITH FILL (1)
-
- This command will reformat the current paragraph using full (both left and
- right) justification.
-
- The operation always returns RESULT = 1.
-
-
- WITHOUT FILL
-
- Syntax: WITHOUT FILL (1)
-
- This command will reformat the current paragraph using left justification.
-
- The operation always returns RESULT = 1.
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- Changes to ACTIVATE NEXT CED ARexx Command
-
- If there are multiple copies of CED running, issuing the ACTIVATE NEXT CED
- via ARexx will return the ARexx port name of this next copy of CED in the
- RESULT variable. Otherwise, RESULT will be set to 0.
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- New GETDIRNAME ARexx Command
-
- The following ARexx command was added at the last minute:
-
-
- GETDIRNAME
-
- Syntax: GETDIRNAME (1)
- GETDIRNAME defaultdir (2)
- GETDIRNAME defaultdir title (3)
-
- The first form displays a directory requester from which a directory can be
- selected. No default directory is given.
-
- The second form displays a directory requester with the contents of the
- given `defaultdir' directory shown.
-
- The third form displays a directory requester with the contents of the
- given `defaultdir' directory shown and the text `title' in the requester's
- title bar.
-
- If a directory was selected, RESULT = selected directory. Otherwise,
- RESULT = blank or "RESULT".
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- User Manual Corrections
-
- p. 11 [Within Section 1.9.1, Documentation Conventions]
- The phrase, "(with a space between the two keys)", should be
- removed.
-
- p. 16 [Within Section 2.1.1, Input Fields]
- The word "either" should be removed from the sentence beginning
- "Input fields are areas within windows that either have a ...".
-
- p.153 [Within Section 9.2, ARexx Command Reference]
- The second form of the "INSTALL DOS/AREXX COMMAND" command should
- not have a double quote (") after the number.
-
- p.158 [Within Section 9.2, ARexx Command Reference]
- The second form of the "LL" command should not have the slash
- between the line and column parameters.
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