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- FrontPub 1.1
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- Copyright © 1995 Gunther Nikl
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- All rights reserved
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- FrontPub is freeware
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- Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
- program's executable and documentation as you receive it, in any medium,
- provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish only the
- original, unmodified program, with all copyright notices and disclaimers of
- warranty intact and including all the accompanying documentation, example
- files and anything else that came with the original.
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- NO WARRANTY
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- There is no warranty for this software package. Although the author has
- tried to prevent errors, he can't guarantee that the software package
- described in this document is 100% reliable. You are therefore using this
- material at your own risk. The author cannot be made responsible for any
- damage which is caused by using this software package.
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- What is FrontPub?
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- FrontPub is a small utility that automatically declares the frontmost screen
- to the default public screen provided the frontmost is actually a public
- screen. Together with the global public screen mode 'SHANGHAI' enabled all
- windows that normally open on the workbench screen will now open on the new
- default public screen. (Because FrontPub would no be very useful with a
- disabled 'SHANGHAI'-mode, it will be switched on at program start). It uses
- a verticalblank-interrupt server to monitor Intuitions frontscreen. All other
- accesses and (possible) changes are done by the mainprogram. Currently FrontPub
- does not support any arguments.
- FrontPub should run on every Amiga equipped with at least V37 of the OS.
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- Features
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- - is a commodity, so it can be disabled/enabled/ended at any time
- - exits if CTRL-C was received
- - amount of needed cpu-time is negligible
- - pure, can be made resident (not very useful though)
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- Installation
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- If you want FrontPub to be started every time the system comes up, its
- recommended to copy it to the WBStartup-drawer so the workbench will load
- FrontPub automatically. Otherwise copy the program to a directory that is
- in the search path. Simple, isn't it?
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- Source
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- FrontPub was written in asm. Every assembler capable of handling includes
- should be useable for assembling the source. No special includes required
- (but LVO-definitions please).
- To see if its possible to create a similar small executable in C, I also
- wrote a c-version. The source for this version is for the "__saveds"
- part very gcc-specific. But it should compile with any other compiler with
- slightly changes. I used GCC 2.3.3 to compile (but any other version >2.3.3
- is also ok). The resulting executable is not much bigger than the asm-version,
- so shall I drop asm? :-)
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- History
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- 1.0 - 16/01/95 initial version
- (not released)
- 1.1 - 25/03/95 frontscreen check changed, much safer now
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- Author
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- The author can be reached at the following addresses:
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- gnikl@informatik.uni-rostock.de
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- or snailmail
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- Gunther Nikl
- Hans-Beimler-Strasse 17
- D-19370 Parchim
- Germany
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