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BREEZE Copyright (c) Kevin Solway, 1989-92 - UPDATES - (Since 1990) Version 2.1 - Added paragraph sorting - Added statistical analysis of columns of numbers. Version 2.2 - Improved dictionary. Increased number of words to 37,000. - Compressed BREEZE.EXE to about half its original size on disk. Version 3.0 - Added the text to .EXE file converter. - Improved dictionary. Increased number of words to 67,000. If you misspell a word the list of words you are prompted with to replace the misspelled word are now listed in order of similarity to the word you typed. I also improved the dictionary compression algorithm. - Added screen saver. - Frees-up a lot more memory when you shell out to DOS, making more memory available to your applications. - Double spacing can now be set from the print menu as well as from the page settings menu. Version 3.1 - Added print spooling. This does printing in the background while you get on with something else. You don't need to wait for printing to finish before you can start typing again. - Added mail merging (enabling you to print form letters). This includes the new program BRZMERGE.EXE which creates and maintains a database for use in mail merging. - Added auto reformatting option. Automatically reformats the text while you edit it. - Added the option to turn the screen saver on or off, and to save this in the configuration file. Fixed bug with screen-saver - it sometimes made characters blink on restoring the screen. - Executable files created with the text to .EXE converter now give you the option to pause after each page of printing, especially useful when printing to single sheets. The line editor used to input the search string now supports both insert and overwrite modes. A far greater range of colours are available in the resulting viewer program. Up to nineteen default colour combinations can be set at the time of creating the viewer program. In addition, users are given the option to select their favourite colour combination at the time of running the viewer program, A new program COLOURS.EXE is included, which displays all the colour options available, and how to access them. You are encouraged to distribute the program COLOURS.EXE with all the text viewer programs you create with BREEZE. When creating viewer programs you now have tho option to enable or disable permission for the user to send the contents to a disk file instead of to the printer. - Maximum size for text that can be made into an executable file is now 63,000 bytes (after automatic compression) instead of 61,000 bytes. - BREEZE used to write empty lines to get to the end of each page when printing, this is now achieved by sending genuine form feed instructions to the printer. - Added an option to print only the odd numbered pages or only the even numbered pages. This enables you to print on both sides of fanfold paper, book fashion, by printing all the odd numbered pages first, turning the paper around, and then printing all the even numbered pages (good conservation - set an example!). - Added a go-to-page function. - Added a restore line function. Lets you restore a line back to its original state, provided you have not left the line. - Added the option to print with proportional letter spacing or with micro-justification if your printer supports these functions. - Added the option to select a line spacing of 4 lines per inch or 5 lines per inch when printing. - When sorting you are now given a countdown, giving you a rough idea how long the sorting process will take. And you are now able to interrupt the process at any time by pressing the escape key. - Added automatic line and box drawing. - When marking blocks, the block now follows the position of the cursor until the end (or beginning) of the block is marked, or until a block operation is selected. - Auto screen save and auto save can now be set to any period up to 255 minutes. - Files can now be quickly selected from the directory window by pressing the first letter of the file. The highlight bar will immediately move to the first file or directory starting with that letter. Pressing the same letter again will move to subsequent files starting with the same letter. - Inserting and deleting columns can now be done with multiple columns for speed. Version 3.2 - Much faster sorting, especially noticeable on large files. Version 3.3 - Improved support for mono monitors. - Corrected faulty installation instructions in the file README.1ST - Improved BRZMERGE.EXE. You can now use the up and down arrows to move through the fields when editing them. Version 3.4 - Underlining has now been included as a text style option. Begin underlining with shift-F9 and end with shift-F10. The keys for boldfacing and italics have been moved to shift-F5 ... shift-F8 (ie, shift instead of Alt). - Improved line drawing facilities. The pen can now be lifted up and down, and there is also an eraser which can similarly be lifted up and down. - Bug fixes - autosave was not reset correctly if altered from the configuration menu rather than from the pull-down menu. - the dictionary was not read in correctly if there were blank lines at the end of the personal dictionary. - the spelling checker sometimes didn't work correctly when Breeze was executed from within another program, due to memory problems. This has now been fixed. - fixed problem with keys in BRZMERGE.EXE. When entering some capital letters unwanted functions could be triggered! - Escape codes for printer control can now be inserted directly into the document. This can be handy if your printer has some unusual features or printer codes not yet supported by BREEZE. For example, the character string p1 (that is, the escape character - #27, followed by the characters "p" and then "1") inserted into a document will select proportional letter spacing on a Star NX-1000 printer (this printer is supported). Note, you can insert the escape character (ascii character number 27) into your document with the Ctrl-Y feature. Version 3.5 - Finally fixed bug with speller - sometimes hung when run from inside another program! Version 3.6 - Added further support for those people familiar with Wordstar commands. For example, Ctrl-K-B for mark beginning of block and Ctrl-K-K to mark the end of the block, Ctrl-Q-F for find, etc. - Seek place marker is now Ctrl-Q-S instead of Ctrl-K. - Formatting commands now indent text to the left margin if necessary. After you have imported text (either by loading a file or by reading a file into the document as a block) you can then format it to the conform to the left margin set within BREEZE. - With insert mode set to ON the tab key now inserts spaces into the text. With insert mode set to OFF the tab key simply moves the cursor over the text. - Now autodetects date format for date stamp. Version 4.0 With version 4.0 BREEZE has undergone a significant overhaul. - Now enables multiple files in different windows. That is, a number of files can be held in memory simultaneously and you can switch rapidly between them. - Added a clipboard, so you can copy text to the clipboard and then paste it into another file. (This is simpler than copying a block of text to a temporary file, then loading another file, and then reading the temporary file into the new file as a block). The clipboard is especially useful when used in conjuction with multiple windows. - Improved mouse handling and support. - faster and more direct cursor movement. - from within the edit window the mouse buttons now have the following functions: - left button : block begin right button : block end double click left button : main menu double click right button : window list both buttons at same time : main help menu; - at other times pressing the left button is the same as pressing the return key, and pressing the right button is the same as pressing the escape key. - Further improved support for Wordstar keyboard commands, including Ctrl-K-1 and Ctrl-Q-1 (set and seek place marker), Ctrl-Q-L (restore line), Ctrl-K-T (toggle tab), and Ctrl-K-Q (quit, same as Alt-X). - Bug fixes - when the dictionary was loaded and you pressed F10 or Esc to bring up the main menu, sometimes unwanted characters would be written to the screen temporarily. - fixed a few problems which appeared when available memory was very low, including the problem with adding lines when insert mode off. - fixed the problem when reading in a block too large for memory - the truncated block was wrongly marked. - screensaver sometimes left a dot on. - An asterix on the status line now indicates whether the document has remained unchanged since it was loaded or last saved. - With the text find and replace feature, case sensitivity is now set from the main menu, along with the option to find whole words only or include partial words. - When loading a file, if the file does not exist on disk, you are now prompted whether you want to begin a new document with that name (rather than automatically beginning a new document). - The main menu now remembers all the previous highlight bar positions, and restores them when you bring up the menu. Version 4.1 - Corrected some spellings in the dictionary - When moving the cursor upwards the screen now starts to scroll before the cursor reaches the top of the screen, similar to downward scrolling. This enables you to see where you are going. - If no block is marked and you select to perform a readability analysis you will be prompted if you want to analyze the entire document. - Blocks can now be marked using whole line mode. That is, entire lines will automatically be selected regardless of the current cursor position in the line. This speeds up block marking considerably, which is especially useful for programmers. This feature is available from the configuration menu. The default block marking mode is for individual characters, or "streaming" mode. - Fixed problem when loading a file via the pick list and the current file was not saved. If the save option was chosen then the new file was loaded as an empty file. - Find and replace missed some replacements when searching for single characters. - The screen saver is now active in any window, and not just from the edit window. Version 4.2 - Programs created with the text to .EXE converter now give you the option not to send standard Epson printer control codes when printing the contents. Also, tabs are now correctly expanded into spaces when printing. - With some screen saving programs, when returning to BREEZE the characters on the screen would blink. This has now been fixed. Version 4.3 - Added support for a wider range of printers. - Fixed bug when a filename of all empty spaces was entered. - Fixed an obscure bug which occured when saving file names to the pick file after analyzing text. - Fixed the problem of an "a" being added to the beginning of a macro sequence when the recording was initiated from the main menu. - Fixed a minor bug when entering a file name as a command parameter and the file was not found. You would be asked rename the next loaded file when you wanted to save it. - Increased registration price to $50 to cover increased costs.