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- PC-Outline Version 3.34
- Copyright (C) 1986,87 Brown Bag Software, All Rights Reserved
-
- These are the files on this disk (Archive):
-
- PCO.EXE - executable file for running PC-Outline
- PCO.ECT - shareware screen file
- README.1 - the latest notes about PC-Outline not included in the manual
- README.2 - descriptions of the utility programs included on the disk
-
- GLOBAL.COM - utility program #1 (see README.2)
- CPY.COM - utility program #2 (see README.2)
- DIRS.COM - utility program #3 (see README.2)
- MOVE.COM - utility program #4 (see README.2)
- MEM.COM - utility program #5 (see README.2)
- BEEP.COM - utility program #6 (see README.2)
- PUSHDIR.COM - utility program #7 (see README.2)
- POPDIR.COM - utility program #8 (see README.2)
- MTCONV.EXE - utility progran #9 (see README.2)
-
- MANUAL.DOC - brief documentation in printable form
- PRINTDOC.BAT - a batch file that will print MANUAL.DOC to LPT1
-
- PCPRINT.COM - a program for changing printer drivers
- KEYSET.COM - a program for customizing the PC-Outline invoke key
-
- *.PCO - sample outlines covering many of PC-Outline's features.
- *.CFG - various printer drivers
-
- GOODCLK.COM - a program to make the time display in PC-Outline work
- correctly on some compatibles (AT&T, EPSON, and others).
- To use it, just run it in your autoexec.bat file (or any
- time before loading PC-Outline).
-
- Last minute notes about PC-Outline:
-
- A couple of the most recently added features of PC-Outline are as follows:
-
- 1) NEW WAY OF SPECIFYING WHERE THE CONFIGURATION FILE IS FOR USE ON
- A HARD DISK: Instead of using the /l=<configuration file/path
- name> as a command parameter option, you may put the command
- SET PCO=<configuration file/path name> in your autoexec.bat
- file. PC-Outline will first look in the current directory for
- the configuration file PCO.CFG. If it is not found there and
- there was no /l=..... command parameter, then PC-Outline will
- try the file/path set in the environment with the dos SET
- command. By using this feature, you can start PC-Outline from
- anywhere on your hard disk simply by pathing to the directory
- that contains PCO.EXE. PC-Outline will do the rest of the work,
- automatically finding its configuration files.
-
- 2) NEW /d COMMAND PARAMETER FOR CONTROLLING THE STARTING CURRENT
- DIRECTORY IN PC-Outline: The configuration file PCO.CFG
- (created from the ADVANCED CONFIGURATION menu) can contain a
- starting directory. If it does, then each time PC-Outline
- starts it will automatically start with that directory as the
- current directory for outline files. If it does not contain a
- starting directory, (the entry in the ADVANCED CONFIGURATION
- menu for starting directory is blank), then PC-Outline will use
- the current DOS directory as its starting directory. If you set
- a current directory in the above menu because you keep most of
- your outline files in one particular location, but sometimes you
- want to start up PC-Outline with a different directory, then you
- can log to the directory you want and type PCO.EXE /d. The /d
- will tell PC-Outline to ignore the starting directory set in the
- configuration file and use the DOS current directory.
-
- 3) PC-Outline now supports the creation of a printer substitution table
- allowing you to print graphics characters on some printers. Note:
- Graphics characters will print exactly as seen on the screen on an
- IBM printer. On epson printers and most other printers, however, you
- must do a little extra work to get some graphics characters to print
- correctly.
-
- For example, if you choose bullet numbering for your outlines, an
- epson printer will not correctly print the bullet. To fix this,
- create an ascii file named PCOPRN$.CFG and place the following line
- in it (this file exists on the PC-Outline system disk):
-
- char(254)=143
-
- The bullet character on screen is 254 and the epson printer character
- for a bullet is 143. This command tells PC-Outline that whenever it
- is about to print a character 254, print a 143 instead. You can
- place as many printer substitutions as you like. The string to
- substitute can be more than one character if desired. For example
- you could redefine the tilde character (~) to turn boldface on (for
- an epson printer) by inserting the following line.
-
- char('~')=27,'E'
-
- This would substitute ESC G for every occurence of a tilde character.
-
- Note that there are two ways to insert a value, by placing a
- character in single quotes ('D') or by entering the decimal
- representation for the ascii value of the character (123). Each
- entry must be separated by a comma. Following are some valid
- entries:
-
- char(132)='a'
- char('f')='ABC',32
- char(34)=255,'abc',27,'G'
-
- Any line in the file that begins with a semicolon will be ignored
- (useful for inserting comments). Lines in the substitution file may
- be no longer than 80 characters. To continue a line on the next
- line, end the line with a plus sign. For example:
-
- char('~')='ABCEFGHIJKLMNOP',+
- 'QRSTUVWXYZ'
-
- This command would print the entire alphabet everytime the tilde
- ('~') was encountered in a file.
-
- PC-Outline will look for the file PCOPRN$.CFG in the same directory
- as the configuration file. If you have not used either the
- l=<filename> command parameter or the SET PCO=<filename> command to
- specify where the configuration file is located, then PC-Outline will
- just look for PCOPRN$.CFG in the current directory.
-
-
- ITEMS ADDED TO PC-Outline SINCE THE DOCUMENTATION RELEASE.
- ----------------------------------------------------------
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 1.02:
-
- 1) DE-INSTALL - While using PC-Outline in memory resident mode, you may
- deinstall it from memory by pressing Control-Backspace three times in
- a row from the main editing mode. If there were no memory resident
- programs loaded after PC-Outline, you will recover all the memory
- that PC-Outline was allocated. If you load any memory resident
- programs after PC-Outline, the memory PC-Outline occupied will be
- freed, but it will not be available for dos to use to run other
- programs in.
-
- Note: ONLY USE THE DEINSTALL COMMAND AFTER INVOKING PC-Outline
- FROM THE DOS PROMPT AND ONLY AFTER YOU HAVE SAVED ALL OF
- YOUR OUTLINES. YOU MUST BE IN THE MAIN EDITING MODE OF
- PC-Outline FOR THE DEINSTALL TO WORK (not the opening
- menu).
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 1.03:
-
- 1) The "Lose Changes" prompt now looks at all open windows. It used to
- only look at changes in the current window.
-
- 2) With the /K command parameter option you can force PC-Outline to take
- its keys directly from the keyboard buffer without going through
- BIOS. This allows you to bypass keyboard enhancers.
-
- MAIN USE: If you have a whole bunch of keys redefined for your word
- processor and you don't want those key definitions for PC-Outline,
- you can use the /K option and the keyboard enhancer will be active in
- your main program, but not when you invoke PC-Outline. When you
- return back to your word processor, the keyboard enhancer will
- automatically be active again. It is likely you will only find use
- for this option when using PC-Outline in its memory resident mode.
-
- For those of you following the progression of versions, all
- non-memory resident versions get their keys through BIOS. For the
- memory resident version, 1.00 and 1.01 got keys directly from
- keyboard buffer, 1.02 got keys through BIOS and 1.03 gives you the
- choice with /K (default through BIOS).
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 1.04:
-
- 1) A few small changes to make 1.03 work how it was supposed to.
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 1.05:
-
- 1) DELETE OUTLINE ENTRY PROMPT: The delete outline entry command now
- contains a prompt that asks you to confirm whether you really want to
- delete the entire outline family. This was added in response to
- complaints that the ^D command was too dangerous. You could delete
- your whole outline with a single keystroke. If you do not want this
- prompt, then you can use the command parameter /P when first loading
- PC-Outline and the prompt will be skipped. Note you could also
- define a macro for ^D to be ^DY (^D and then a Y to answer yes to the
- delete prompt).
-
- 2) SNOW ON MONITORS: The /T command parameter will fix a problem with
- snow on the screen that some monitors may have. On some IBM color
- graphics adapters, you may see a small amount of snow on the left
- edge of the screen. Using the /T command parameter should eliminate
- that. The problem also occurs on some Hercules clone video cards.
- If you have the IBM monochrome adapter, an EGA card, or a COMPAQ
- card, you should not need this option. Using the /T parameter has a
- slight disadvantage (so you should not use it unless you need it).
- With /T enabled, the on screen time and the CAPS and NUM indicators
- will only be updated whenever you press a key. Consequently, the
- time and the shift status may not be correct if you have not pressed
- a key for a while. Note: this option is not the same as video
- retrace in the ADVANCED CONFIGURATION menu. If you see snow on the
- screen, you should first make sure that this option is set to YES.
- Only if that does not fix the problem should you use /T. You may
- also want to use this option if you have a Hercules clone and you see
- unwanted background snow all the time.
-
- 3) LOW INTENSITY VIDEO: The /I command parameter will force PC-Outline
- to use low intensity video instead of high intensity video (in
- response to users with a monochrome display).
-
- 4) SAME KEY INVOKE/DE-INVOKE: When using PC-Outline in memory resident
- mode, the same key that you use to invoke PC-Outline (the default is
- Control-Backslash, but you can change it using KEYSET.COM) will also
- exit PC-Outline and return you back to your other application.
-
- 5) CORRECT TIME ON COMPATIBLES: A utility program called GOODCLK.COM is
- now included on the disk that will allow PC-Outline to correctly
- display the time on some compatibles. To use it, just run it any
- time before loading PC-Outline (preferably in your autoexec.bat
- file). It does not remain memory resident so you lose no memory by
- running it. All it does is set the BIOS time to be the same as the
- DOS time. PC-Outline gets its time from BIOS (because it is so much
- quicker), but some compatibles with clock cards (AT&T, EPSON, ...)
- set the DOS time correctly on boot up, but not the BIOS time. You
- should not need this if you have an IBM or a COMPAQ.
-
- 6) Pressing the ESC key after hitting the menu key ("/") will now just
- cancel the menu key instead of asking you if you want to quit
- PC-Outline.
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 1.06:
-
- 1) A few small changes to make the memory resident version work with
- more programs.
-
- 2) Bug fixes in the key re-definition part of the program.
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 1.07:
-
- 1) Small bug fixes relating to hiding and unhiding text.
-
- 2) New shareware policy (on the opening shareware screen).
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 1.08:
-
- 1) You can now set all 8 levels of numbering in the Global
- Outline Style menu. Also fixed some problems with
- getting the numbering saved correctly to the PCO.CFG
- file.
-
- 2) Fixed bug that occurs only when copying more than 255
- outline elements from one window to another.
-
- 3) Fixed bug that can occur only on an 80286 machine (we
- discovered one of the incompatibilities between the
- 8088 and 80286) in the following situations:
-
- a) Adding text to a lower window number outline with
- more than 64k of outlines above it in higher
- window numbers.
- b) Copying text or outline elements from a higher
- window # down to a lower window # with more than
- 64k of outlines in between.
-
- ADDED IN VERSIONS 1.08A AND 1.08B:
-
- 1) Added direct support for Prokey and Superkey so that if you use the
- /K command parameter option, PC-Outline will detect their presence
- and use their internal functions for putting them to sleep while
- using PC-Outline instead of going directly to the keyboard buffer to
- try to accomplish the same thing. This method is considerably more
- reliable and is compatible with the expanded keyboard buffers that
- the above products offer. If you do not use the /K parameter,
- PC-Outline behaves exactly as before.
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 3.24:
-
- 1) PC-Outline now uses an external ShareWare file called "PCO.ECT".
- The file should be present in the current directory.
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 3.25:
-
- 1) PC-Outline did not work correctly with characters above 127.
- This has been fixed in this version in the following areas:
-
- DELETE LINE
- DELETE WORD LEFT-RIGHT
- BLOCK OPERATIONS.
- WORD WRAP
- INPORT/EXPORT.
-
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 3.30 & 3.31: (NOT FOR THE INTERNATIONAL VERSION)
-
- 1) PC-Outline now supports the foriegn keyboard drivers
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 3.32 & 3.33:
-
- 1) Search path for shareware screen file is changed, PC-Outline now
- first searches the current directory, then tries to use the
- drive/path from the enviroment variable called "PCO".
- This means that if the command in your autoexec.bat is:
-
- SET PCO=C:\PCO\PCO.CFG
-
- then PC-Outline will first look for "PCO.ECT" in the current directory,
- and then if this failes, it will look for "C:\PCO\PCO.ECT".
-
- 2) Export block to Lotus 123 V 2.0 now fixed.
-
- 3) Bug relate to "E - Even Right Margins" & "R - Range Paragraph Style"
- fixed, now only the paragraphs marked by the block will be changed.
-
- 4) (NB! ONLY VALID FOR INTERNATIONAL VERSION) a new shareware screen has been
- added, the screen now consists of several screens, with the posibility to
- print out the documentation and a registration form. For the form the user
- can select the laguage he wants, and the level he wants. The correct
- address and price will the be printed in the form.
-
-
- ADDED IN VERSION 3.34:
-
- 1) ShareWare screen file "PCO.ECT" has been updated.
-
-
- Have Fun!