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- NBR 1.10 (12-May-1992)
- NewsBytes and BIX Reader
- Copyright (C) 1992 Geoffrey Sy
- All Rights Reserved
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- NBR is supported by:
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- Residence: Support BBS:
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- Geoffrey Sy The GRAFIX Connection
- 51 Wyatt Walk HST: (416) 287-9002
- Toronto, Ontario CANADA 2400: (416) 286-8734
- M5A 3T3
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- NBR make reading NewsBytes and BIX less of a chore. It breaks
- down NewsBytes and BIX articles into sections. Then presents
- a scrollable menu of the available articles to choose from.
- To use NBR, issue the following commands from DOS:
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- To tell NBR the location of your text viewer for reading the
- articles - this should be done first:
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- NBR /S
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- To view a new file:
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- NBR NB920421.TXT
- NBR NB*.TXT
- NBR BIX
- NBR BIX*.*
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- To view an article that has been previously processed by NBR:
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- NBR
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- Online help is available by pressing F1.
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- NBR can be incorporated directly into your DeLuxe² reader. To
- do this just load up DeLuxe², choose Config, Misc, cursor to
- "LIST file command" and type in NBR.EXE.
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- TECHNICAL SPECIFICATION:
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- COMPILER:
- Turbo Pascal v6.0 by Borland International.
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- TOOLS:
- The Textual User Interface (TUI) used in this program was
- made possible with the help of Techojock's Object Toolkit.
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- HARDWARE:
- The computer is a home-made 80286/20. The phosphor tube
- is a blazingly fast and colourful 12" amber CGA made by
- DataTrain. The hard drive is a high speed, high capacity,
- quiet ST-296N SCSI driven by a state-of-the-art ST01 host
- adaptor. Both items were manufactured by Seagate. One of
- the nicest thing about the system is the quiet tactile
- Omikey keyboard by Northgate.
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- MEMORY:
- It uses some memory, but not a lot.
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- LIMITS:
- The program reserves 65K for storing article headlines.
- This is adequate for most operations, if you need more, a
- version that uses all available conventional memory is
- available for the asking.
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- REVISION HISTORY:
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- 05-11-92 - v1.00: Initial Release
- 05-12-92 - v1.10: Added support for reading BIX
- Can be as your DeLuxe² text reader
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- REGISTRATION:
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- This program is FreeWare, No registration is asked. Comments,
- suggestions, critiques, donations are welcome.
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- STANDARD DISCLAIMER:
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- This program is provided on an "AS IS" basis. No warranty of
- any kind is expressed or implied.
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- USE THIS PROGRAM AT YOUR OWN RISK.
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- I take no responsibility for any damage caused directly or
- indirectly from the use or the inability to use this program.
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- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS:
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- NewsBytes and BIX
- - Copyrights of McGraw-Hill Ryerson
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- DOS
- - Copyrights of Microsoft, IBM, Digital Research and
- all DOS producers.
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- Turbo Pascal
- - Copyrights of Borland International.
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- TechnoJock's Object Toolkit
- - Copyrights of TechnoJock Software, Inc
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- Other
- - Copyrights of their respected copyright holers.
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