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- Welcome to THE, The Hessling Editor.
-
- INTRODUCTION
- ------------
-
- THE is a full-screen character mode text editor based on the VM/CMS editor
- XEDIT and some features of KEDIT for DOS written by Mansfield Software.
-
- THE is known to run on SUNOS 4.1.3, Solaris 2.x, Xenix-386, DOS,
- OS/2 2.x, Esix 4.0.3a, ATT SystemV 3.2, Linux, 386BSD, AIX, HP-UX,
- Ultrix, Sequent. THE should compile on any Unix system.
-
- THE OS/2 port is similar to EPM, runs within an OS/2 command window and is
- HPFS aware.
-
- Apart from the real-mode DOS executable, THE uses a REXX interpreter to
- execute macro files. The OS/2 version uses the REXX interpreter that comes
- with OS/2, while the extended DOS version is linked with Regina; a freely
- available REXX interpreter.
-
- THE uses curses as its screen handler. This makes it portable but not the
- best for fast screen refreshes.
-
- If you find bugs or major inconsistencies, please let me know.
-
- A mailing list has been created for discussion of THE. You can subscribe
- to it by sending an email message to listproc@gu.edu.au with the body of
- the email message containing:
-
- SUBSCRIBE THELIST Your Name
-
- To send messages to other subscribers, send an email message to
- thelist@gu.edu.au.
-
- THE is distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License.
- For more details see the file COPYING that should have accompanied this
- file.
-
- THE is available via anonymous ftp from the following sites:
-
- North America: rexx.uwaterloo.ca
- /pub/editors/the
- Europe: flipper.pvv.unit.no
- /pub/the
- Australia: ftp.gu.edu.au
- /src/THE
-
- thedos??.zip - version ?.? DOS executable and documentation
- thedjg??.zip - version ?.? extended DOS executable and documentation
- theos2??.zip - version ?.? OS/2 executable and documentation
- thesrc??.zip - source code for version ?.?
- thesrc??.tar.Z - source code for version ?.?
-
- You will need Info-Zip's Unzip 5.0 or equivalent to unzip this archive.
- Also note that the source files will be in Unix format (LF only to end line)
- so unzipping under DOS or OS/2 use the -a switch.
-
- MANIFEST
- --------
-
- COPYING - GNU General Public License
- readme.exc - this file
- the.exe - DOS or OS/2 executable.
- the.man - THE Reference Manual
- the.his - release history
- *.hlp - help file(s) for THE version
- profile.the - sample profile file which immitates KEDIT
- *.the - sample THE macro files (only useful with a
- supported REXX interpreter)
-
- EXTENDED DOS VERSION
- --------------------
-
- This version of THE contains an executable compiled with DJGPP. This
- version requires go32.exe from DJGPP 1.10 or later and allows for files
- up to 128mb in size. Included in thedjg??.zip is the DOS extender from
- DJGPP; go32.exe. This file must be in a directory referenced in your
- PATH, and set the environment variable GO32=ansi as a minimum. For more
- information, consult the documentation that comes with DJGPP.
- DJGPP can be obtained from: omnigate.clarkson.edu in ~ftp/pub/msdos/djgpp
-
- INSTALLATION
- ------------
-
- - Unzip the archive. (I assume you have already done that)
- - Move the .exe file into a directory in your PATH somewhere.
- - read APPENDIX 1 of the.man for an explanation of the optional
- environment variables that can be used by THE for specifying default
- profile files, help file and macro paths.
- - run THE -h to obtain details of the command line options.
-
-
- Read the.his to see what has been added or changed in the latest release.
-
- Enjoy, Mark.
-
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- Mark Hessling Email: M.Hessling@gu.edu.au
- DBA,ITS Phone: +617 875 7691
- Griffith University Fax: +617 875 5314
- Nathan, Brisbane QLD 4111 ***** PDCurses Maintainer *****
- Australia *** Author of THE and GUROO ***
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