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- BLITZ 1.0 Text Viewer
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- by Hayes Haugen, copyright 1987
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- BLITZ is a small program that is designed to be loaded into memory and that
- sits in the background until activated by its hotkey. It can also be used
- as a CLI type command. Blitz allows you to view a text file, much like a
- TYPE command, only that it lets you move forwards and backwards through
- the file, much like an editor. Blitz's screen updates are the fastest on the
- Amiga. Blitz uses: Look at INCLUDE files quickly and easily, look at all the
- source and readme files you download, use the standard file to find out what's
- on a disk when the program you're using doesn't show you, open a cli at any
- time, pop up Blitz when running Textcraft; allows you to gain access to your
- Workbench with amiga M & N and lets you see what's on your disk, use it from
- your editor to look at more files. Blitz has hundreds of uses, when I started
- writing it I had know idea how useful it really would be. I am not
- exaggerating! I don't care if I am biased, but I couldn't imagine using
- an Amiga without Blitz.
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- Activation from the CLI is as easy as:
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- Blitz <filename> -b
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- Where filename is the file you want, and -b (optional) enters background mode
- immediately. If no filename is specified, Blitz presents a standard file
- requester. If you want to keep Blitz in the background, you should RUN Blitz.
- An icon is included for execution from the Workbench.
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- Menus:
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- Open - Gets you a file requester. Directories are shown in bold,
- double click on names to enter directories or select files.
- Save - Saves your file under its loaded name.
- Save As - Gets you a file requester. Saves your file under selected name.
- Print - Not yet implemented (aaah!)
- About - Tells you to send me money (please do).
- Help - Tells you keyboard controls.
- Open a CLI - Must have Newcli command in your c: directory.
- Quit - Closes doc, window and screen, enters background.
- Background - Preserves doc, closes window and screen, enters background.
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- Fast Keys - Makes keys repeat as fast as possible (or just use SHIFT).
- Word Wrap - Turns word wrap on or off.
- Video Sync - Turns video sync on or off. Try it both ways to see it's
- effects. Hard to do true video syncing nicely on a multi-
- tasking system.
- Tabs - Sets # of spaces between tab stops (not # of spaces for a tab).
- Strip HiBits Removes the hi bits from your files. Use if a file contains
- a lot of garbage characters, helps sometimes.
- Strip CR - Removes carriage returns from your document, sometimes
- neccessary for files that came from other systems.
- Convert CR to LF - Changes carriage returns into line feeds, sometimes
- neccessary for files that came from other systems.
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- All this for only 17K!
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- To restore Blitz from the background press left amiga and F3.
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- Use Blitz, discover how useful it is. Give it to all your friends, post it
- on all the boards, put it on public domain compilations, THEN if you
- decide to keep it, send me $10 (if you don't keep it, I guess you can't
- read):
- Hayes Haugen
- 11303 South Dogwood Lane
- Edmonds, WA 98020
- In return you will receive the latest version of Blitz with more features
- and no bugs (I'm not aware of any right now, but of course some will show up),
- complete, printed documentation, and notification of updates and other
- shareware products.
-
- Please send me suggestions for other ShareWare programs that you would like to
- see. Currently I am considering: keyboard macros in for use in any program,
- warm-boot recoverable ram: disk, screen grabber that is better than grabbit,
- and an editor/word processor (see below). I would also like to know what
- features you would like in the programs, and how much you would be willing
- to pay for it. The program with the most suggestions will be the next
- ShareWare product I release.
-
- I am just finishing a wonderful editor that has superfast screen updates,
- multiple windows, multiple documents, short code ( <50K ), and that is all
- in all better than any other editor for the Amiga, commercial or not. If
- enough people send me money for Blitz, I will release this editor as
- ShareWare for $20 or less. If not, it will be published commercially and
- you will have to pay at least twice as much, so send your money in! Support
- a poor programmer.
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- SHAREWARE: Someday, all software will be like this.
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- Blitz is copyright 1987 by Hayes Haugen. All rights are reserved except for
- non-commercial distribution from individual to individual as described above.
- Blitz is NOT public domain and may NOT be sold. Blitz is sold/distributed
- without any warranties as to it's usefulness and functionality.
-