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- This is a working version of yet another text display program, developed
- for the usual reasons - dissatifaction with all the other available text
- display programs available. It is an evolution of the Amiga LESS 1.0
- program released on one of the early "Fish" disks.
-
- The requirements of a text display program from our point of view are :
- 1) Source in public domain
- 2) Equal support keyboard and mouse control of all functions
- 3) Reasonably small, and friendly to multitasking
- 4) Use available features properly
- (ie sizing & close gadget, arrow & help keys used sensibly)
- 5) Provide at least the following features
- Foward/Backward scrolling by line & page (from mouse & keyboard)
- Jump to position in file, eg top, bottom, line num., %, marked spot
- Foward/Backward search
- Either wrap words at the right margin OR allow sideways scrolling
- Read multiple files, using CLI wildcards, and WB extended selection
- 6) Display ANSI escape sequences reasonably
- 7) Display files of arbitary length (ie bigger than available memory)
- 8) Acknowledge ^L's (\0x0c) as page breaks
- 9) No endless loops or other 'hangs' if trying to display a 'binary' file.
- 10)No GURUing or upsetting GOMF by stomping on low memory addresses!
-
- Many additional features would be nice, eg
- Iconizable window
- Residentable
- Display/Sound etc IFF picture/sound files
- Display other binary files as a HEX dump
-
- Well this program doesn't meet all the above (YET!), it does support most
- of LESS's features (but not piping), and doesn't have any of LESS's major
- deficiencies (no intuition support, strange keyboard control). But it does
- support almost all of items 1 to 10 above.
- Try it and tell us what's wrong, development is on going, hopefully oneday
- we'll have something that satifies most of our requirements.
- There's little documentation included, check out the help (from the help key
- of course!), and look at the ty.gadgets.pic if you're not sure about things,
- but of course it's more fun to try out the gadgets and find out what happens!
- See also the Projects & ProjectsDir from our C programmers section of our
- Newsdisk (NZAmigaUG #24).
- To my knowledge it doesn't have any serious bugs, but may have a lot of
- deficiencies. Would you kind folks act as Beta testers and tell us what
- you find.
-
- Contact ajwills on BIX, or write or ring :
- John Bickers Tony Wills
- 214 Rata Street 156c Queens Drive
- Naenae Lyall Bay
- Lower Hutt Wellington 3
- NEW ZEALAND NEW ZEALAND
- phone (NewZealand)4-672-085 phone (New Zealand)4-877-258
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- NB the compiled version of ty included in this ZOO is a slight update of
- that represented by the source files, it now supports ^L page breaks.
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