From megalith!CSAA2@uunet.UU.NET Sun Jan 23 01:33:23 1994 Received: from relay2.UU.NET by toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu (4.1/UCD.CS.2.4) id AA28420; Sun, 23 Jan 94 01:33:21 PST Received: from spool.uu.net (via LOCALHOST) by relay2.UU.NET with SMTP (5.61/UUNET-internet-primary) id AAwabm28356; Sun, 23 Jan 94 04:33:14 -0500 Received: from megalith.UUCP by uucp5.uu.net with UUCP/RMAIL (queueing-rmail) id 043123.26771; Sun, 23 Jan 1994 04:31:23 EST Received: by megalith.miami.fl.us (V1.16.20/w5, Dec 29 1993, 21:22:55) id <0bje@megalith.miami.fl.us>; Sun, 23 Jan 94 03:02:25 EST -0500 Date: Sun, 23 Jan 94 03:02:25 EST -0500 Message-Id: <9401230301.0bjd@megalith.miami.fl.us> Sender: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Errors-To: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Warnings-To: warnings@megalith.miami.fl.us Return-Path: errors@megalith.miami.fl.us Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Reply-To: haas@starnine.com (Mike Haas) Message-Number: 676 Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.announce Message-Id: From: haas@starnine.com (Mike Haas) (CSAA) To: announce@megalith.miami.fl.us Subject: Textra 1.15 released Status: RO TITLE Textra, GUI-based Amiga Text Editor w/ ARexx VERSION 1.15 COMPANY None AUTHOR Mike Haas 3867 La Colina Rd. El Sobrante, CA. 94803 mikeh@starnine.com Also author of JForth Professional and LCD Calculator. DESCRIPTION Textra is the User-Friendly text editor for the Amiga. It contains a fully-Intuitionized GUI as well as an ARexx interface with 70+ commands. The package interfaces with the asl file and font requesters, supports multiple windows with cut, copy and paste to the clipboard. Also supported are Undo and Drag-select with left mouse button, background printing and ARexx script execution, user-settable preferences which can be saved. The editor displays fast text and continuous-movement vertical and horizontal scroll bars. The package contains full, detailed documentation, 40+ Arexx scripts (including an interactive tutorial) and a hard disk installer program. Scripts are provided to integrate Textra with JForth Professional 3.x, SAS/C, HSPascal and Paul Kienitz's Q-Blue Offline Mail Reader program. NEW FEATURES o Textra now includes a full-featured interface to the popular SAS/C development environment, developed and generously contributed by one of SAS Institute's own! o The new MARKS facility allows you to assign any selected text to a logical name of up to 31 chars long. Any number of assignments can be made. o Users may now opt to use the ASL File requester in place of the native Textra file requester. Default is the Asl requester. o Under 2.0 or later, the CUT, COPY and PASTE functions now operate with the standard clipboard device (unit 0). o This is the first version to be low-memory-failure-proof! ANY MEMORY REQUEST FAILURE WILL FLASH THE SCREEN 3 TIMES in 1 second, then wait until the memory comes available. o Textra now supports just about any mail reader known to Amiga-Man! Textra 1.15 sports both a command-line option as well as an ARexx command which tell Textra to "hold" the calling program until the specified window is closed. o Program now takes note if a file is MSDOS format or Amiga format and will preserve the format when saved. o Added the ability to write-protect a window so that it cannot be accidentally altered while open. o Before you SAVE a file over an existing disk file, Textra now performs some checks that nothing else has messed with the file on disk while the editor has held a copy in ram. o Under 2.0 and later, Textra will display the 2.x-style 'busy pointer'. o 14 new ARexx commands, 12 new scripts o Bugs fixed SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS None, but additional functionality if run under 2.0 or later. PRICE $25.00 Shareware fee. DISTRIBUTABILITY Unregistered versions of TEXTRA are freely distributable. FILE NAME/LOCATION Uploaded to aminet, specifically... wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) as: /pub/aminet/util/edit/Textra15.lha Also uploaded to Genie, Amiga libraries, section 4, Utilities OTHER An earlier version (v1.11) is distributed with JForth Professional 3.x. This release of Textra is completely backward-compatible with that version. -- Read all administrative posts before putting your post up. Mailing list: announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu. Comments to CSAA@megalith.miami.fl.us. MAIL ALL COMP.SYS.AMIGA.ANNOUNCE ANNOUNCEMENTS TO announce@cs.ucdavis.edu. ==================================================================== This is part of a mailing list gateway maintained by Carlos Amezaga. Bugs, Comments, Subscribes and UnSubcribes should be sent to announce-request@cs.ucdavis.edu.