Short: Textread, a very fast text viewer Author: Martin Blom (lcs@lysator.liu.se) Uploader: Martin Blom (lcs@lysator.liu.se) Type: text/show Textread version 38.82, release 1.13. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Textread is a more/ppmore/... clone. The main difference is the speed. Textread is designed to be as fast as possible, yet system friendly. Some of the features are: o Speed o Support for XPK and PowerPacker o Multibuffer o Multi settings o Softscroll (well it sucks, really) o RTG compatible o Can use any fixed-width font system-friendly o Can use any 8×8 pixel font on Amiga bitplanes with very fast text routines o Supports pipes Just download it and have a look. Changes since previous release (1.11) Release 1.13 ŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻŻ V38.82 'Edit text' now runs the editor async. Textread should now be 100% (well, close) compatible will graphics cards, if 'system rendering' is selected. Added 'Save' and 'Save As...' menu items. The file requesters now have a title, just like the other ones, when using RTPatch. Minor improvements to the requesters, removed redundant code. Improved the ANSI/ISO sequence remover (It did not remove ANSI/ISO sequences, just some common Escape sequences!). When 'system rendering' is selected, any fixed-width font may be used, as long as 80×20 characters fits on screen. (Expect some slowdown) When searching, the found word will be hightlighted (or the line the word is on if wildcard is used). You can now supply your own icon images for the prefs files and the AppIcon, just create the files "ENV:Textread/def_prefs.info" and "ENV:Textread/def_app.info". (Re)added 'Go to line' (l, #) and 'Go to %' (g, %) The default preference file is now located in 'ENVARC:Textread/Textread.prefs'. Added a palette requester. Well, not quite... All it does is running SYS:Tools/Colors (Exists on your WB 2.0 disk. 3.0+ owners may want to try Ian J. Einman's IanUtils (Fred Fish, or AmiNet:dev/asm/IanUtils.lha) The prefs files have changed format for the last time, the new format is more flexible. The key binding has changed a bit. The 'Reveal' list now also shows buffer numbers. Textread now supports pipes. Read the docs for notes. Some bugs removed, some small things improved. Textread never detaches itself from shell anymore. It was inconsequent, and besides, 'run' was made for a reason. Added Open/Close Workbench menu items. If a second copy of Textread is started, without the NEW argument, only a small portion of the code will stay resident in memory, waiting for the new buffer in the old Textread to be closed. Ehmm.. let's just say it saves memory. System rendering and fontfake is allways on (and can't be turned off) when a non-native screenmode is selected. This will avoid potential (chip) memory trashing. Fixed the "***Corrupt window pointer!" problem WShell reported. Thanks, Ulrich! Added a requester to prevent accidental saves. Discovered what caused a frustrating bug that made my custom text routines do nothing (no screen clear, no text printing, no nothing.) It was Magic Layers (1.1) . So if Textread suddenly (or more specific after you have dragged a window on Textread's screen) stops printing, just iconify it and deiconify, and don't drag any more windows on Textreads screen! Changed the shareware rules a bit. Removed a bug that caused Textread to crash if the ENVARC: assign did not exist. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 439 229 47.8% 04-Aug-95 02:54:42 FILE_ID.DIZ 628 271 56.8% 03-Aug-95 14:31:38 Textread.info 5094 1921 62.2% 04-Aug-95 03:02:36 Textread.readme 330 228 30.9% 03-Aug-95 20:25:52 +Textread.PC.prefs 486 288 40.7% 03-Aug-95 14:31:34 +Textread.PC.prefs.info 332 231 30.4% 03-Aug-95 20:25:58 +Textread.prefs 486 288 40.7% 03-Aug-95 14:31:34 +Textread.prefs.info 628 272 56.6% 03-Aug-95 14:31:34 +fonts.info 524 38 92.7% 03-Aug-95 14:31:34 +IBM.font 4000 2111 47.2% 03-Aug-95 14:31:34 +11 3236 1834 43.3% 03-Aug-95 14:31:34 +8 47624 24966 47.5% 04-Aug-95 02:52:06 +Textread 37862 12435 67.1% 04-Aug-95 03:02:54 +Textread.doc 513 268 47.7% 03-Aug-95 14:31:36 +Textread.doc.info 40559 13186 67.4% 04-Aug-95 03:05:00 +Textread.guide 468 224 52.1% 03-Aug-95 14:31:36 +Textread.guide.info 938 523 44.2% 03-Aug-95 14:31:36 +TextRead.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 144147 59313 58.8% 06-Aug-95 22:07:58 17 files