Short: Viewer for text/guides/html/datatypes Author: Jürgen Klawitter Uploader: Andreas Neumann Type: text/show Replaces: text/show/Next2.8* NEXT is a fast and compact text viewer, written in assembly. It displays all kinds of files including binaries, crunched and archived files. OS 2+ required. Main Features: -------------- - Hypertext viewer for HTML (offline) and AmigaGuide documents - converts MSDos/IBM texts to Amiga charset - converts MSWord and MSWrite documents to plain text - displays powerpacked data files (internal routine) and XPK files - expands LZ77 compressed files (magic=SZDD) - unpacks and displays archived files (LhA,LZX,ZIP,GZIP,RAR,COMPRESS,TAR) - internal detar routine - GUI for dearchivers - displays and prints pictures (OS 3+ and datatypes needed) - remembers previously loaded files - easy loading of your favorite files which can be predefined - font sensitive, font selection by font requester - saves/prints whole file or a definable block - printings with title line and page numbers (position and style of title line can be selected) - fast and effective search: all matches are displayed at once on screen - pattern search - search by mouse click - special search routine for strings within binaries - counts words, strings or chars within file or block - various modes to load a file - scans directories using wildcards - AMINET support - bookmarks - appwindow - clipboard copy - size of displayed files unlimited - reentrant code (can be made resident) ... and more --------------------------------------------------------------------- Changes V2.9 ============ meaning: + new, ^ improved, * changed, - removed + New option RAR : RAR archives can now be extracted. Your need UnRAR 2.04.1 by A. Kleinert not the version ported bei A. Vallinetto which is buggy. + New option DTMODE: sets the datatype mode at program start. + Decoding of HQX files(suffix .hqx). They mostly contain SIT archives. + Internal routine for listing the contents of StuffIt (SIT) archives. (Not very useful but better than nothing). Unfortunately SIT archives can't be extracted. UnSit for the Amiga (V1.5) is obsolete. + Conversion of two MacIntosh text formats, macbinary (type TEXT) and another format which I found on an AOL-CD called by me 'MacDOC'. ^ Conversion of WORD documents has been much improved. NEXT now analizes structures within a document and puts pieces of text in the correct order even when the document is very fragmentated. Unfortunately conversion is slower now because the document has to be re-read from disk and more memory is needed,too. The WORD version which produced the document is shown in the Info window. ^ Footnotes, endnotes and annotations within WORD documents are now numbered if they are "auto-numbered". ^ PostScript XBM und XPM files are recognized and displayed by datatype if datatype mode is on. They have been identified as TEXT in earlier versions. ^ Handling of archives has been improved: If the current archive has been extracted from an archive (subarchive) and you delete it by pressing Shift-Del the contents of the motherarchive will be presented again. ^ Display of pictures has been improved, especially of small ones. 1x1 pictures don't cause problems any more. PostScript pictures displayed by HWGPOST-Datatype and colors=3 are no longer distorted. ^ Search of strings within list windows can now be backwards e.g. search of a file within an archive list. Press "P" to go up. If search fails you'll get the message "No " in the window title. * The datatype mode (AsDT mode) has been renamed to 'DTMode'. - BUG: The @LIB mode had been ignored if datatype mode was on at the same time. ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 628 267 57.4% 17-Nov-95 21:23:44 Next2.9.info 38140 28861 24.3% 29-Jun-00 12:06:54 +Next 57283 22694 60.3% 29-Jun-00 09:11:32 +Next.doc 731 637 12.8% 26-Oct-98 20:53:26 +Next.doc.info 67956 27953 58.8% 29-Jun-00 09:01:02 +Next.dok 731 639 12.5% 26-Oct-98 20:53:26 +Next.dok.info 1174 332 71.7% 26-Oct-98 20:53:48 +Next.info -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 166643 81383 51.1% 03-Jul-100 14:56:56 7 files