Short: Viewer for text/guides/html/datatypes Author: Jürgen Klawitter Uploader: Andreas Neumann Type: text/show Replaces: text/show/Next2.9* 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. Doesn't need amigaguide.library but uses it if wanted - Conversion of various text formats: IBM/MSDos text, MacIntosh text, MacBin, FTXT, RTF, MSHelp files, Unix manual pages, MSWord, MSWrite, WordPerfect, FinalWriter and WordWorth - displays powerpacked data files (internal routine) and XPK files - expands LZ77 compressed (SZDD) files - 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 in V3.0 =============== meaning: + new, ^ improved, * changed, - removed + Conversion of Unix/Linux "man pages" with nroff formatting instructions. File type in Info: MAN + Conversion of WordPerfect Documents (V5-V7, for Windows). File type: WPD + Conversion of IFF text: file type FTXT + Conversion of FinalWriter/FinalCopy and WordWorth documents. File types: FW and WW. + New function "MatchFiles". Works like the AmigaDos command Search with options FILE ALL. + Documentation now in AmigaGuide format. ^ Next is now aware of the picture.datatype V43 and can display 24bit- pictures if the subdatatypes allow it. ^ Informations about a picture are now shown by a requester _on_ the pictures screen (no screen switching). The requester has a "Print" gadget, too. ^ Guides: Line numbers within LINKs are now supported. ^ Guides: More support for colors (\@{FG/BG/APEN/BPEN...}) Color 3 is reserved for LINKs. ^ Headings of Unix man pages containing backspaces are now displayed correctly. The following lines show the difference: Next2.9: S S S SY Y Y YN N N NO O O OP P P PS S S SI I I IS S S S Next3.0: SYNOPSIS ^ Message "No Match" after search has been replaced by "No " ^ Some smaller improvements concerning conversion of AmigaGuides, RTFs, and HTMLs. * New DTMode pointer. * Renamed options: @LIB to AGLIB, @PUR to PURE. Please adapt next.prefs if necessary. * Settings: Renamed PAUSE to PAUSEPRINT and LINKS to MAKELINKS - Option @CON has been removed because it's the default and opposite of PURE. - HQX-Decoding and listing of StuffIt archives have been removed. I suppose nobody needed these features. - BUG: Screen dump printed the whole screen not the picture. - BUG: MyFiles didn't work with filenames set in "". - BUG: WORD documents hadn't been recognized in rare cases. (Hint from Andreas Neumann) ============================= Archive contents ============================= Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- ------------- 1174 332 71.7% 16-Oct-00 17:29:18 +Next.info 731 637 12.8% 16-Oct-00 17:30:40 +NextD.guide.info 731 637 12.8% 16-Oct-00 17:30:24 +NextE.guide.info 628 267 57.4% 17-Nov-95 21:23:44 Next3.0.info 40464 30748 24.0% 21-Oct-00 07:13:18 +Next 66975 26900 59.8% 21-Oct-00 07:12:50 +NextD.guide 57235 22170 61.2% 21-Oct-00 07:12:50 +NextE.guide -------- ------- ----- --------- -------- 167938 81691 51.3% 11-Nov-100 21:48:06 7 files