Short: Viewer for text/guides/html/datatypes
Author: Jürgen Klawitter
Uploader: Andreas Neumann
Type: text/show
Replaces: text/show/Next2.6*
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:
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- Hypertext viewer for HTML (offline) and AmigaGuide documents
- converts MSDos/IBM texts to Amiga charset
- converts MSWord and MSWrite documents
- displays powerpacked data files (internal routine) and XPK files
- expands LZ77 compressed files (magic=SZDD)
- unpacks and displays archived files (LhA,LZX,ZIP,GZIP,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
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Changes V2.7
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meaning: + new, ^ improved, * changed, - removed
V2.7
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+ Conversion of RTF (Rich Text Format) including footnotes and styles.
+ Conversion of texts, Word documents and RTF files created on Macintosh
computers to Amiga charset.
+ Self-extracting zip and lha archives for MSDos/Windows can now be unpacked
^ Conversion of MSWord documents (especially Word8) improved.
^ Several small improvements
- BUG: Some items of help menu didn't work correctly
============================= Archive contents =============================
Original Packed Ratio Date Time Name
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628 267 57.4% 17-Nov-95 21:23:44 Next2.7.info
34996 26552 24.1% 26-Jul-99 10:45:56 +Next
52807 20938 60.3% 26-Jul-99 10:46:18 +Next.doc
731 637 12.8% 26-Oct-98 20:53:26 +Next.doc.info
62647 25732 58.9% 26-Jul-99 10:46:18 +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
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153714 75097 51.1% 29-Jul-99 16:12:24 7 files