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- *** NICE-N-EZ V2.01 ***
- (C) Digital Manufacturing Systems 1991
- P.O. Box 1079 Rogers, Ar 72757
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- WHAT IS NICE-N-EZ?
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- NICE-N-EZ is a complete program development environment, inspired by
- the environment of the Quick language series (QuickBasic, QuickC and
- QuickPascal) developed by Microsoft. NICE-N-EZ can be used to develop
- programs in any programming language and you can provide your own
- dynamic, help information from which you may copy and transfer text,
- such as programming examples, to the clipboard for inclusion in your
- own program.
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- NICE-N-EZ allows you to add as many as 10 different application
- programs to its menu for execution when you make that menu selection.
- You assign the menu name, prompt line and the command line to pass to
- DOS. The command line may contain variable data that is relative to
- the currently active file and you may also specify the amount of DOS
- memory required to run the program.
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- NICE-N-EZ is fully mouse aware, both for menu selections and cursor
- control, while editing text. NICE-N-EZ also recognizes a double-click
- of the mouse when selecting files for loading, etc..
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- You may load as many as five (5) different files at once, each in a
- different window that is sized, positioned and colored by the user.
- In addition to the usual editing capabilities, NICE-N-EZ provides for
- user maintained help text that is instantly available for the word
- under the cursor (press the F1 key), powerful block operations, a
- clipboard to store deleted or copied text, automatic indentation,
- keystroke macros and miscellaneous programming aids. Also, NICE-N-EZ
- will function in 25, 43 and 50 line screen modes.
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- Drop-Down Menu choices may be made by mouse or keyboard. Dialog boxes
- are used when additional information is required.
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- Development of this program was prompted my own need. I do some
- programming in FORTRAN and I like the environment Microsoft provides
- in their Quick language series, but they didn't offer QuickFortran.
- So, I began developing my own environment that offered many of the
- same features as QuickBasic. Incidentally, NICE-N-EZ is written
- mostly in QuickBasic with some assembler. Microsoft has since
- released Programmers Work Bench with a recent version of Fortran but I
- think there is still a need for NICE-N-EZ with older versions of some
- languages and with some of the Shareware languages. I hope you agree.
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- Also, I believe NICE-N-EZ will fill the need of many people for a
- simple, powerful and easy to use text editor. Yes, another text
- editor but, with state of the art appearance and functions.
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- SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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- 1. IBM PC/XT/AT or compatible computer.
- 2. MS/PC DOS 2.1 or later
- 3. Minimum of 512kb memory
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- HOW SHOULD I PROCEED?
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- First you should make a backup of the distribution disk. Then you
- should read the documentation thoroughly to find out what is available
- in NICE-N-EZ.
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- However, if you are in a hurry to get started, just type EZ SAMPLE at
- the DOS prompt. You can learn about the program just by using the
- Help features that are available. Take a look at all the Drop-Down
- menus. You can activate the menu bar by pressing the Alt key. Then
- use the arrow keys to highlight your choice and press the Enter Key.
- Alternately, you may make your selection by clicking the mouse on your
- choice. Also, you may press the Hot Key (the letter that is high-
- lighted in each choice), after the menu bar has been activated, to
- make your selection.
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- You can make your choice from the Drop-Down Menu in the same manner as
- above.
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- Try EZHELP (instant help) by placing the cursor on the word "Rogers"
- and press the F1 key. Registered users may develop their own text
- files to be compiled into EZHELP files. These help files may include
- specifications for your programming language with examples that may be
- cut and pasted into your own programs.
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- Please report any problems you may have to:
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- Digital Manufacturing Systems
- P.O. Box 1079
- Rogers, Arkansas 72757
- Voice/FAX: 501-925-3666
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- Good computing,
- Bob Drewry
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