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M u c h M o r e V 3.6
============================
© 1992 by Fridtjof Siebert
Nobileweg 67
D-70439 Stuttgart
Germany
EMail: fridi@amokst.adsp.sub.org
Enhancements since Version 3.2 by
Christian Stiens
Heustiege 2
D-59348 Lüdinghausen
Germany
EMail: Christian_Stiens@ouzonix.bo.open.de (UUCP)
2:243/4802.25 (Fido)
What is MuchMore?
MuchMore
is another program like More, Less etc. that prints
ASCII-Files to the screen. Unlike these, it opens its own screen
to show the text and to scroll it softly! But not only softly,
MuchMore
is also able to scroll very quickly if you want it to!
Furthermore, there are commands to search for strings and to print
the text.
MuchMore
will run on any Amiga, whether it's a PAL,
NTSC, overscan or any Amiga in future. Because
MuchMore
's screen
has no border, there are 80 characters displayed per line.
MuchMore
can load texts, which are crunched or crypted by XPK or
powerpacker, if you have installed the XPK (and powerpacker)
libraries.
Why MuchMore instead of MORE, BLITZ or LESS?
MuchMore
is much shorter than LESS. BLITZ or other programs that
scroll quickly or softly usually use 2 Colors and don't support any
special fontstyles.
MuchMore
instead has four
C
o
l
o
r
s
and displays
bold
,
italic
,
underlined
and inverse text. Unlike many other
programs,
MuchMore
may use any non-proportional Font to display the
text.
MuchMore
is ideal to display long texts. The text is loaded
simultaneously while it is displayed. That is, while you're
reading the first page, the rest of the text is loaded into memory
and you're able to move through the text quickly then without
re-loading it.
How to start MuchMore:
CLI:
Kickstart 1.3:
MuchMore
[-a#|-b#|-c#{,#}|-e#|-f<name>/#|-l|-o|-p<name>|-s#|-t#|file]
Kickstart 2.04 and higher:
Template: A=TABWIDTH/N/K,B=PLANES/N/K,C=COLORS/K,D=DISPMODEREQ/S,
E=EXTRASPACE/N/K,F=FONT/K,N=NOOSCAN/S,O=OLDSTYLE/S,
P=PASSWORD/K, S=SCROLLMODE/N/K,T=TOOLPRI/N/K,FILE
'FILE' is the name of the ASCII-Text that is to be displayed.
If there are any spaces in the filename, it must be enclosed by
quotes. "
MuchMore
?" displays the usage. If
MuchMore
is started
without an argument it will ask for the filename using a file
requester.
With option 'A=TABWIDTH' you can set the tabulator width (default
is 8).
With option 'C=COLORS' you can set the colors for
MuchMore's
screen. Example: -cAAA,000,f00,0f0
If you set D=DISPMODEREQ, then a requester appears, with that you
can choose the display mode for the screen. If you click on
'Save' then the setting is saved to 'ENV:muchmore/muchmore.prefs'
and 'ENVARC:muchmore/muchmore.prefs'.
The option 'E=EXTRASPACE' tells
MuchMore
to put the specified
number of pixels between the lines.
You may select a font by providing the option 'F=FONT'. To force
MuchMore
to use Topaz 11, type 'MuchMore F=topaz/11'. Only
fixed width fonts are allowed.
'-l' forces
MuchMore
to open an interlaced Screen. When you're
using an interlaced WB-Screen, this tells MuchMore not to open
an interlaced screen. This option is for Kick 1.3 only.
If you set Option 'N=NOOSCAN', then
MuchMore
doesn't open an
overscan screen.
The option 'B=PLANES' determines the number of Bitplanes for
MuchMore's
screen. The maximum is two planes.
IF you set option 'O=OLDSTYLE', then pageup/down is with a soft-
scroll, like in older versions of
MuchMore
.
The option 'P=PASSWORD' determines the passwort, that
MuchMore
should use to decrypt a text that was crypted by XPK.
You can choose between four scroll modes by specifying the option
'S=SCROLLMODE'. Please test which mode is the fastest on your
machine. Scrollmode 3 is for not draggable screens and external
graphic cards.
You can specify
MuchMore's
task priority with option 'T=TOOLPRI'.
MuchMore's
Tooltypes are evaluated now also on CLI-Start
(KS 2.04). This can work only,if
MuchMore
isn't loaded resident.
Workbench:
Just click the text to be printed with your mouse and then shift-
doubleclick
MuchMore
.
Texts with
MuchMore
as their default-tool (e.g. ":c/
MuchMore
"
when
MuchMore
has been copied to the disk's :c/ directory) can be
displayed easily by doubleclicking them.
MuchMore
supports the following Tooltypes:
COLORS=#{,#} corresponding to CLI Option C
EXTRASPACE=# corresponding to CLI Option E
FONT=name/size corresponding to CLI Option F
NOOSCAN=TRUE|FALSE corresponding to CLI Option N
OLDSTYLE=TRUE|FALSE corresponding to CLI Option O
PLANES=# corresponding to CLI Option B
PASSWORD=name corresponding to CLI Option P
SCROLLMODE=# corresponding to CLI Option S
TABWIDTH=# corresponding to CLI Option A
TOGGLELACE=TRUE|FALSE corresponding to CLI Option -l
TOOLPRI=# corresponding to CLI Option T
The tooltypes of the text have priority over
MuchMore's
tooltypes.
MuchMore's commands:
The commands are activated by pressing the corresponging keys:
Space or left mousebutton:
Stops or restarts scrolling. While scrolling is
stopped the filelength, linenumber and the current
percentage of the text are displayed in the bottommost
line.
Pressing space at the end of the texts quits
MuchMore
.
BackSpace or right mousebutton:
Stops or restarts backwards scrolling. Works similar
to the Space-Key.
Up/Down or 2/8 of the numeric keypad:
Scrolls one line up or down.
If you press these keys together with the shift-key
you can start and stop fast scrolling.
Control plus these keys increased scroll speed 2-3
times.
Alternate plus these keys scroll one page up or down.
PgUp / PgDn (numeric keypad):
Scroll up or down one page.
T (top) or Home:
Moves to top of text.
B (bottom) or End:
Moves to bottom of text.
F (find):
Waits for a string to be entered and searches for this
string starting at the topmost line currently
displayed on the screen. If you press <shift>-<f>
then the search is case-sensitive. If you press key
'f' without shift then the search will be case-insen-
sitive. If the string is found, the line containing
the string will be displayed and the found string
will be highlighted. Else the screen will flash.
N (next):
Searches for the next occurance of the string entered
with `F'. See above.
P (previous