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M u c h M o r e v 1.5
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© 1988 by Fridtjof Siebert
Nobileweg 67
D-7000-Stuttgart-40
What is MuchMore?
Muchmore is another program like More, Less etc. that prints
ASCII-Files to the screen. Unlike these, it opens a CustomScreen to
show the text and to scroll it softly! But not only softly, if you want
MuchMore is also able to scroll very quickly! 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 future Amiga.
Because MuchMore's screen has no border, there are 80 characters
displayed per line. And all of that for less than 16K! That's about 56%
of LESS' size!
How to start MuchMore:
CLI:
Just Type:
MuchMore <FileName>
FileName is the name of the ASCII-Text that is to be displayed. If
there are any spaces in the filename it has to be surrounded by
quotes.
Workbench:
Just select the text to be print with your mouse and then
shift-doubleselect 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 by just doubleclicking them.
MuchMore's commands:
The commands are activated by simply pressing their 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 backward scrolling. Works similar to the
Space-Key.
Up/Down or 2/8 of the numeric keys:
Scrolls one line up or down.
If you use these keys together with the shift-key you can
start and stop fast scrolling.
Alt plus these keys scrolls one page up or down.
PgUp / PgDn (numeric keys):
Scrolls one page up or down.
T (top) or Home:
Moves to first page.
B (bottom) or End:
Moves to last page.
F (find):
Waits for a string to be entered and searches for this
string starting at the topmost line currently displayed on
the screen. The search is case-insensitiv. If the string
is found, the line containing the string will become the
new topmost line on the screen. Else the last page is
displayed.
N (next):
Searches for the next occurance of the string entered with
`F'. See above.
P (previous):
Searches for the previous occurence of the string entered
with `F'. It starts at the topmost line that's currently
displays and searches backwards. If the search
is succesful, the line containing the string will be
displayed like it is by the F-Command. Else the first page
of the text is displayed.
Shift + Alt + O (printout):
Prints the text. This is done with "TYPE text TO PRT:". So
it works with any printer when the preferences are set
correctly. The TYPE and RUN commands must be in the C:
directory. While printing you needn't wait. You can
continue reading the text with MuchMore. I hope that it is
impossible to press shift+alt+o accidentally, so you wont
print a 100k text when you in fact don't need a printout.
The printing cannot be interrupted, but you can switch off
your printer and wait for the printertrouble-requester.
HELP oder H:
Shows all MuchMore-Commands. This way everybody who
doesn't have this documentation shall be able to use
MuchMore. After pressing any key the original text is
displayed again.
ESC, Q, X or 5 of the numeric keys:
Quit MuchMore.
The Files of the package:
MuchMore: The executeable (16188 Bytes).
MuchMore.mod: The Modula-II Sourcecode (M2Amiga compiler v3.1)
MuchMore.ReadMe: This documentation.
MuchMore.LiesMich: The german documentation
Every file has it's icon.
Copyright:
MuchMore is free to be spread on Public-Domain and Shareware Disks, as
long as they are sold for less than $6. It can be used to show ReadMe-
and Documentation- Files, but my name has to be left in the program
(Help-function and while starting without argument).
Although MuchMore is not Shareware, donations are welcome.
It's not allowed to uses this commercially without my written
permission. This permission is also neccessary if you want to publish
MuchMore as a part of a commercial product.
If you change anything in my source you're allowed to put your name in
the program's head (:UpDate.), but leave my name in!
Mail:
If you have any comments, donations, questions or PD programs just send
them to me!
Revisions:
v1.2:
- now the file's name, its length etc. are displayed when scrolling
is stopped with <Space>.
- now left and right mousebutton can be used instead of space and
backspace.
- Control Codes are no more displayed.
v1.3:
- Strong increase in speed while scrolling. WarpText has been
replaced by QText (Sorry, Bill). MuchMore is now as fast as Blitz!
(with Video Sync) although it uses a bigger Screen.
- Now supports numeric keys (home, end, PgUp etc.)
- Now the screen gets it's size from gfxbase^.normalDisplayXXX. This
way MuchMore can be run on PAL, NTSC, Amigas with an Overscan-
Workbench (like mine), and on resolutions that'll be used in
future. It always opens its screen as big as the current Workbench-
screen.
v1.4:
- Display and Loading of the text are now done by 2 asynchronus
tasks. Scrolling is more homogenus now and there are now more stops
to load further text.
- The feature to display several texts has been removed.
- Bugs in filelemgth and End-function removed
- New Commands: Find, Next, Previous to search for strings
- Scrolling stops when MuchMore's Window is inactivated.
v1.5:
- New Command: Print text (shift+alt+o)
- removed all imports. Now MuchMore is 16828 Bytes short!
- added numeric key 5 to quit
--- Fridtjof.