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!PD-Impres/!Help
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| Filename: | !PD-Impres/!Help |
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| File size: | 088F bytes |
| Load address: | 0000 |
| Exec address: | 0000 |
File contents
/*
* !PD_Impres
*
* � Stuart Hickinbottom 1990
*/
This utility was written to allow data to be
transferred from Colton Software's PipeDream to
Computer Concepts' Impression. It does this by
converting the PipeDream highlight codes (eg. %H1%
meaning bold) into Impression DDF (Document
Description File) format codes (eg {"Bold" On} for
bold).
To use the utility double-click on the
!PD-Impres icon in a filer window. Soon a similar
icon will appear on the icon bar. This icon has a
menu containing a standard information window and a
quit option to remove the utility.
To convert a PipeDream file simply drop it onto
this icon, a short time later a standard export
window will appear, allowing the DDF version to be
saved into another filer window, or directly into an
Impression frame.
Because of the way in which PipeDream formats
paragraphs (it actually inserts a line-feed at the
end of each line) the line-breaks must be editied
out once the file has been inserted into a frame -
but this is a small price to pay for the time saved
by highlights being converted.
/* Revision History */
0.10 First version released mainly to find bugs.
0.11 BUG FIX on RAM xfer. If the sending does not
work, then a file xfer should be attempted.
Used to complain, but this is now the case.
This was spotted from what I think is a bug in
PipeDream - it tells you it can send via RAM,
but then does not send anything! I was
developing with Edit - so I never noticed this
as Edit works fine.
0.12 BUG FIX. Only accepted \x0a for EOLN (which is
the case in PipeDream on the Arc). Would fail
in a number of ways if terminator used was
\x0d (which it is on Z88 PipeDream).
0.13 BUG FIX (RAM xfer). Was not extending the
buffer when it should. Caused several obscure
signals. Xfer should now be bug free under ALL
circumstances(!) - just noticed still getting
signal 3 (SIGILL) - must look into it...
/* Future enhancements */
* Implement RAM xfer from the !PD-Impress -
currently only does this via scrap file protocol.
* When using scrap protocol, alter name from
<Wimp$Scrap> in export box.
Stuart
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