M u c h M o r e V 3.7 ============================ İ 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. MuchMore can be made resident with the Resident command of AmigaDOS. 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 Colors 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/#|-i|-o|-p#| -s|-t#|] Kickstart 2.04 or higher: Template: B=PLANES/N/K,C=PALETTE/K,D=DISPMODEREQ/S,E=EDITOR/K,F=FONT/K, O=OLDSTYLE/S,P=TOOLPRI/N/K,S=SCROLLRASTER/S,T=TABWIDTH/N/K, X=EXTRASPACE/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 'T=TABWIDTH' you can set the tabulator width (default is 8). With option 'C=PALETTE' 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.prefs' and 'ENVARC:muchmore.prefs'. The option 'X=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. Option 'E=EDITOR' tells MuchMore which editor to use if the user hits Alt-Shift-E. Default is 'C:ED'. If there is no %s then %s is appended. The %s is replaced with the file name. 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. If you set 'S=SCROLLRASTER' then MuchMore scrolls not with RasInfo.dyOffset but with ScrollRaster. This is for not dragable Screens like the 2024 monitor mode. You can specify MuchMore's task priority with option 'P=TOOLPRI'. MuchMore's Tooltypes are evaluated now also on CLI-Start (KS 2.04). If MuchMore is resident then the icon is searched in C: 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: PALETTE=#{,#} corresponding to CLI Option C EXTRASPACE=# corresponding to CLI Option X FONT=name/size corresponding to CLI Option F EDITOR=name corresponding to CLI Option E OLDSTYLE=TRUE|FALSE corresponding to CLI Option O PLANES=# corresponding to CLI Option B SCROLLMODE=# corresponding to CLI Option S TABWIDTH=# corresponding to CLI Option T TOOLPRI=# corresponding to CLI Option P The tooltypes of the text have priority over MuchMore's tooltypes. If the text is crypted then you have to enter the password in the stringgadget which appears before the text is loaded. 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 - 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): Searches for the previous occurence of the string entered with `F'. It starts with the topmost line that's currently displayed and searches backwards. If the search is succesful, the line containing the string will be displayed like it is by the F-Command. Else a beep will be displayed. Shift + Fn: Shift plus one of F1 to F10 sets a text marker at the current position. Fn: Jumps to the text marker #n that's been set with Shift plus Fn. If text marker #n isn't set yet, it will be set to the current position, as it would have been if you had pressed shift plus Fn. G (goto): Opens a Window with an integer-gadget. You can enter the number of the line that is to be displayed. Shift + Alt + E (edit): Calls an text editor by executing "C:ED %s" with %s replaced by the actual file name. If the text was crunched then the decrunched text in "T:" will be editied. 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 commands TYPE and RUN must occur in the current C: directory. You don't have to wait while printing. You can continue reading the text with MuchMore. I hope that it is impossible to press shift+alt+o accidentally, so you won't 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 :-). W (write): Writes the text that's marked between the textmarkers that have been set with F1 and F2 to a file or to PRT: when you accept the default filename. The text is saved starting at the topmost line of the page marked with F1 until the bottommost line of F2's page. To print the current page you just press Shift+F1, Shift+F2, w and RETURN. C (copy): Copies the text that's marked between the textmarkers that have been set with F1 and F2 to the clipboard. This command requires the iffparse.library of Work- bench 2.04+. L (load): Opens the filerequester and loads a new text. HELP or H: Shows all MuchMore-Commands. This way everybody who doesn't have this documentation file should be able to use MuchMore. After pressing any key the text is displayed again. ESC, Q, X or 5 of the numeric keypad: Quit MuchMore. To avoid leaving the program by mistake the keys Q, X and NK5 first show the info line before quitting. The Files in this package: MuchMore  The executable MuchMore.doc  This textfile MuchMore.dok  German documentation src (dir) This directory contains the source: MuchMore.mod  The OBERON Source Disclaimer: The use of this program is on your own risk. There is no liability or responsibility for any damage caused by the program. Copyright: MuchMore is free to be spread on public-domain and shareware disks, as long as they  are sold for a reasonable charge.  It may be used there to display readme- and documentation-files. My name has to be left in the program (HELP). Although MuchMore is not Shareware, donations are welcome. It's not allowed to use this in a commercial way without my written permission. This permission is also necessary if you want to publish MuchMore as a part of a commercial product or use this program commercially in any other way. If you change anything in my source you're allowed to put your name in the program's head (:History.), but leave my name in! If you've made any enhancements, please send them to me (else there'll be thousands of different versions). Compiling: MuchMore was written in Oberon-2 using the Amiga Oberon Compiler V3.01. You can find a demo version of the Compiler on Fish Disk #880. Revisions: v1.0: - this version was terribly slow and therefore not published! v1.1: - first published version. v1.2: - now the file's name, its length etc. are displayed when scrolling is stopped with . - now left and right mousebutton can be used instead of space and backspace. - controlcodes aren't displayed anymore. 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 keypad (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 Workbenchscreen. v1.4: - Displaying and loading of the text are now done by two asynchroneous tasks. Scrolling is more homogeneous now and there are no more stops to load further text. - The feature to display several texts has been removed. - Bugs in filelength and end-function removed - New commands: find, next, previous to search for strings - Scrolling stops when MuchMore's window becomes inactive. v1.5: - New command: print text (shift+alt+o) - removed all imports to make MuchMore shorter - added numeric key 5 to quit v1.6: - From this version on texts with different fontstyles (bold, italics, inverse) and different colors can be displayed! v1.7: - Now MuchMore is again as fast as MuchMore v1.5 was, although it uses 2 bitplanes and uses several fontstyles. - Print (shift+alt+o) doesn't crash anymore when you quit MuchMore before printing is complete. v1.8: - Bug which occured when searching for a string having searched for a longer string, removed. - Strings found while execution of F, N or P are highlighted now. - Added NK0 to display filelength etc. v2.0: - Ported MuchMore to OBERON - Removed bug that caused RMB not to work on some amigas (it did work on my computer) - now uses the arp-filerequester - new command: L = load new text v2.1: - Read-/write-errors used to create some very interesting crashes with colorful graphics and stereo sound. I'm sorry, but I had to remove this. - CSI-Codes have been executed BACKWARDs. This caused problems with sequences like 0;4m. Fixed now. - New Commands: Ping & Pong, Goto - First page is displayed immediately now when MuchMore is started. v2.2: - Now MuchMore uses console's keymapping instead of the hardcoded one it used before. So there won't be problems with any japanese keymaps. v2.3: - New command: 's' (sleep) and pop up function lAlt+ESC. 'MuchMore -s' sleeps immediately. - Bug in interpretation of [m fixed. [m is now treated as [m. v2.4: - New Command: 'w' to write block to file or priner - Argumentparser rewritten. Now supports quotes. v2.5: - Uses 8x8 Font set with SetFont instead of topaz 8. - Allocates 4K Memory chunks instead of one memorychunk for each line. So MuchMore won't scatter the Memory anymore. Another positive effect is that MuchMore needs less nemory now (about 14 Bytes per line). v2.6: - asynchronous fast scrolling with the ctrl-key. - MuchMore is reentrant (pure) - MuchMore uses an interlace screen when the preferences are set accordingly. - On low chip-memory, MuchMore uses a 1-plane screen. v2.7: - '-l' to toggle interlaced mode - uses ASL's FileRequester - no more calls RethinkDisplay() 50 (or even 60) times a second v2.8: - leaves some spaces between the lines on interlace screens to make the text more readable. v3.0: - sleep ('-s') is no more supported (was rarely used). - now MuchMore uses any non-proportional font. - new options to select a font: '-f' and '-s'. v3.1: - Uses Screenmode of Workbench Screen v3.2: - Support for not srollable Screens - No more Scrolling if complete display rebuilding --- Fridtjof. v3.2.1: - XPK Support - New Syntax for option -f. Example: -ftopaz/11 - New option -p for Password - New option -e for Extra Spacing - New option -c for Screen Colors. Example: -c0,abc,f00 - Tool-Types v3.2.2: - The last version displayed the first two chars of each line at the end of the line on some overscan dimensions. v3.2.3: - The non-scroll mode now works under KS2.04 when using a 8x8 font - The Console-Device wasn't closed - Display Mode Requester - New option -s for Scrollmode - Busypointer - ToolType evaluation if CLI started (AmigaOS 2.04) - Finds MuchMore's Tooltypes now also, if MM as default tool of the Text wasn't found directly but over the Dos search path. v3.2.4: - Some bugs in GetString() removed - MM now ignores key/mouse strikes while it is busy v3.2.5: - Asynchronous scrolling changed. - Dos.ReadArgs - New Option -t / "T=TOOLPRI" for task priority v3.2.6: - Scrollmode 3 scrolls soft - Scrollmode 1 is default under KS2.04 and higher - New option -a or "A=TABWIDTH" for tabulator width - New option -o or "O=ONEPLANE" - New option "N=NOOSCAN" - Opens screen with full overscan width - Uses QText no more v3.2.7: - MM doesn't poke to his bitplanes no more, but uses the funcs of graphics.library for this purpose v3.2.8: - Option "O=ONEPLANE" removed - new Option "B=PLANES" instead v3.2.9: - implemented V36 ANSI Codes (22-28m) v3.2.10: - Locale Support - Made Display Mode Requester font-sensitive v3.3: - Keys Q, X and NK5 quit after first showing the info line to avoid unintended quitting v3.4: - Key 'c' copies the text between markers #1 and #2 to the clipboard v3.5: - Search can be case-sensitiv or case-insensitiv - Searching now with Boyer-Moore Algorithm v3.6: - New Option O=OLDSTYLE for page up/down w/ softscroll - Screen flashes when pressing Up (Down) at BOF (EOF) v3.7: - New Option E=EDITOR - MM was not 100% pure because the BusyPointer image was not copied -> Probs with WShell - Option PASSWORD removed. Password must be entered in a string gadget - Options NOOSCAN and SCROLLRASTER removed - Text was not printed if filename contained spaces - MuchMore crashed under Kick 1.3 when displaying italic text due to a bug in Kickstart 1.3. --- Christian.