TEXVIEW II
 By
 K. SHARKEY
 3 Gumnut St
Albion Park Rail 
N.S.W. 2527
Australia
June 1992


       This Text displayer is Public domain. I use it to 
display short .doc files and as an easy way to view IFF 
pictures from the Workbench. To use the reader simply click 
on the TEXVIEW icon and select a file from the standard Amos 
file selector. If you wish to use the program from the CLI 
then you can include the filename of the file to view 
directly after the TEXVIEW command, for example 

SYS:Utilities/TEXVIEW Ram:File.ext <RETURN>

      Once TEXVIEW has examined and formatted the file it 
will display it for you to view. If the file you have 
selected is a Iff picture file then Texview will display the 
picture for you if it is able to be loaded. If the file is a 
music file which has been saved in standard Amos format (  
intend working on other formats) the program will 
automatically play the music.
The following keys are now available to you.

<UP ARROW> or select  up  icon Scrolls page towards top of 
file
<DOWN ARROW> or select down icon Scrolls page towards bottom 
of file
<T> or select icon Moves to top of file
<B> or select icon Moves to bottom of file
<F1>	or select disk icon Load a new file
<Q> or select off button icon Quits and returns to 
Editor/WBench
<P> or select document icon Prints current file/part file on 
printer (Except music/pic files, Press F2 for pic files)
<HELP> Displays a help screen
<Left Amiga + A> Toggles between Texview & W/Bench (This 
allows you to use other programs at the same time) 
<F2> Graphic dump of picture. (New feature)   

          You can also point to the slider at the right side 
of the screen and click the left mouse button to move to any 
midpoint of the program.When answering Yes/OK or No/None at 
any of the requesters the "Y" and "N" keys will work in 
place of the mouse click if you prefer. When you wish to 
print a file an option screen will be offered asking how 
much you wish to print. Clicking on the (<>) arrows where 
the screen numbers are displayed will change the range of 
screens to print either up (>) or down (<). If you then 
select "OK" the portion of file you have selected (measured 
in screens) will be printed.
      In case you are unfamiliar with the Amos standard file 
requester I will describe it. The requester loads the 
directory from the current directory. Simply click on the 
file you want to view (or double click) and select OK to 
load the file.The two arrows at the top left of the 
requester scroll up and down the directory. The small 
circular icon (o) at the very top left loads the parent 
directory.Click on the sort box to sort the directory 
alphabetically at any time.The quit box quits the requester 
without loading anything.Setdir makes the directory/volume 
on display the current directory for all future 
access.Clicking on the right mouse key will display all 
available volumes and let you choose any volume on display 
with a click of the left key.Alternatively you can click 
directly in the bottom directory and filename boxes and type 
the names you want on the keyboard.
Recently, I sent for A. Grants Dos Printer Utility. I have 
installed a printer dump utility in the program using this 
excellent program, so that now Texview will also allow you 
to print out the picture files you are viewing. A 
preferences screen will come up if you press F2 while 
wiewing a picture. You can click to set various options 
including the size of the resultant printout in 1/1000 ths 
of an inch, and the keep (or don't keep)  normal aspect 
ratio feature.
	The size of the printout is altered by clicking on the +/- 
symbols on the right of the window. Clicking with left mouse 
alters value by 1, clicking with right mouse alters by 10 
and both mouse keys alters the value by 100. If you choose 
to keep normal aspect ratio the printout will retain the 
correct x and y axis ratio. Clicking on the WB Prefs flag 
will reset all the preferences to the default values. The 
workbench preferences will be used for all other printout 
features.
	The bottom of the screen now carries three new features as 
well. CR (Carriage Returns) , TAB and WORD WRAP appear on 
the screen, Click on them to toggle the feature on or off. 
CR (|P) allows you to merely view a carriage return or print 
it as normal. TAB will either show you a TAB symbol (>>) or 
prints a space in place of a tab. WORD WRAP  breaks lines at 
spaces instead of inside a word on files with line lengths 
longer than 80 columns. If your file looks strange or 
overscrolls the length of the page try clicking this, it 
will usually fix it without  much fuss.
	 I hope you find Texview handy to have sitting on the 
WorkBench, I know I do. I would appreciate any comments or 
bug reports or for that matter any communication with other 
Amos users with similar interests. It would also be 
interesting to learn how far this program travels.
ENJOY 
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