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From: Jeff.Salzberg@f729.n106.z1.fidonet.org (Jeff Salzberg)
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Subject: Re: SQWINT
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Date: 16 Nov 90 16:22:04 GMT
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[This is from the Blink Talk Conference]

 WS>      Are you familiar with the htype command?  This one allows 
 WS> you to stop at any screen, and return to that screen later.  It 
 WS> also has a search command which I don't like because it is case 
 WS> sensative, and it will not tqake you to the word you are 
 WS> looking for, it takes you to the screen it is on. 
 WS>      Will sqwint get around some of these problems.

 I'm not familiar with htype.  SQWINT's search command gives you the
 option of a case-sensitive search, but the default is
 non-case-sensitive.  It does take you to the word you're looking for,
 but I suspect you'd still have to re-read that entire screen.

 WS>      I also have ralph, but the only advantage I can see to it 
 WS> is that it will tell me if a file is a wordperfect, or a dos 
 WS> file.  I don't like it's continuous read command, because once 
 WS> you start it, you can't get out of it.  I like to beable to 
 WS> stop if I wish to check something closer. 

 I have been planning to make SQWINT Word Perfect compatible, but Word
 Perfect wants money before they release file formatting information,
 and I am not a commercial software publisher, just an impoverished
 theatre artist and programmer.  You can exit SQWINT's non-stop mode by
 pressing "N" - the same key you press to enter that mode.  There is
 also a "line-by-line" mode.

 WS> Now, besides being partial because 
 WS> you wrote it, would it behove me to check it out again.

 WALTER!  You're asking me about one of my CHILDREN!

 Check it out.  If it's not what you want, delete it...or give me more
 suggestions so I can MAKE it waht you want.

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