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Documentation Update
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Product:   Comet Editor (CED)

Version:   98.02 through 99.02

Date:      January 29, 1999

The following changes were made to the Comet Editor (CED) program:

CED 98.02
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1.	Added Uppercase/Lowercase insentivity for command line.

CED 98.11
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1.	Completed Uppercase/Lowercase insentivity to all commands
	including INSTALL LOCAL|GLOBAL.

2.	Added 504 compatibility by using INQUIRE instead of READ.

3.	Modified INSTALL LOCAL for Comet98 so that users preferences
	are stored IN #CED by NODE NAME (USER PROFILE "/PN= "),
	if no NODE NAME is available, then preferences are stored
	using terminal id (TERM$) as before. Also added separate
	preferences for CometAnywhere users.

4.	INSTALL LOCAL also has a new option to SET HELP where user
	can choose between 503 (CEDTOPIC) and 504 (Hypertext) help
	and Comet98 users can optionnaly select to use HTML help
	with either default browser or with specific browser (such as
	Likse or NavRoad). Note that when entering paths, do not use
	Window's long names. The HTML Help files should be installed
	within the Comet directories as TechDoc\mtb. CometAnywhere
	users of HTML help will automaticaly launch the web page:
	http://www.signature.net/signature/techdoc/mtb/index.htm

5.	Fixed the BRIGHT and VBRIGHT command to respect the orginal
	case of the source code (was putting bright item in uppercase).
	Also fixed the end of range (BRIGHT did not stop at the
	specified end of range. Syntax:

		BRIGHT "search-value",starting-line,ending-line

	Undocumented feature.

6.	Corrected error messages dislay for the ACCESS command.
	(ACCESS was disabled in CED 1.A and still is).

7.	Fixed COPY command to properly accept the words TERM and TERM$
	as copy block representing current terminal Txx, where

		COPY T03     note: lower case also accepted "t03"
		COPY TERM
		COPY TERM$

	would all yield the same result (undocumented feature).

8.	SEEK and VSEEK commands. When processing usefiles, ENDUSE
	will stop seeking. SEEK will now open and read SEQUENTIAL
	and TEXT usefiles, line number displayed are the actual
	record number. When SEEKing, only relevant usefile names
	are printed to save screen space. Display has been changed
	into a graphical tree. The "*" on the usefile lines has been
	changed to "_" for readability. Also added a Continue? prompt
	when page is full. Standardized error message if USEFILE
	couldn't be open.

9.	Undocumented feature: SEEK and VSEEK can be output to the
	printer using syntax:

		SEEK "search-value" LOG=printer

	Output is formated like on the screen, except that search-value
	is underlined.

CED 98.12
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1.	Discovered a bug in the NLM that caused CED to freeze when
	doing page-up or page-down. Found that the INQUIRE statement
	did not release EXTRACTed records. Changed all EXTRACT to use
	POSITION. The NLM has been fixed as of release 2.40.

2.	Modified the HTML Help configurator to make more user friendly.

3.	Fixed a couple of minor display problems.

CED 99.01
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1.	Modified INSTALL LOCAL (again) to make it easier to
	configure HTML Help through the Internet. Modified
	so that users preferences are now stored by Terminal Name
	(TERM$), Node Name (PN= on startup, called thru DSTAT(X00))
	and User Name (called thru PSTAT(PARTITION$,44,16) - had
	to be Secured: SECURE (PWORD$) where PWORD$ is combination
	of user name (16 bytes) and password (16 bytes).
	Please consult the documentation about SECURE, this will
	be very useful in the near future when the Comet Permission
	System is implemented.

	Note: if the HELP command does not work on your system, try
	using F1, if that works then verify your Nova settings in
	Qtility 43-NOVAMNT, make sure that "Auto Help" and F1 are
	both set to "H". If that does not work, make sure your
	system has help files by running CMHELPB, that will allow
	you to create the necessary file for Nova, re-run CED and
	HELP should be working.

CED 99.02
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1.	Modified "Install Local" to allow configuration of the BIOS
	mouse for Comet 504 users running on Windows 95 in a
	windowed mode. DOS users or full screen users should stick
	with the regular mouse driver.