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.