CygnusSoft Software
         Box 363, 1215 Davie St, Vancouver BC CANADA  V6E 1N4        


July 17, 1987


Dear Mr Fish,

     It  is  good  to  see  someone  so  dedicated  to  Amiga software
distribution  -  we  are  enclosing  a  couple  of  programs  here for
inclusion in your library of "Fred Fish" public domain software disks.
We have recently unveiled our latest project:  CygnusEd.  You may have
heard of us on CompuServe as the people who developed the MandFXP Fast
Fractal  graphics  program.   Well,  here  are demonstration copies of
both.

     Here is an incomplete list of CygnusEd's features:

        1.  Multiple files can be edited simultaneously.
        2.  Multiple views of the same file (co-operating).
        3.  VERY! FAST display.
        4.  Margins, word-wrap, status-lines, insert/overstrike,dual
            keypad interpretations.
        5.  EXTENSIVE online help.
        6.  Intuitive commands, full menus, almost all commands can be
            accessed via the keyboard.
        7.  Soft scroll borders (adjustable).
        8.  Many, many screen width, height variations, including
            overscanning.
        9.  Adjustable tab size, positioning, interpretation as
            spaces or as tab characters.
       10.  Choice of LAYOUT/STANDARD screen operation.
       11.  Very fast search, replace (with wildcards!).
       12.  Keyboard/menu MACROS.
       13.  Storage of preferred settings, macros.
       14.  Runs from CLI or WorkBench.
       15.  Text formatting options.
       16.  Direct ASCII value entry.
       17.  Block/line/word cut/copy!
       18.  Vertical (any rectangular region) block operations.
       19.  Intuitive, flexible cursor operations from keyboard.
       20.  Adjustable scroll speeds.
       21.  Hidden escape codes option.
       22.  Hardcoded function keys containing over 40 common escape
            codes.
       23.  Optional terminate and stay resident - reappear with single
            keystroke.
       24.  The priority of the CygnusEd editor can be set to any
            value from -9 to +9 or can simply inherit the default
            priority from the workbench or CLI it is run from.
       25.  Video-display scrolling for ease of use in overscan
            screens.
       26.  Settings and macros can be stored in many different
            "defaults" files which are loaded automatically when you
            invoke CygnusEd.










    CygnusEd  runs  on  512K,  single drive systems and fully supports
extra memory and extra drives.

    CygnusEd  costs $30.00 US and version 1.12 is available right now.
Updates  are  done  at  cost as a service to the customer.  The update
cost  for  CygnusEd will be $10.00 US.  This includes an update to the
manual.

    We  encourage  you  to  distribute this demonstration copy far and
wide,  you  can  include  it in your club library and distribute it to
your  members.  The only difference between the demonstration copy and
the real copy is that the demo will not allow you to save files larger
than  5K in size (but you can still load them and edit in them and try
its  performance on large files).

Thanks!


Steve LaRocque
Bruce Dawson
CygnusSoft Software


PS:   If  you have any questions regarding either CygnusEd or MandFXP,
feel  free to give us a call (604-688-1085) or write us.

    Programmers who are interested in using the file requester used in
CygnusEd  can  write  to  the  author,  Colin  Fox, care of CygnusSoft
Software.  Colin charges $10.00 for the source and object code, please
enclose  an extra  $5.00  to  cover  for  his  costs.   An  additional
requirement  is that he would like a copy of any programs that use his
file requester.

    All  programs  on  this  disk  are  freely  distributable in their
original form at no cost.


SLBD/sl

encl.