NOTES ON READ VERSION 2.2
                       10/11/88

READ is an ASCII text file viewer.  The original version was
written in Zbasic, and was limited to files no larger than 64K,
only displayed the first 80 characters of each line in the
file, with no horizontal scrolling, and was was strictly black
and white.

READ Version 2.0 was written in Turbo Pascal 4.0, and allowed
viewing files as large as available memory and horizontal
scrolling.  Version 2.1 added color support (and a support
program by Mark Hopkins called COLORS to select colors for text
and background, status line, popup windows and help window).  In
both these versions, however, embedded tab characters were simply
displayed as the corresponding graphic for character for ASCII
009.

Now, Version 2.2 of READ, written in Turbo Pascal 5.0, expands
embedded tab characters to spaces, based on tab stops every three
columns.  There is also a minor bug fix so the text will use all
of the lines above the status line (2.1 left a blank line between
the bottom of the text and the status line, an "off by one"
error.  The disk transfer buffer has been increased to minimize
physical disk accesses to make up somewhat for the decrease in
speed resulting from checking each line for tabs and expanding
them to spaces if necessary.

Future plans, IF USER SUPPORT WARRANTS IT, are for reading in a
new file without exiting READ, and for split screen file viewing,
to view two files at the same time.

The suggested registration is $10.

                            Pat Anderson
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