J-Write for Windows - a product of MWA Software.
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This is J-Write for Windows - a fast well featured editor for general text files 
and EMail. J-Write is both a useful application and a demonstration of a new set 
of components for Borland Delphi.  J-Write supports editing of very large files, 
any ANSI Font, configurable tab settings and four line wrap modes, multi-level 
undo/redo and many other features. See the readme files and the online help for 
further info. 

Shareware, From MWA Software. 

This file contains information about J-Write and Installation instructions. See 
the file ORDER.TXT for pricing information and How to Order J-Write, LICENCE.TXT 
for the shareware licence, and WHATS.NEW for information on the latest release.

Support is provided by EMail from jwrite@mwassocs.demon.co.uk (Internet) or 
100041,315 (Compuserve). Please also check out our web pages on 
http://www.demon.co.uk/mwa-soft


J-Write provides:

* Fast editing of large files - up to the maximum DOS and Windows can   
  support, while using only a few Kilobytes for each open file.

* Four word wrap algorithms, including a WYSIWYG wrap on printer page width

* Support of any ANSI font including variable pitch fonts, and configurable tab 
  settings

* EMail extensions including automatic insertion of quote prefixes, reformatting 
  of EMail Messages and uuencode/decode

* Zoom In and Out

* Multi-level undo/redo with no limit other than available memory

* Bookmarks, jump to any page or line number, and fast search/replace, including 
  searching for tabs, page breaks and line breaks

* Word captialise, text flow, conversion of soft to hard line breaks, and  
  many other valuable features.

* Normal and block mode selection of text with both the keyboard and the mouse.

J-Write is also available as a set of Delphi components, making its powerful 
editing engine available to Delphi Developers. J-Write components are 
available for both 16-bit applications and 32-bit applications.

ABOUT J-WRITE
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Microsoft Windows provides two built-in text editors - Notepad and MS Write 
(Wordpad in Windows 95). Notepad is a simple plain text editor for small 
files, while MS Write is a small word processor. However, they both suffer 
from what might be called the Goldilocks paradox, neither is just right.

Notepads problem is that it is not powerful enough. It is unable to open 
text files of any significant size. Activity logs and Bulletin Board 
Directories are but two of the file types that Notepad habitually rejects 
due to the file being too big.

On the other hand, MS Write is too powerful (and often too slow) for simply 
displaying or editing simple text files - and - if you are not careful - 
you can too easily save a modified file in MS Writes own format and not 
simple ASCII text.

There is a need for a Windows text editor that is "just right". Powerful 
enough to edit text files of any size, but not too feature loaded as to 
slow it down. Enter J-Write. J-Write aims to be the text editor that 
is "just right". There is no limit on the file size that you can edit. You 
can jump from one end to the other in the same time as you can jump to the 
next page, and free text searches of megabytes of data just have to be seen 
to be believed.

J-Write supports free and easy text editing. All the usual edit keys are 
there and word wrap is automatic. Lines may be wrapped on actual line 
breaks, on screen boundaries, on printer page boundaries (true WYSIWYG), or 
after so many characters. You can flow lines of text into paragraphs and 
saved edited files as paragraph text or line oriented text. Any ANSI 
Windows font is supported, both variable and fixed pitch. You can also set 
tabs to any position you want.

The mouse is well supported with drag and drop editing. Clipboard support 
is naturally provided, and there are multiple user setable undo and redo 
levels, if you need to undo editing operations.

J-Write also has special extensions for EMail. You can merge in existing 
text files either as they are, or with each line prefixed by a "Mail 
Quotes" string. Text pasted from the clipboard can similarly have a Mail 
Quotes prefix. Binary files can also be uuencoded prior to merging. Both 
text and binary files can also be compressed using your favourite 
compression utility, before the uuencode engine is applied. UUDecode can 
also be performed on any text currently in the edit window.

J-Write comes with online context-sentive help.

J-Write is marketed as shareware. You have a licence to use it for 

thirty days after which you should either register it or stop using it. 
There is no Nagware other than an initial About Box, and registration 
depends on your honesty. But it is to your advantage to register. Firstly, 
the registration of shareware ensures that more low cost high quality 
programs are produced. Secondly, registered users of J-Write get the 
J-Write editing engine as a Delphi Component. The text editor can then 
be incorporated in any of your  applications. The full source code is also 
available.

INSTALLATION
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J-Write comes with its own setup program and installation should be 
largely automatic. If you obtained J-Write from a Bulletin Board, then 
it is likely that the installation files will be contained in a single 
pkzip archive. You must first use the pkunzip program to expand the archive 
into either a temporary directory, or on to a single floppy disk (a 720KB 
diskette will be sufficient).    

Minimum system requirements: Windows 3.1, 600KB free disk space.

The setup procedures are different depending on whether you are installing 
under Windows 3.x, or Windows 95.

Installation under Windows 3.x
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When installing under Windows 3.x, you must install J-Write from Program 
Manager. Select the RUN menu item from Program Manager's FILE menu and 
enter the file name and path of the J-Write setup program.

For example, if you are installing from a Diskette in drive A:, you will 
enter:

A:\SETUP.EXE

Alternatively, if you have expanded the archive into a temporary directory, 
then you will enter the path of the temporary directory instead. For 
example, if this directory is called "tmpsetup" and is on drive C:, then 
you will enter:

C:\tmpsetup\setup.exe


Press OK. 

The setup program will now run. You will be prompted for the directory in 
which to install J-Write. In most cases, the suggested default will 
suffice. You will also be prompted for permission to install J-Write as 
your default text file viewer and print program. If you answer yes to this 
prompt, then whenever you click on a .txt file in File Manager, J-Write 
will be called to display it for you. Similarly, if you select PRINT from 
File Manager's FILE menu and a .txt file is selected, the J-Write will 
be called to print the file using whatever font and paper margins you set 
when you last used J-Write.

Installation under Windows 95
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When installing under Windows 95, you must install J-Write using the 
Add/Remove Programs applet on the Control Panel. If you are installing from 
a Diskette, then the applet should find the setup program automatically. 
Follow the on screen instructions to start the J-Write setup program.

Alternatively, if you have expanded the archive into a temporary directory, 
then you will need to assist the Add/Remove Programs applet and explicitly 
enter the path of the temporary directory or Browse for it instead. For 
example, if this directory is called "tmpsetup" and is on drive C:, then you 
will enter:

C:\tmpsetup\setup.exe


Press Finish 


The setup program will now run. You will be prompted for the directory in 
which to install J-Write. In most cases, the suggested default will 
suffice. You will also be prompted for permission to install J-Write as 
your default text file viewer and print program. If you answer yes to this 
prompt, then whenever you click on a .txt file in Explorer, J-Write 
will be called to display it for you. Similarly, if you select PRINT from 
Explorer's FILE menu and a .txt file is selected, then J-Write will 
be called to print the file using whatever font and paper margins you set 
when you last used J-Write.

REMOVING J-WRITE
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In the unlikely event that you will want to remove J-Write, removal is 
straightforward. An uninstall program will have been installed by the installation 
program and this may be found in the J Write program group. Simply run this 
program and J-Write will be removed and notepad configured as your default text 
viewer. Under Windows 95, you can also uninstall the 32-bit version of J-Write 
from the Install/Remove programs Control Panel Applet.

