QUOTE FOR THE DAY, FOR WINDOWS Version 1.1 (c) Thomas Tuerke, 1990 "Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind." - W. R. Alger WOW! ---- Quote for the Day, having garnered such amazing response, now as a new version available: 1.1. In this new version, much has been added. Features that I have wanted to implement, as well as many that have been requested by others, are now incorporated. WHAT'S NEW ---------- This is a list of the features new to 1.1: - The Clipboard is now used by Quote for the Day: copy the current quotation to be pasted into another application. - Window position is remembered now. If you move the window, it will at that location there the next time Quote for the Day is loaded. - There are now dialogs to control Quote for the Day functionality. - Now you may choose between one of three actions. The original 'pick a random quotation', but also minimize, or close. - With the new search feature, you can find quotations by some word or words in the quote or author's name. - Extensive on-line help. In fact, most of the documentation has been moved out of this file into the help file. - ATM now coexists happily with Quote for the Day. Thanks to the folks at GO ADOBE. - Less tangible, but probably just as important, the code has been cleaned up to get rid of some little nasties, as well as making Quote require less memory. The executable has grown only 6K, but will occupy considerably less memory than the original, due the segmentation of code. Another significant change is that the quote file is now ANSI, not OEM/ASCII. This means that while you can no longer use just any DOS text editor, you can edit the file with almost any Windows word processor, such as Write or Word for Windows. If you have added quotes to your quote file, you'll need to convert it to ANSI. (If you would really rather, you can set ANSI=0 in the [Gravesend Quotes] section of WIN.INI, and you'll be able to continue using OEM/ASCII, but seriously consider moving to ANSI soon.) WHAT TO DO ---------- Quote for the Day is ready to run 'out of the box'. If everything's in the same directory, you should have no trouble running the program. For those of you that would rather read the documentation before running the program, run WINHELP and then OPEN the file QUOTE.HLP. WHEN YOU HAVE QUESTIONS ----------------------- Gravesend BBS is also a good way (the best way, actually) to get a hold of me; the number is 707-795-4939, up to 2400 baud supported (so far). Due to an unfortunate accident, a different phone number appeared in the About screen of an early (test) copy of version 1.1; please make a note of *this* correct number. If you have your own quotations, I would love to see them; please send them along. Already people have been interested in philosophical, biblical, and even fractured quotations. Other avenues are: on UUCP as jandel.com!tmt@uunet.uu.net, and on CIS at >INTERNET:jandel.com!tmt@uunet.uu.net My USPS mail address is: Thomas M. Tuerke "Quote for the Day" 441 San Carlos Way Novato, CA 94945