From: f2rx@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca (Craig Bruce)
Subject: Zed-128 Update Appetizer
Organization: University of New Brunswick, Canada (eh!)
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1992 14:57:48 GMT

ZED-128 version 0.70 Appetizer

At the end of February 1992, I submitted a text editor for the C-128 called
"Zed-128" to some FTP sites and I submitted an article describing it to this
news group.  I have received enough response from that to continue developing
Zed-128, and I am almost ready to make another release.  I will be submitting
it to the CS.DAL.CA FTP site and I will make an announcement about it sometime
this weekend.  I will also submit it to the Milton FTP site, but it will take
a little while for it to show up there.
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New features of version 0.70 over version 0.65:

- Works with non-burst devices.  I haven't tried it on a RamLink, RamDisk,
  CMD HardDrive, or any RAMdisks, but there is a possibility that Zed might
  work with these as well.

- File translation to and from various ASCII formats and SPEEDSCRIPT format.
  The ASCII formats include ASCII-Lf (Unix), ASCII-CrLf (MS-DOS), and ASCII-Cr.

- TAB character expansion and compression.  A TAB optionally can be expanded
  into the equivalent number of spaces when reading a file, and spaces
  optionally can be compressed into a TAB character when writing.  TAB
  compression crunches up some files very well (like programs) and results in
  faster reading and writing speeds since fewer characters need to be 
  transfered.

- Print current document feature.

- Options screen for setting a number of program parameters.  These parameters
  include read/write translation and TAB handling modes, screen colors, 
  keyboard repeat and delay speeds, maximum REU usage limit, and printer Dev#,
  S.A., and character translation mode.

- Some minor bug fixes.

- Another 16K of free memory on the unexpanded (and the expanded) C-128.
  Ya gotta like that!

{Version 0.65 was the last copy officially released to the CS.DAL.CA FTP site}
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Features of version 0.65 over version 0.63:

- CT-B command to enter a byte number for a character.

- CT-U command to "use" a different disk device number.

- Some minor bug fixes.

{Version 0.63 is the copy available at the Milton FTP site}
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The major features of version 0.63 were:

- Global search and replace.

- Range delete and recall.

- Works with BIG text files.  It gives around 90,000 bytes free for the
  unexpanded 128 and over 600,000 bytes free with a 512K RAM expander.  It
  auto-detects whether you have a RAM expander and supports up to 8 Megs.

- 100% unadulterated machine code with high-speed VDC accessing.

- Uses Burst commands for reading 1571 and 1581 files.  Reads about 
  3,500 bytes/sec from a 1571 and about 6,100 bytes/sec from a 1581.

- Uses a dynamically allocated data structure to hold the editor document
  and the "Kill Buffer", so there are no fixed limits on the size of each;
  they both can use all of the memory that is available.

- All versions of Zed-128 are/will be Public Domain Software.
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If you have any questions or comments, email me.
If I don't get enough mail, I may have to do some school work!

-Craig Bruce
f2rx@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca
"If a tree falls in the forest and nobody hears it,
 is Bambi squashed beneath it any less dead?" - Mason Capwell