History file for the os/2 version of crom utilities, refer to cromtag doc
for the regular documentation
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There's not much to this... this is version 0.03

This is nothing more than a very eary release, very crude so far...

Also, I've only played with this for a few days, there are probably bugs
that I've not seen yet, so if you find some, please let me know...
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Sunday, June 9th

 - I finished this enough to at least work with the options... I started it
   yesterday, I've never written a native os/2 app before, this is the
   first. Cromtag/2 is written in rexx, which there's really lousy
   online documentation for, and I have no written documentaion. *G*

   Anyway, to run it, it's the same as cromtag for dos... You use either
   the 'spellcheck', 'encrypt', or 'sign' option with timEd version 1.10 or
   greater. Put cromtag.ini, cromtag2.exe, and tag.lin in the same
   directory as timEd. tag.lin is just a generic tagline file that I took
   from some other guys tagline program, but your tagline file must be
   named tag.lin

   For the sake of this document, I'll use the 'spellcheck' option in
   timed.cfg:

   EXESPELL CROMTAG2

 - To run the thing... use a text editor, and modify cromtag.ini to the
   following format:

   Line #1 - your name goes on this line
   Line #2 - either 'on' or 'off', this is for the 'bragline'.
   Line #3 - number of lines per screen

   The second entry means nothing at this point, but it must be
   there. I may eliminate it altogether.

   Now you're ready to go, just make sure that you choose the 'spellcheck'
   option, (or whatever special option you put it under) and it should work
   out just fine.

Monday, June 10th

 - I added the 'mood2.exe' to the archive. When I got home from work, I
   decided to take cromtag and slice it up to make the mood thingy work. I
   just deleted about half the lines out of cromtag, and five minutes later
   mood2 was here, seems to work okay, just remember that you have to have
   a textfile called 'mood.lin' in the same directory...

   I put them both in a command file for testing, and I'll leave it that
   way on my own machine, I suppose. I called it 'crom.cmd', and it simply
   looks like:

      cd\timed
      cromtag2
      mood2

   That's it... I don't have to insert either a tagline or a mood kludge,
   just answer 'no' to 'do you want to see the list again'

Monday, June 10th (again... *G*)

 - I did the Cromline/2 file the same way... Run it as you would the
   Cromtag/2 utility. My timed.cfg file now looks like:

      EXESPELL CROM.CMD

   where 'crom.cmd' looks like:

      cd\timed
      cromlin2
      cromtag2
      mood2

Wednesday, June 12th (My 37th birthday, hehe...)

 - When I got home today, I made the Csteal/2 program, which is the tagline
   stealing program. As far as I can tell, this is now the complete suite
   of stuff that the original Crom utilities for dos has. This rexx thing
   has been fun, but... it's fairly simple and besides, my wife said that I
   can purchase a new language when I decide which one I want. *G*

   Refer to the cromtag.doc file for instructions to use csteal/2


Enjoy -
Dana