Thank you for your interest in Source View V3.4a. This file is the latest addendum for the current release. 1. What's new in Source View V3.4a? 1a. Find/Replace can now pick the current word or the mark text as the default search text. 1b. Adopted the Windows convension that by pressing the Delete key immediately after marking a text block, the text block is deleted. 1c. Save All Files now automatically save modified files if any. Otherwise, it prompts to confirm to save all files regardless. 1d. Source View no longer issue warning "Undo disabled" for Delete Block [Ctrl K Y]. Also, Append to Clip- board no longer prompts for "Delete after append" and always deletes the text block after appending it to the clipbard. 1e. My email address has been changed. Please use the following addresses: michaelc@hotmail.com or michaelc@luckman.com 1f. Version 3.4a is an interim release with a limited set of feature enhancements. The upcoming version 3.5 will include new features such as reusable marcos and pseudo-file name for command-line interface. 2. Even though a lot of the features in Source View are designed for programmers, you can also use it as an advance text editor. Another good way of using the editing power of Source View is software integration. Many programs allow users to designate an editor replacement. For example: 2a. The 1Word editor in XTGOLD can edit only one file no larger than 64K. You can designate Source View as a replacement in the configuration (Alt-F10) under item "Editor program:". 2b. The PCEdit in ProComm Plus also has the same limitation and can be replaced by Source View in SETUP UTILITY (Alt-S) under item FILE/PATH Options. The QLEdit in QuickLink II/Fax can be replaced in a similar manner. 2c. The default editor in FoxPro can be replaced by adding the following line to CONFIG.FP: TEDIT = /0 SV.COM 3. You might know the SysEdit program in Windows 3.1 which automatically opens the four system files for DOS and Windows. Here is a tip on how you can do it in DOS with Source View: 3a. Create a one-line batch file SYSED.BAT as follows: @SV C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM.INI C:\WINDOWS\WIN.INI C:\AUTOEXEC.BAT C:\CONFIG.SYS 3b. Place both SYSED.BAT and SV.COM in one of your directories included in your PATH. 3c. At any DOS prompt, type SYSED . 4. All Source View opened files must fit in conventional memory. Therefore, the total size of all open files can not exceed 640K. The maximum number of open files is only subject to memory availability. Source View works fine in the DOS Window of Windows 3.x. Further, the Paste function in the system menu (Edit) of the DOS Window also works well, provided that the Indent Mode must be turned off to allow correct pasting. Using this function, the Source View Editor can receive any text contents from the Windows clipboard. Certain video cards' Windows 3.x drivers were improperly written such that they cause Windows to report error message "Application cannot access video memory..." when running Source View in a DOS Window. For example, most video cards using Cirrus Logic chipsets, including most Dell computers with integrated local bus video cards, exhibit such problem. A workaround to this problem is as follows: in the coresponding PIF file (DOSPRMPT.PIF, _DEFAULT.PIF or SV.PIF), select the "Low Graphics" radio button in the Video Memory section; check the "Retain Video Memory" checkbox in the Display Options section (in the Advanced dialog). 5. A number of bugs in V3.3x were fixed: 5a. If undo fails due to insufficient memory, undo will be permanently disabled. 5b. After renaming and modifying a read-only file, undo fails after the last modification is undone. 6. Since the first shareware version (V3.0i) of Source View published in 1993, the response I received has been minimum. It is obvious to me that the golden age of DOS text mode software has come and gone. I have decided that V3.x is the last version of Source View for DOS. A 32-bit version of Source View for Windows is currently under development. It is written in C++, and I plan to offer it in two parts: one is the Source View Editor Core which includes all editing functions in DLL or OBJ/LIB form, along with complete documentations; the second part is the front end GUI based on the Microsoft Foundation Class, complete with all source code and resources. I have selected the SimTel Software Repository as the primary release site for current and future versions of Source View. Other shareware publishing channels that I use include PC-SIG Library and JCS Marketing (now owned by OWOBOPTE Industries, Inc.). Publisher: SimTel Software Repository FTP site: ftp.coast.net (anonymous) Directory: SimTel/msdos/editor File name: sv34a.zip Publisher: PC-SIG Library Address: 5018 S Price Road Tempe AZ. 85282-7445 Phone: Fax: Publisher: JCSM Shareware Collection Address: OWOBOPTE Industries Inc. 3101 Sibley Memorial Hwy. Eagan, MN. 55121 Phone: (612)686-0405 Fax: (612)686-0312 If you have any feedback, feel free to write to me via email "michaelc@hotmail.com" or "michaelc@luckman.com", or by regular mail: Michael W. Chen 11309 Elmcrest Street El Monte, CA. 91732 U.S.A.